Facebook hack exposes contact Information of 6 Million Users

Facebook is alerting its users about a security breach due to a technical glitch, that may have inadvertently exposed the email addresses and telephone numbers of roughly 6 million users. "We recently received a report to our White Hat program regarding a bug that may have allowed some of a...

detect_transparent_proxy

This plugin tries to detect transparent proxies. The procedure for detecting transparent proxies is simple, I try to connect to a series of IP addresses, to the port 80, if all of them return an opened socket, then its the proxy server responding. Plugin type Infrastructure Options This plugin...

finger_bing

This plugin finds mail addresses in Bing search engine. One configurable parameter exist: resultlimit This plugin searches Bing for : "@domain.com", requests all search results and parses them in order to find new mail addresses. Plugin type Infrastructure Options Name | Type | Default Value |...

finger_google

This plugin finds mail addresses in google. Two configurable parameters exist: resultlimit fastsearch If fastsearch is set to False, this plugin searches google for : "@domain.com", requests all search results and parses them in order to find new mail addresses. If the fastsearch configuration...

finger_pks

This plugin finds mail addresses in PGP PKS servers. Plugin type Infrastructure Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated tests, theres always the source code to understand exactly whats under the hood: Plugin...

China Accuses America of Hacking

The predominant narrative among U.S. officials and security experts is that Chinese hackers, allegedly at the behest of their government, are thoroughly compromising the computer networks of American government, defense, and public sector organizations in order to steal any valuable data. What yo...

DNS Amplification Attacks (UDP) - Active Check

A misconfigured Domain Name System DNS server can be exploited to participate in a Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

Scripps Reporters Accused of Hacking Lifeline Data Breach

Investigative reporters for the Scripps news service have been threatened with legal action after informing a telecommunications company that confidential data on tens of thousands of applicants was available on the Internet. The reporters were said to be looking into companies participating in...

FBI sponsored Ragebooter DDoS attack service

A website that can be described as "DDoS for hire" is perfectly legitimate, according to the owner. Malicious sites that offer attack services are not strangers on the Internet, but web sites sponsored by law enforcement is another story altogether. Ragebooter, is one of many sites that accepts...

[PacketFence v4.0] Open Source network access control (NAC)

PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, Free and Open Source network access control NAC solution. Boasting an impressive feature set including a captive-portal for registration and remediation, centralized wired and wireless management, 802.1X support, layer-2 isolation of problematic devices,...

[SpiderFoot v2.0] The Open Source Footprinting tool

SpiderFoot is a free, open-source footprinting tool, enabling you to perform various scans against a given domain name in order to obtain information such as sub-domains, e-mail addresses, owned netblocks, web server versions and so on. The main objective of SpiderFoot is to automate the...

Mozilla Thunderbird < 12.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Mozilla Firefox < 12.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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More Malware Showing Up as Fake SourceForge Web Sites

Malware developers continue to clone SourceForge Web sites that appear to offer the source code for popular gaming software but are actually peddling malicious code tied to the ZeroAccess Trojan. Julien Sobrier, a security researcher for San Jose-based cloud security provider Zscaler, on Tuesday...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: arpwatch-2.1a15-28.fc19

The arpwatch package contains arpwatch and arpsnmp. Arpwatch and arpsnmp are both network monitoring tools. Both utilities monitor Ethernet or FDDI network traffic and build databases of Ethernet/IP address pairs, and can report certain changes via email. Install the arpwatch package if you need...

[IPv6 Toolkit v1.3.4] A security assessment and troubleshooting tool for the IPv6 protocols

A security assessment and troubleshooting tool for the IPv6 protocols. The SI6 Networks’ IPv6 toolkit is a set of IPv6 security/trouble-shooting tools, that can send arbitrary IPv6-based packets. Changelog v1.3.4 IPv6-host tracking support in the scan6 tool. A new tool, address6, to analyze IPv6...

WordPress Sites Targeted by Mass Brute-force Botnet Attack

US-CERT is aware of an ongoing campaign targeting the content management software WordPress, a free and open source blogging tool and web publishing platform based on PHP and MySQL. All hosting providers offering WordPress for web content management are potentially targets. Hackers reportedly are...

(mod_dav_svn): DoS (crash) via LOCK requests against a non-existent URL

The moddavsvn Apache HTTPD server module in Subversion 1.6.0 through 1.6.20 and 1.7.0 through 1.7.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and crash via an anonymous LOCK for a URL that does not exist...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: bind-9.9.2-10.P2.fc18

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an implementation of the DNS Domain Name System protocols. BIND includes a DNS server named, which resolves host names to IP addresses; a resolver library routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS; and tools for verifying that the DNS server ...

Nova: DoS by allocating all Fixed IPs

OpenStack Compute Nova Grizzly, Folsom 2012.2, and Essex 2012.1 does not properly implement a quota for fixed IPs, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service resource exhaustion and failure to spawn new instances via a large number of calls to the addFixedIp function...