Researchers Exploit Cloud Browsers to do Anonymous, Large-Scale Computing

Researchers from two U.S. universities have created a way to anonymously use cloud-based Web browsers to perform large-scale computing tasks – a feat that also demonstrates how hackers might secretly harness massive computing power to launch attacks. Using the MapReduce technique developed by...

[ExploitShield Browser Edition] Forget about browser vulnerabilities

ExploitShield Browser Edition protects against all known and unknown 0-day day vulnerability exploits, protecting users where traditional antivirus and security products fail. It consists of an innovative patent-pending vulnerability-agnostic application shielding technology that prevents malicio...

Aladdin Knowledge System Ltd - PrivAgent.ocx ChooseFilePath Buffer Overflow

Aladdin Knowledge System Ltd - PrivAgent.ocx ChooseFilePath Buffer Overflow //Messagebox jsle var MessageBox = unescape '%ue9be%uac66%udb2b%ud9c2%u2474%u58f4%uc931%u3fb1%uc083%u3104%u1070%u7003%u0b10'+ '%u7593%u50c0%uf285%u9233%u2907%u2d89%u0459%u5a8a%ua6e8%u2ad8%u4c07%ucea8%u149c'+...

Adobe Shockwave 11.6.7.637 contains multiple exploitable vulnerabilities

Overview Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.7.637 and earlier versions on the Windows and Macintosh operating systems contain critical vulnerabilities that can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Adobe Macromedia Shockwave Player is...

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...

Billions of Windows Users Affects with Java Vulnerability

Researchers at Security Explorations disclosed a new vulnerability in Java that could provide an attacker with control of a victim's computer. The researchers have confirmed that Java SE 5 – Update 22, Java SE 6 – Update 35, and Java SE 7 Update 7 running on fully patched Windows 7 32-bit operati...

CRIME Attack Uses Compression Ratio of TLS Requests as Side Channel to Hijack Secure Sessions

The new attack on TLS developed by researchers Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong takes advantage of an information leak in the compression ratio of TLS requests as a side channel to enable them to decrypt the requests made by the client to the server. This, in turn, allows them to grab the user’s logi...

Mozilla: Multiple Use-after-free issues (MFSA 2012-58)

Use-after-free vulnerability in the PresShell::CompleteMove function in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of servic...

As a JIRA System Administrator, I can instruct web browsers to not allow saving a user's password in the various login options, so that unauthorized users can not access the system.

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Cloud. Using JIRA Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-29447. panel In some organisations, as part of a set of security requirements, it is required for compliant applications, to disallow users ...

Several vulnerabilities found in IcedTea-Web

The IcedTea project team reports: CVE-2012-3422: Use of uninitialized instance pointers An uninitialized pointer use flaw was found in IcedTea-Web web browser plugin. A malicious web page could use this flaw make IcedTea-Web browser plugin pass invalid pointer to a web browser. Depending on the...

JVN#90389651: Multiple web browsers vulnerable in processing Tranfer-Encoding header

Multiple web browsers contain a vulnerability in processing the Transfer-Encoding header. When viewing a malicious web site through a proxy server, part of the HTTP response may be misidentified as a response from a different server. Impact An arbitrary script may be executed on the user's web...

Black Hat: Phishing E-Mail Scare A False Alarm

The annual Black Hat Briefings hacker conference got off to a rocky start Sunday after thousands of registered attendees received a fishy smelling “account password reset” e-mail that contained a suspicious URL. But a message from conference organizers hours later said the errant e-mail was no...

RedHat Update for icedtea-web RHSA-2011:1441-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

BlackHole Exploit Kit Gets New Domain-Generation Algorithm

Nothing is more frustrating than spending days or weeks compromising dozens of Web sites and setting up your network of malicious redirects and then finding out that someone has screwed it all up by taking down one of your infected sites. Luckily, the crew behind the BlackHole exploit kit has...

Senate Committee to Discuss Do Not Track at Key Hearing

The dram surrounding the Do Not Track specification and its implementation by browser manufacturers is set to continue on Thursday when the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing to discuss whether the proposed specification is strong enough or has been weakened by the digital advertising...

libpng: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libpng is a standard library used to process PNG Portable Network Graphics images. It is used by several programs, including web browsers and potentially server processes. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libpng: The “embeddedprofilelen” function in pngwutil...

CSNC-2012-004 Generic XSS in AdNovum nevisProxy

COMPASS SECURITY ADVISORY http://www.csnc.ch/en/downloads/advisories.html Product: NevisProxy Vendor: AdNovum CVD ID: CSNC-2012-004 Subject: Cross-site scripting XSS within 302 Redirections Risk: High Effect: Remotely exploitable Author: Alexandre Herzog [email protected] Date: 02/23/2012...

Top Web Browsers Vulnerable To Rogue Download Vulnerability

Security researcher and Google employee Michal Zalewski is warning of a potentially serious security hole that affects the three major Web browsers, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google’s Chrome browser and that could make it easy for attackers to push malicious downloads from domains other than...

Browsers Browsers - Navigation Download Trick

Browsers Browsers - Navigation Download Trick Another moderately interesting tidbit, I guess... It is an important and little-known property of web browsers that one document can always navigate other, non-same-origin windows to arbitrary URLs. Perhaps more interestingly, you can also navigate...

Browser Navigation Download Trick

Another moderately interesting tidbit, I guess... It is an important and little-known property of web browsers that one document can always navigate other, non-same-origin windows to arbitrary URLs. Perhaps more interestingly, you can also navigate third-party documents to resources served with...