Geek.com Hacked, Found Hosting Exploit Kit

The security geeks at Geek.com were busy this weekend, after Web security firm zScaler found evidence that an exploit kit was using malicious iframe attacks to try to attack visitors to the company’s Web site, according to a Zscaler report Sunday. A post on the web security firm’s blog indicated...

Popular Sports Site Goal.com Serves Malware

Goal.com, a popular football aka “soccer” for all us Yanks news site was hacked and found serving malware via drive-by-downloads between April 27 and 28, according to a post by Web security firm Armorize. In an analysis of the attack, Armorize researcher Wayne Huang suggests that a hacker...

Step 6: Update and Patch

With your machine disinfected, take a few moments to update your operating system software and any third party applications to their latest and most secure version. Rogue antivirus and scareware programs are usually delivered as drive by downloads spawned by malicious Web sites. These leverage...

BBC music websites get hacked !

THE BBC'S MUSIC WEBSITES have been hacked to stream malware using drive-by downloads for anyone browsing the infected webpages. Hackers set the drive-by malware up at the BBC's 6 Music website and the BBC 1Xtra radio station website. Researchers at the insecurity outfit Websense found the exploit...

BBC Sites Serving Malware

The websites of the BBC’s 6 music and 1Xtra radio stations have been injected with a malicious iframe and are redirecting users to a site serving up malware according to a Websense report Tuesday. The iframe, on both the BBC 6 music and 1Xtra webpages, is loading code from a malicious website fro...

CVE-2011-0450

The downloads manager in Opera before 11.01 on Windows does not properly determine the pathname of the filesystem-viewing application, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site that hosts an executable file...

Code injection

The downloads manager in Opera before 11.01 on Windows does not properly determine the pathname of the filesystem-viewing application, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site that hosts an executable file...

CVE-2011-0450

The downloads manager in Opera before 11.01 on Windows does not properly determine the pathname of the filesystem-viewing application, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site that hosts an executable file...

CVE-2011-0450

Opera before 11.01 on Windows is affected by CVE-2011-0450 due to the downloads manager failing to correctly determine the pathname of the filesystem-viewing application. This can allow a user-assisted remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site that hosts an executable file....

PT-2011-2353

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Opera versions prior to 11.01 Description The issue is related to the downloads manager in Opera, which does not properly determine the pathname of the filesystem-viewing application. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via ...

CVE-2011-0450: Undefined Security Weakness

The downloads manager in Opera before 11.01 on Windows does not properly determine the pathname of the filesystem-viewing application, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site that hosts an executable file...

The wrong executable may be used to display a downloaded file in its folder – Opera Security Advisories

The wrong executable may be used to display a downloaded file in its folder – Opera Security Advisories OPCOM Team | January 28, 2011 Severity Low Affected versions This issue affects Opera for Microsoft Windows. Description Opera’s downloads manager allows users to select a file, and open the...

The wrong executable may be used to display a downloaded file in its folder

Opera's downloads manager allows users to select a file, and open the folder containing that file. This file will be opened using the operating system's file system viewer. In some cases, Opera will use the wrong executable when trying to show the folder view, and that executable may execute code...

100 BitTorrent Users Do Most Illegal Sharing

BitTorrent, the peer to peer file sharing network, has gained a reputation for enabling the masses to share and distribute files. But when it comes to sharing copyrighted content, just 100 users are responsible for most of the content. The findings, published by academic researchers in Spain,...

Web page content can display misleading security information – Opera Security Advisories

Dialogs such as the security information dialog and download dialog are displayed over the top of the webpage content. In some cases, webpage content will be incorrectly displayed on top of the dialogs, or over parts of the dialogs. This content can then display misleading security information,...

Set your Web browsers to "stun"…it's the online holiday shopping season. Here are ten tips for surviving it without getting yourself p4wn3d

Cyber Monday is billed as the biggest online shopping day of the year, with deep discounts from online merchants. But the truth is that your online shopping isn’t anywhere near done now that its passed, any more than your in store shopping is done now that the 3:00 AM Black Friday door buster...

PT-2010-5406

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Free Simple Software version 1.0 Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands. This is achieved via the downloads id parameter in a "download now" action to "index.php". Recommendations For Free Simple Softwa...

Web-Based Malware Doubles from 2009, Likely to Persist in 2011

There’s been a significant uptick in Web-based malware, with infections nearly double those from this time last year, and predictions are that Web based attacks will get worse before they get better. In their Q3 Malware Update, security firm Dasient estimated there were over 1.5 million malicious...

Infected Web sites double in 2010 : A Report

The number of Web sites infected with malware has doubled from a year ago to more than 1.2 million, according to a study released today by Internet security company Dasient. Not only are social-media sites getting targeted, but sites of larger government agencies increasingly are hit, including t...

South Korean UTW CMS Disclosure / Local File Inclusion / CSRF

Exploit Title: South Korean UTW CMS Multiple Vulnerabilities Date: 18.11.2010 Author: Valentin Category: webapps/0day Version: Tested on: CVE : Code : :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 0x1 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: General Information Advisory/Exploit Title = South Korean UTW CM...