AndroidForums.com Hacked, User Credentials Stolen

An online forum for Android fans and developers was compromised and user account details stolen, according to a notice posted online on Tuesday. Phandroid.com, which operates Androidforums.com told users that hackers had breached a back end database that powers Androidforums.com, an online bullet...

DNSChanger Malware : Thousands May Lose Net Access On July 9th July

Thousands May Lose Net Access On July 9th July The warnings about the Internet problem have been splashed across Facebook and Google. Internet service providers have sent notices, and the FBI set up a special website. Thousands of Canadians could be among the hundreds of thousands of people aroun...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: arpwatch-2.1a15-20.fc17

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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: bind-9.8.3-2.P1.fc16

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 ...

Student Suspected in University Hack That Leaked Info of 654K Cornhuskers

Officials at the University of Nebraska suspect a current undergraduate student is behind a hack earlier this month that appears to have spilled the sensitive information of tens of thousands of past and present students. According to a report from the Omaha World-Herald today, Police Chief Owen...

Passive DNS Network Mapper: dnsmap

Passive DNS Network Mapper dnsmap is mainly meant to be used by pentesters during the information gathering/enumeration phase of infrastructure security assessments . During the enumeration stage, the security consultant would typically discover the target company’s IP netblocks, domain names,...

Common Firewall Feature Enables TCP Hijacking Attacks

Attackers using a feature that is common to many firewalls, switches and other networking gear could silently hijack Web sessions on mobile and desktop devices, according to a research paper presented by two Ph.D students from the University of Michigan. The two discovered that so-called TCP...

Skype Vulnerability Exposing User IP Addresses

Skype Vulnerability Exposing User IP Addresses Skype is warning users following the launch of a site devoted to harvesting user IP addresses.The Skype IP-Finder site allowed third-parties to see a user's last known IP address by simply typing in a user name. A script has been uploaded to Github...

dns-check-zone NSE Script

Checks DNS zone configuration against best practices, including RFC 1912. The configuration checks are divided into categories which each have a number of different tests. Script Arguments dns-check-zone.domain the dns zone to check Example Usage nmap -sn -Pn ns1.example.com --script dns-check-zo...

Pastebin Censored ! Anonymous launches AnonPaste - Uncensored

Pastebin Censored ! Anonymous launches AnonPaste - Uncensored Anonymous and the People's Liberation Front have launched a "totally secure and safe alternative" to Pastebin, the site used by the hacktivist collective to dump data recovered from hacks. AnonPaste for people to post uncensored...

Security Concern : Internet Enabled TV can be hacked !

Security Concern : Internet Enabled TV can be hacked ! Is your Internet TV vulnerable to hackers? Internet TVs could be the newest avenue for cybercriminals to infiltrate your home or business. Last year, Researchers at Mocana, a security technology company in San Francisco, recently discovered...

duplicates NSE Script

Attempts to discover multihomed systems by analysing and comparing information collected by other scripts. The information analyzed currently includes, SSL certificates, SSH host keys, MAC addresses, and Netbios server names. In order for the script to be able to analyze the data it has...

Interpol #TangoDown, Suspected 25 Anonymous arrested

Interpol TangoDown, Suspected 25 Anonymous arrested Interpol's Web site www.interpol.int went down Tuesday just hours after the international police agency announced the arrest of 25 suspected members of the hacking collective Anonymous in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain. The authorities in...

Tor Bridge Relay to Bypass Internet Censorship

Internet users in dozens of countries around the world where governments tend to look askance at freedom and civil liberties have come to rely on the Tor network for dependable, anonymous access to the Web. But those governments and some popular websites have caught on to the game and begun to ma...

DNS domain transfer disclosure vulnerability details-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The zone transfer operation refers to a backup server to use from the main server's data to refresh their zone database. This is running the DNS service provides a certain degree of redundancy, its purpose is to prevent the primary domain name server due to an unexpected fault becomes unavailable...

Zulu - Zscaler Malware Scanning Service

Zulu - Zscaler Malware Scanning Service Zscaler has launched a new freE online service called Zulu that can assess the security risk associated with URLs by analyzing the content they point to, as well as the reputation of their corresponding domain names and IP addresses. Zulu allows security...

Hawaii Bill Would Require Internet Data Retention For Two Years

A Hawaiian legislator has introduced a broadly worded data-retention bill that require ISPs and other service providers to retain their customers’ Internet activity records for at least two years. The bill, introduced by state Rep. John Mizuno, does not have any provisions for exclusions or priva...

redis-info NSE Script

Retrieves information such as version number and architecture from a Redis key-value store. Script Arguments creds.service, creds.global See the documentation for the creds library. Example Usage nmap -p 6379 --script redis-info Script Output PORT STATE SERVICE 6379/tcp open unknown | redis-info:...

dns-blacklist NSE Script

Checks target IP addresses against multiple DNS anti-spam and open proxy blacklists and returns a list of services for which an IP has been flagged. Checks may be limited by service category eg: SPAM, PROXY or to a specific service name. Script Arguments dns-blacklist.services string containing a...

DeSopa Firefox Add-On Lets Users Circumvent SOPA Restrictions

As the public debate over the merits and drawbacks of the SOPA bill continues, consumers and privacy advocates already are looking for ways to get around the provisions in the proposed anti-piracy law that they see as unreasonable and oppressive. In one example, a developer has published an...