Bank Fraud Suspects Net $1M in Citibank Casino Scheme

Fourteen individuals were charged late last week after the Federal Bureau of Investigation, along with the Los Angeles Police Department and the Glendale, Calif. Police Department found they were behind a scheme that extracted more than $1 million from Citibank cash-advance kiosks in Southern...

Researchers found Apache Server-Status Enabled Security Vulnerability in Popular sites

Researchers found Apache Server-Status Enabled on some popular site like php.net , cisco, nba.com, Cloudflare, Metacafe, Ford, yellow.com, and others. For backgorund, there is a Module modstatus in Apache server which allows a server administrator to find out how well their server is performing. ...

Trouble for Borderlands 2 Players

Some XBOX Live users have violated the online gaming platform’s code of conduct by using a malicious application that allowed them to permanently kill off the characters of other players in the popular ‘Borderlands 2’ video game. On a forum run by the game’s software developer Gearbox, a communit...

Malware in your Mouse can act as RAT for Cyber Criminals

Recently we reported about that Symantec provide overview and analysis of the year in global threat activity via its Internet Security Threat Report ISTR, with a exclusive details that 400 million new variants of malware were created in 2011, which is an average of 33 million new variants of...

Citadel Trojan Updates with Dynamic Config Mechanism that Streamlines Fraud Activity

The elusive authors of the Citadel Trojan have released a new version of their banking botnet malware and service. The latest version, the sixth since it debuted in January and dubbed Rain, includes a dynamic configuration mechanism that allows botmasters to inject malicious content to compromise...

Zero-Day Attacks Thrive for Months Before Disclosure

Zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits dominate headlines and most heated information security discussions. In truth, however, there are relatively few of these attacks hitting a small number of hosts, according to new research on the subject. The reason zero days eat up so much bandwidth is becau...

Philippine court suspends Anti Cybercrime law

The Philippine Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended implementation of Republic Act 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act for 120 days, while it decides whether certain provisions violate civil liberties. The law, signed last month, aims to combat Internet crimes such as hacking, identity theft,...

Microsoft Works CVE-2012-2550 Word File Handling Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Works is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in user. Failed exploit attempts will likely result in denial-of-service conditions. Technologies Affected Microsof...

Google Warning about New State Sponsored Attacks

"Warning: We believe state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or computer." From last 3 months Google users were surprised to see this unusual notification at the top of their Gmail inbox, Google home page or Chrome browser. These warnings are not being shown because...

Microsoft Reaches Settlement with Site Linked to Nitol Botnet

Microsoft announced today it’s reached a settlement with the operator of a Chinese Web site whose domain and sub-domains hosted more than 500 kinds of malware, including the Nitol botnet found on brand new computers. In a lawsuit filed two weeks ago by the software giant, Microsoft alleged the...

CVE-2012-4429

Vino 2.28, 2.32, 3.4.2, and earlier allows remote attackers to read clipboard activity by listening on TCP port 5900...

Microsoft VBScript And JScript Scripting Engines Integer Overflow Code Execution Vulnerability

Description Microsoft VBScript and JScript scripting engines are prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability due to an integer-overflow error. Attackers can leverage this issue by enticing unsuspecting users to view a malicious webpage. Successful exploits would allow arbitrary code to run wit...

Microsoft Internet Explorer CVE-2012-2521 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user to view a specially crafted webpage. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in...

Microsoft Internet Explorer Virtual Function Table Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user to view a specially crafted webpage. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in...

Dropbox Blames Breach for Recent Spam Targeting Customers

Over the last few weeks an attacker used a collection of illicitly obtained usernames and passwords to infiltrate a number of Dropbox accounts, including one belonging to a Dropbox employee. The usernames and passwords were stolen from other, third-party websites, Dropbox officials said, finally...

Scientific Linux Security Update : sysstat on SL5.x i386/x86_64

The sysstat package contains a set of utilities which enable system monitoring of disks, network, and other I/O activity. It was found that the sysstat initscript created a temporary file in an insecure way. A local attacker could use this flaw to create arbitrary files via a symbolic link attack...

CVE-2012-3398

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Moodle 1.9.x before 1.9.19, 2.0.x before 2.0.10, 2.1.x before 2.1.7, and 2.2.x before 2.2.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service CPU consumption by using the advanced-search feature on a database activity that has many records...

Design/Logic Flaw

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Moodle 1.9.x before 1.9.19, 2.0.x before 2.0.10, 2.1.x before 2.1.7, and 2.2.x before 2.2.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service CPU consumption by using the advanced-search feature on a database activity that has many records...

CVE-2012-2366

mod/data/preset.php in Moodle 2.1.x before 2.1.6 and 2.2.x before 2.2.3 does not properly iterate through an array, which allows remote authenticated users to overwrite arbitrary database activity presets via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2012-2358

Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.9, 2.1.x before 2.1.6, and 2.2.x before 2.2.3 allows remote authenticated users to bypass an activity's read-only state and modify the database by leveraging the student role and editing database activity entries that already exist...