Twitter Makes HTTPS Default Login Option

Twitter has finally gotten on board the SSL train and made HTTPS the default login option for all of its users who sign in through the Web interface. The company had made secure login an option for users last year but hadn’t made it the default mechanism. On Monday, officials at Twitter said that...

CVE-2010-5084

The cross-site request forgery CSRF protection mechanism in e107 before 0.7.23 uses a predictable random token based on the creation date of the administrator account, which allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that add new users via...

Crack OS X 10.7 Hashes

Added: 07/14/2011 Background This tool attempts to crack the passwords retreived by the "Mac OS X Hash grab" exploit tool. Accounts are cracked using dictionaries/Commonpwlong.txt Limitations An existing macosxhashgrab.out file must exist in the /exploits directory. Platforms Mac OS X...

Dslreports.com hacked, Over 9000 accounts compromised !

Dslreports.com hacked, Over 9000 accounts compromised ! DSL Reports - the information and review site on high speed Internet services which operates over 200 forums - has been hit with a blind SQL injection attack, which resulted in the compromise of at least 9000 accounts. Founder Justin Beech...

iTunes Users Puzzle, Fume Over Account Hacks

Terry Coffey of Anchorage, Alaska, said that he first became aware of a problem with his iTunes account when he received a receipt for a $50 iTunes gift card purchase. Coffey, who says he’s careful with his money, was immediately suspicious and investigated the charge, but couldn’t find any recor...

XSS Vulnerability in Facebook Translations !

Summary The Facebook Translations tool's search feature was vulnerable to a simple reflected XSS attack. How did it work? The Translations tool allows users to perform phrase searches within translations. In this case, when a search query returned 0 results, the script displayed a message "Your...

Ashton Kutcher's Twitter Account Hacked By Geek Activist !

Hey, look: Ashton Kutcher's Twitter account was hacked in the name of Internet justice. Someone broke into his account and tweeted the messages above. Judging from their message, they probably used the notorious "Firesheep" application, which makes it easy for anyone to hijack other people's...

iTunes Users Complain Of Account Hacks

More than six months after reports of wide-scale compromises of accounts at Apple’s popular iTunes online store, there are fresh reports that suggest that the accounts of iTunes users are being used to make fraudulent purchases of music, games and other merchandise. Reports in the Apple forums...

Password Management Site LastPass Sports Security Hole

Web surfers frustrated with the task of managing a forest of user names and passwords have been flocking to LastPass in an effort to simplify. But now a a security researcher says that a security flaw in that company’s Web site could reveal sensitive account details. Mike Cardwell, an independent...

2-step verification, Advanced sign-in security for your Google account !

Has anyone you know ever lost control of an email account and inadvertently sent spam—or worse—to their friends and family? There are plenty of examples like the classic "Mugged in London" scam that demonstrate why it's important to take steps to help secure your activities online. Your Gmail...

Facebook Used Social Authentication To Shield Tunisian Protesters

Faced with the Tunisian government’s efforts to hack the Facebook accounts of protesters, Facebook’s security team stepped up its use of social authentication to help secure protester’s accounts. A new account of the role of the Facebook in aiding widespread protests against the regime in Tunisia...

SSH password weakness

Added: 01/05/2011 CVE: CVE-1999-0502 Background Passwords are the most commonly used method of authenticating users to a server. The combination of a login name and password is used to verify the identity of a user requesting access, and to determine what parts of the server the user has permissi...

Gawker Roadkill? How To Find Out and Recover

CLARIFICATION: This story corrects information concerning the availability of the stolen account names and passwords online. Millions of Web users are waking up to news that broke over the weekend that systems belonging to Gawker Media were hacked and password data on millions of user accounts...

Brute force protection on JIRA 4.1 leaks valid account names

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Cloud. Using JIRA Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-21036. panel The brute force login protection in JIRA only activates when a real user account is accessed. This can be used by an attacker t...

Here's How to Fix Online Banking Fraud

Guest editorial by Roel Schouwenberg Over the last few months, there’s been quite a lot of news chatter around Banker Trojans emptying out online bank accounts of small businesses in the U.S. Today, I was reading one of such stories on Brian Krebs’ site. After reading that story I came across...

Password Strength and Keeping Online Accounts Safe

From Google Online Security Blog Macduff Hughes There’s been some discussion today about the security of online accounts, so we wanted to share our perspective. These are topics that we take very seriously because we know how important they are to our users. We run our own business on Google Apps...

MySQL password weakness

Added: 05/11/2009 Background MySQL is an open-source database software package available for multiple platforms. Problem A MySQL database account has no password or an easily guessed password, allowing a remote attacker to make unauthorized queries. Resolution Set a strong password for all MySQL...

autositephp 2.0.3 - Local File Inclusion / Cross-Site Request Forgery / Edit File

AutositePHP v2.0.3 LFI/CSRF/Edit File Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities + Discovered By SirGod + Greetz : All my friends + Download Script : http://sourceforge.net/projects/autositephp/ + Local File Inclusion PoC 1 : http://target/path/index.php?page=users/Local File Example 1 :...

[waraxe-2008-SA#068] - Sql Injection in vBulletin 3.7.3.pl1

waraxe-2008-SA068 - Sql Injection in vBulletin 3.7.3.pl1 =============================================================================== Author: Janek Vind "waraxe" Date: 17. November 2008 Location: Estonia, Tartu Web: http://www.waraxe.us/advisory-68.html Description of vulnerable software:...

Default Password (rootme) for 'root' Account

The account 'root' on the remote host has the password 'rootme'. An attacker may leverage this issue to gain total control of the affected system. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. account = "root"; password = "rootme"; include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...