Many Flash, Java Users Running Older, Vulnerable Versions

It’s long been known that Java and Flash are favored targets of attackers, thanks to their huge install bases and numerous security issues. And the users who are targeted by these attacks aren’t doing themselves any favors either, as new research shows that 19 percent of business users are runnin...

Warning : Java 6 vulnerable to zero-day exploit; added to Neutrino exploit kit

Hackers are using a new exploit for a bug in the out-of-date but popular Java 6 platform to attack victims, and has been added to a commercially available Neutrino exploit kit. The use of Java 6 still is prevalent, opening up a significant number of users to the threat. F-secure analyst Timo...

Another Java 6 Vulnerability Found in the Wild

Unless you have an Oracle product that requires Java 6 or are paying for support for that version of the platform, you’d seen the last publicly available updates as of February. That doesn’t mean attackers have pushed back from targeting Java 6, and that certainly doesn’t mean that organizations...

Counter.php Redirecting to Sites Peddling Styx Exploit Kit

The Counter.php strain of malware has been spotted in the past redirecting users to a handful of malicious sites and now appears to be leveraging that ability to send victims to websites serving up the Styx exploit kit. According to a post on Securelist today, Vincente Diaz, a researcher with...

New Botnet Campaign 'Fort Disco' Brute-Forcing Thousands of WordPress, Joomla Websites

Password theft has been a growing problem within the security community. Researchers at Arbor Networks have uncovered a botnet called Fort Disco that was used to compromise more than 6000 websites based on popular CMSs such as WordPress, Joomla and Datalife Engine. The Fort Disco botnet is...

New Botnet Campaign 'Fort Disco' Brute-Forcing Thousands of WordPress, Joomla Websites

Password theft has been a growing problem within the security community. Researchers at Arbor Networks have uncovered a botnet called Fort Disco that was used to compromise more than 6000 websites based on popular CMSs such as WordPress, Joomla and Datalife Engine. The Fort Disco botnet is...

Royal Baby Spam Campaign Leads to Black Hole-Infected Site

Everyone loves babies, especially magical royal ones who are destined to pull a sword from a stone. As it turns out, the baby admiring demographic also includes spammers, who are using the current frenzy over the birth of Prince William and Duchess Kate’s baby boy to direct victims to a site...

CVE-2013-2165

ResourceBuilderImpl.java in the RichFaces 3.x through 5.x implementation in Red Hat JBoss Web Framework Kit before 2.3.0, Red Hat JBoss Web Platform through 5.2.0, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform through 4.3.0 CP10 and 5.x through 5.2.0, Red Hat JBoss BRMS through 5.3.1, Red Hat JBo...

CVE-2013-2165

ResourceBuilderImpl.java in the RichFaces 3.x through 5.x implementation in Red Hat JBoss Web Framework Kit before 2.3.0, Red Hat JBoss Web Platform through 5.2.0, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform through 4.3.0 CP10 and 5.x through 5.2.0, Red Hat JBoss BRMS through 5.3.1, Red Hat JBo...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: java-1.5.0-ibm security update

Updated java-1.5.0-ibm packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give...

JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 7u25 (Deployment)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 21 and earlier and 6 Update 45 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Deployment, a different vulnerability than...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : java-1.7.0-openjdk (ELSA-2013-0275)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-0275 advisory. 1.7.0.9-2.3.7.1.0.2.el63 - Increase release number and rebuild. 1.7.0.9-2.3.7.1.0.1.el63 - Update DISTRONAME in specfile 1.7.0.9-2.3.7.1.el63 -...

Oracle Linux 6 : java-1.6.0-openjdk (ELSA-2012-0729)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2012-0729 advisory. 1:1.6.0.0-1.48.1.11.3 - Access gnome bridge jar is forced to have 644 permissions - Resolves: rhbz828751 1:1.6.0.0-1.47.1.11.3 - Modified patch3,...

Oracle Linux 6 : java-1.7.0-openjdk (ELSA-2013-0751)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-0751 advisory. 1.7.0.19-2.3.9.1.0.1.el64 - Update DISTRONAME in specfile 1.7.0.19-2.3.9.1.el6 - updated to updated IcedTea 2.3.9 with fix to one of security fixes -...

IBM GSKit Installed

IBM GSKit, a set of libraries and utilities for SSL communication, is installed on the remote Windows host. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid67230; scriptversion"1.10"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate", value:"2022/10/10";...

IBM GSKit 7.x < 7.0.4.45 / 8.0.14.x < 8.0.14.27 TLS Side-Channel Timing Information Disclosure

The version of IBM Global Security Kit GSKit installed on the remote host is 7.0.x prior to 7.0.4.45 or 8.0.14.x prior to 8.0.14.27. It is, therefore, affected by an information disclosure vulnerability. The Transport Layer Security TLS protocol does not properly consider timing side-channel...

java security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:1014 Updated java-1.6.0-openjdk packages that fix various security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scorin...

Google Adds Phishing, Malware Info to Transparency Report

Google divulged new statistics today about its Safe Browsing program, a service it uses to flag websites it suspects of peddling malware and phishing. According to the numbers, most of the “unsafe website” warnings it pushes to users on Google Search and in browsers, stem from malware and not...

Carberp Source Code Leaked

The source code for the Carberp Trojan, which typically sells for $40,000 on the underground, has been leaked and is now available to anyone who wants it. The leak has echoes of the release of the Zeus crimeware source code a couple of years ago and has security researchers concerned that it may...

RedHat Update for java-1.7.0-openjdk RHSA-2013:0957-01

Check for the Version of java-1.7.0-openjdk OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for java-1.7.0-openjdk RHSA-2013:0957-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or...