RawCap sniffer for Windows released !

RawCap sniffer for Windows released We are today proude to announce the release of RawCap, which is a free raw sockets sniffer for Windows. Here are some highlights of why RawCap is a great tool to have in your toolset: Can sniff any interface that has got an IP address, including 127.0.0.1...

Mega-D: March, 2010

The takedown of Mega-D, also known as Ozdok, was spearheaded by researchers at anti-botnet firm FireEye. The botnet, a byproduct of PC infections linked to the Mega-D Trojan, comprised tens of thousands of machines and was responsible for sending out a large portion of the spam on the Internet–at...

Carberp Trojan Evolves and Advances

Whatever else is said about malware authors, it’s becoming clearer and clearer of late that they are learning from their mistakes and adapting to new defensive tactics at an increasingly rapid rate. The latest example of this is a recently discovered version of the Carberp malware, which now...

Report: IRC Botnets Dying…But Not Dead

Once the most common form of malicious computer network, botnets that use the IRC Internet Relay Chat protocol are going the way of the Brontosaurus, according to a report from Internet security monitoring firm Team Cymru. Under fire from better monitoring of IRC command and control C&C traffic a...

Tracker: SpyEye Not Yet Zeus-Like In Stature

The SpyEye Tracker, a new site that hopes to trace the activity of the budding SpyEye Trojan, went live this week and shows the emerging SpyEye botnet to be global in reach, but still much smaller than the Zeus botnet with which it has merged. SpyEye Tracker has already identified 68 malicious...

Botnet-For-Hire Model Resurfaces in New IMDDOS Botnet

Researchers have identified a new botnet based in China that was openly selling DDoS-for-hire services and had managed to plant roots inside a number of major U.S. ISPs. The botnet, known as IMDDOS, is mostly contained right now and the researchers are working with authorities to locate its...

Some Pushdo Variants Resuming Spam Operations

A few days after the majority of the command-and-control servers belonging to one of the variants of the Pushdo botnet were taken offline, some researchers say that there are indications that portions of the botnet are back to their old tricks, downloading new spam templates for a resumption of...

Researchers Cripple Pushdo Botnet

Researchers have made a huge dent in a major variant of the Pushdo botnet, virtually crippling the network by working with hosting providers to take down about two thirds of the command-and-control servers involved in the botnet. Pushdo for years has been one of the major producers of spam and...

Koobface Worm Doubles C&C Servers in 48 Hours

Yesterday’s shut down of Troyak-as was definitely good news for the whole IT security community. Seeing cybercriminals getting kicked out from the Internet and then trying to get back inside calls for popcorn and soda. But unfortunately, as some botnets struggle, others stay unaffected: Koobface,...

USN-890-5: XML-RPC for C and C++ vulnerabilities

USN-890-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Expat. This update provides the corresponding updates for XML-RPC for C and C++. Original advisory details: Jukka Taimisto, Tero Rontti and Rauli Kaksonen discovered that Expat did not properly process malformed XML. If a user or application linked against Expat...

Fedora Update for kdevelop FEDORA-2007-2985

Check for the Version of kdevelop OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for kdevelop FEDORA-2007-2985 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

Microsoft Windows XP/2000/2003 - Desktop Wall Paper System Parameter Privilege Escalation

// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35120/info Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. Attackers may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with kernel-level privileges. Successful exploits will facilitate the complete compromise of affected...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 661-1 (f2c)

The remote host is missing an update to f2c announced via advisory DSA 661-1. This VT has been deprecated and merged into the VT SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 E-Soft Inc. Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 661-1 (f2c)

The remote host is missing an update to f2c announced via advisory DSA 661-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb6611.nasl 6616 2017-07-07 12:10:49Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 661-1 Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2007 E-Soft Inc...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: kdevelop-3.5.0-4.fc7

The KDevelop Integrated Development Environment provides many features that developers need as well as providing a unified interface to programs like gdb, the C/C++ compiler, and make. KDevelop manages or provides: All development tools needed for C++ programming like Compiler, Linker, automake a...

ESRI ArcSDE 9.0 9.2sp1 - Remote Buffer Overflow

ESRI ArcSDE 9.0 9.2sp1 - Remote Buffer Overflow / Dreatica-FXP crew ---------------------------------------- Target : ESRI ArcSDE 9.0 - 9.2sp1 Site : http://www.esri.com Found by : iDefense, http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/ ---------------------------------------- Exploit :...

ESRI ArcSDE 9.0 - 9.2sp1 Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit

Exploit for unknown platform in category remote exploits ======================================================= ESRI ArcSDE 9.0 - 9.2sp1 Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit ======================================================= / Dreatica-FXP crew ---------------------------------------- Target : ES...

cpp, gcc, libf2c, libgcc, libgcj, libgnat, libobjc, libstdc++ security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0220 Updated gcc packages that fix a security issue and various bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. The gcc packages include C, C++, Java, Fortran 77, Objective C...

Etnus TotalView 5.

Program: Etnus TotalView Version: 5.0.0-4 DESCRIPTION ----------- TotalView is a multiprocess source-level debugger for programs written in the C, C++, and Fortran programming languages. TotalView is part of a suite of programming tools from Etnus, LLC. PROBLEM ------- Failed to install the files...