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Spam Botnet Gaining Traction
Upping its output of spam by nearly 5 percent in recent weeks, a new botnet called Festi has grabbed the attention of researchers, cracking the list of top 10 most prolific spamming botnets. The botnet has apparently pumped up the volume of spam by recruiting more bots, about 60 percent of which...
Consumers Should Clean Up Their Act on Personal Security
The growing use of social networking sites is leaving PC inadvertently open to identity thieves warned Hugh Thompson, chief security strategist at People Security. Speaking at the RSA Europe Conference, Thompson said that people were unaware just how many clues they left for fraudsters. He said...
Data-sniffing trojans hit Eastern European ATMs
From The Register Dan Goodin Security experts have discovered a family of data-stealing trojans that have burrowed into automatic teller machines in Eastern Europe over the past 18 months. The malware logs the magnetic-stripe data and personal identification number of cards used at an infected...
Europe funds secure operating system research
From IDG News Service Jeremy Kirk A Dutch university has landed a European Research Council grant to continue work on a Unix-type operating system that aims to be more reliable and secure than Linux or Microsoft Windows. The €2.5 million US$3.3 million grant will fund three researchers and two...
Survey: 1/3 of employees would steal sensitive data
From PC Advisor Carrie-Ann Skinner More than one third of employees would steal sensitive company information if they thought they could earn a decent price from the theft, says Infosecurity Europe. Research by the security event organiser revealed that of those willing to steal sensitive data, 6...
Conficker botnet not nearly as large as feared
An analysis of the Conficker peer-to-peer network set up by the latest variant of the worm shows that the size of the network is far smaller than originally thought. Estimates of the size of the botnet have run far into the millions, but analysts at Kaspersky Lab have been observing the network a...
Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.ceo-europe.com
Security researcher GeNkStAr, has submitted on 12/07/2008 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.ceo-europe.com, which at the time of submission ranked 1226307 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 12/07/2008. It is...
Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.yamaha-motor-europe.com
Security researcher cueballr, has submitted on 05/09/2008 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.yamaha-motor-europe.com, which at the time of submission ranked 72237 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 07/09/2008. I...
Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.europe-chat-dating.com
Security researcher Uber0n, has submitted on 04/01/2008 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.europe-chat-dating.com, which at the time of submission ranked 4874618 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 04/01/2008. It...
Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.iadb.org
Security researcher Stacker, has submitted on 02/11/2008 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.iadb.org, which at the time of submission ranked 89873 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 02/07/2009. It is currently...
Solaris finger bug
Hi all: Recently, we monitored a cracker from Eastern Europe, who ran 'finger 9@host' against a Solaris 7 box, and got the following result: Login Name TTY Idle When Where daemon ??? . . . . bin ??? pts/1 Oct 2, 2002 xxx.lbl.gov sys ??? . . . . account1 ??? pts/8 Jul 20, 2000 yyy.lbl.gov account2...
MERCURY/Templates mercury.ASP SQL Injection
MERCURY/Templates mercury.ASP SQL Injection Credit : CodeXpLoder'tq mail : codexploderathotmaildotcom site : Biyosecurity.net,expw0rm.com thx : BiyoSecurityTeam 1- example.com/patch/mercury.asp?pageid=1&newsid=sql methot 1- example.com/templates/mercury.asp?pageid=1&newsid=sql methot...
Microsoft Windows - Animated Cursor .ani Universal Generator
Microsoft Windows - Animated Cursor .ani Universal Generator -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Info: .ANI RIFF Cursors 2007 universal exploit generator Tested on MS Internet Explorer 6.x-7.x, Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista Author: Yag Kohha 10xnGr33tz...
