Day: September 7, 2013

CommonMan SQL Injection

Sites powered by CommonMan Technologies suffer from a remote SQL injection vulnerability. Note that this finding houses site-specific data…….


UK investor throws £14.8m at firm that makes UNFORGEABLE 2-cent labels

Slurps 13% of shares from printed electronics bods……


Unmanned NASA Rocket Lifts Off From Wallops Island, On Way To Moon

A moon-bound NASA rocket was launched successfully Friday evening from Virginia’s Wallops Island. The launch was visible over a wide stretch of the east coast; YouTube videos are beginning to show up. The robotic probe, to study lunar dust, is the first rocket launched into outer space from the Virginia launch site…….


MIT’s Inflatable Antennae Could Boost Small Satellite Communications

coondoggie writes “Researchers at the Massachusetts’s Institute of technology say they have developed an antenna for small satellites (known as cubesats) that can fold into a compact space and inflate when in orbit. The inflatable antenna lets a CubeSat transmit data back to Earth at a distance seven times farther than that of existing CubeSat…


Large organizations are buying into PaaS cloud services

PaaS isn’t just for startups — it’s being widely adopted among larger organizations seeking more uniform and faster access to development and middleware solutions…….


NASA probe takes off to solve moon dust mystery

What was responsible for the eerie lunar glow reported by the crew of Apollo 17? The LADEE probe is on its way to the moon to find out…….


Sophos Web Protection Appliance Command Injection

Core Security Technologies Advisory – Sophos Web Protection Appliance versions 3.7.9 and earlier, 3.8.1, and 3.8.0 suffer from multiple OS command injection vulnerabilities…….


Android Malware Spotted Hitching A Ride On Mobile Botnet

… Read more http://packetstormsecurity.com/news/view/23034/Android-Malware-Spotted-Hitching-A-Ride-On-Mobile-Botnet.html


Most Tor Keys May Be Vulnerable To NSA Cracking

Ars Technica reports that security researcher Rob Graham of Errata Security, after analyzing nearly 23,000 Tor connections through an exit node that Graham controls, believes that the encryption used by a majority of Tor users could be vulnerable to NSA decryption: “About 76 percent of the 22,920 connections he polled used some form of 1024-bit…


Google accelerates encryption project

Google steps up the pace on an encryption plan to protect information in transit between its data centers…….