Three of the Canadian government’s key departments, including the systems of Canada’s financial nerve centers, have been compromised by China-based hackers, it was learned this week.
But Thursday, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper assured his country that Canada does have a system in place to defend those crucial systems.
The cyber threat at the origin of attacks against Google and others is still at large, but security experts are slowly finding patterns that will reveal the identity of its creator.
Following U.S. Secretary of Defense Hillary Clinton's speech on freedom of access to information and the attacks against Google, the Chinese government responded in an offuscated manner.
Investigations following a mid-december cyber attack on Google's corporate infrastucture led to the finding of multiple major attacks originating from China. Google is now seriously considering to end its activities in the most populated country in the world.
Zero Day Initiative Advisory 12-018 - This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Symantec PCAnywhere. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The flaw exists within the awhost32 component which is used when handling incoming connections. This process listens on TCP port 5631. When handling an authentication request the process copies the user supplied username unsafely to a fixed-length buffer of size 0x108. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code under the context of the SYSTEM account.
The WBR-1310 suffers from an authentication bypass vulnerability that can be exploited by remote
attackers to change administrative settings. Note that this vulnerability can be exploited via CSRF even
if remote administration is disabled.