Craigslist Back Online Following DNS Hijack

The popular classifieds website Craigslist is back online today following a DNS attack that forced it offline for several hours Sunday evening. According to a blogpost Sunday night by Craigslist’s CEO Jim Buckmaster, DNS records maintained at one of Craigslist’s domain registrars were compromised...

Updated boinc-client packages fix security vulnerability

Multiple stack overflow flaws were found in the way the XML parser of boinc-client, a Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing BOINC client for distributed computing, performed processing of certain XML files. A rogue BOINC server could provide a specially-crafted XML file that, when...

Monitor Networks for Rogue DHCP servers – DHCPSnoop

Monitor Networks for Rogue DHCP servers DHCPSnoop will listen on a network interface for DHCP replies from it’s own DHCP requests and any other requests it can see during the runtime. It will then verify the DHCP response parameters that are returned against the settings in it’s configuration fil...

Hackers Can Steal $999,999.99 from Visa Contactless Payment Cards

Security researchers from Newcastle University in the UK have found a way to steal larger amounts of money from people's pockets using just a mobile phone, due to a security glitch Visa’s contactless payment cards. Contactless payment cards use a cryptoprocessor and RFID technology to perform...

[CVE- Requested][Vembu Storegrid - Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities]

Advisory Overview Multiple vulnerabilities exist in the Vembu Storegrid Backup and Disaster Recovery solution affecting both the client and server software see Additional Information section include but are not limited to reflected XSS, source code/sensitive information disclosure, privilege...

DAWIN - Distributed Audit & Wireless Intrusion Notification

DA-WIN is the end of the manual PCI wireless scan DA-WIN provides an organisation a continuous wireless scanning capability that is light touch and simple. It utilises compact and discreet sensors that can easily be deployed reducing the total cost of protection and simplifying the effort require...

Fake Cell Phone Towers Could Be Intercepting Your Calls

A notable number of cell phone towers around the United States are rogue that, according to latest report, could spoof legitimate towers and intercept calls. The research carried out by ESD America, a defense and law enforcement technology firm based in Las Vegas, shows that a rogue cell phone...

New Firefox 32 Adds Protection Against MiTM Attack and Rogue Certificates

Good news for Firefox lovers! The Mozilla Foundation has introduced a bunch of new features in Firefox to improve browser security with the launch of Firefox 32, now available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android platforms. The new version of Firefox makes the browser even more competitive among...

SAMHAIN v3.1.2 - File Integrity Checker / Host-Based Intrusion Detection System

The Samhain host-based intrusion detection system HIDS provides file integrity checking and log file monitoring/analysis , as well as rootkit detection, port monitoring, detection of rogue SUID executables, and hidden processes. Samhain been designed to monitor multiple hosts with potentially...

Beginner's error: import function of Windows Mail executes rogue program C:\Program.exe with credentials of other account

Hi @ll, the import function of Windows Mail executes a rogue program C:Program.exe with the credentials of another account, resulting in a privilege escalation! 1. Fetch http://home.arcor.de/skanthak/download/SENTINEL.EXE and save it as C:Program.exe 2. Start Windows Mail part of Windows Vista an...

Windows Mail Rogue Program.exe Execution

Hi @ll, the import function of Windows Mail executes a rogue program C:\Program.exe with the credentials of another account, resulting in a privilege escalation! 1. Fetch and save it as C:\Program.exe 2. Start Windows Mail part of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 3. On the File menu, click...

Microsoft issues Emergency Windows Update to Block Fake SSL Certificates

Today, Microsoft has issued an emergency update for almost all versions of Windows and also for Microsoft devices running Windows Phone 8 and 8.1 to secure users from attacks that abuse the latest issued rogue SSL certificates, which could be used to impersonate Google and Yahoo! websites. A week...

Microsoft Windows 2000 telnet.exe NTLM Authentication Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1683/info By default, the telnet client telnet.exe shipped with Microsoft Windows 2000 utilizes Windows NT Challenge/Response NTLM as an authentication method. When establishing a connection to a host, the telnet client...

Rogue 5.3 - Local Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5837/info Rogue is a game included with BSD distributions including FreeBSD and NetBSD. By passing an overly long value when restoring a saved game, it is possible for an attacker to corrupt memory. Exploitation of this...

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6.0-4.6.5 (ePowner) - Multiple Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. Exploit Title: McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.6.0-4.6.5 ePowner - Multiple vulnerabilities Date: 20 November 2012 Exploit Author: [email protected] a.k.a. [email protected] Vendor Homepage: http://www.mcafee.com/uk/products/epolicy-orchestrator.aspx Version...

Netscape iCal 2.1 Patch2 iPlanet iCal 'csstart' Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1769/info Netscape's iPlanet iCal application is a network based calendar service built for deployment in organizations which require a centralized calendar system. Certain versions of iCal ship with a vulnerability in...

openSUSE Security Update : dhcpcd (openSUSE-SU-2011:0385-1)

A rogue dhcp server could instruct clients to use a host name that contains shell meta characters. Since many scripts in the system do not expect unusal characters in the system's host name the dhcp client needs to sanitize the host name offered by the server CVE-2011-0996. Note this update is...

openSUSE Security Update : dhcp (openSUSE-SU-2011:0321-1)

A rogue dhcp server could instruct clients to use a host name that contains shell meta characters. Since many scripts in the system do not expect unusal characters in the system's host name the dhcp client needs to sanitize the host name offered by the server CVE-2011-0997. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

openSUSE Security Update : dhcpcd (openSUSE-SU-2011:0352-1)

A rogue dhcp server could instruct clients to use a host name that contains shell meta characters. Since many scripts in the system do not expect unusal characters in the system's host name the dhcp client needs to sanitize the host name offered by the server CVE-2011-0997. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

openSUSE Security Update : dhcp (openSUSE-SU-2011:0320-1)

A rogue dhcp server could instruct clients to use a host name that contains shell meta characters. Since many scripts in the system do not expect unusal characters in the system's host name the dhcp client needs to sanitize the host name offered by the server CVE-2011-0997. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...