NetworkManager: Did not honour PolicyKit auth_admin action element by creation of Ad-Hoc wireless networks

GNOME NetworkManager before 0.8.6 does not properly enforce the authadmin element in PolicyKit, which allows local users to bypass intended wireless network sharing restrictions via unspecified vectors...

Anonymous Hacks Booz Allen Hamilton, Nabs Info on 90,000 U.S. Military

The loose hacking collective known as Anonymous resumed its campaign against the U.S. government and companies that do business with it on Monday, releasing a trove of documents from government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. The release of data, believed to be stolen from systems belonging to th...

Pastebin Could Hold Clues To Hack At Your Company

Worried that your organization might be the victim of a targeted attack or data breach? The proof may be right out in the open: posted for the world to see on Pastebin.com, LodgeIT, Pastie.org and other sites according to security expert Lenny Zeltser. Writing on his blog, Zeltser said that...

Financial Services Industry Report Urges Rethink on Malware

BITS, a financial services industry trade group has published a guide to malicious software and cyber crime that finds many industry attempts to fight the problem haven’t worked. The report calls on financial services firms to cooperate more in fighting malware. The Malware Risks and Mitigation...

Interview with Team Inj3ct0r ( 1337day )

Interview with Team Inj3ct0r 1337day Inj3ct0r provides useful information to people who perform penetration testing, IDS signature development, and exploit research. This project was created to provide information on exploit techniques and to create a useful resource for exploit developers and...

Novell Netware AFP Remote Denial of Service

Novell Netware is a network operating system developed by Novell. It provides file sharing and other services such as printing and email. A denial of service vulnerability exists in Novell Netware. An attacker could consistently attack a target system, making it difficult, or impossible, to use t...

Anonymous Leaks 10,000 E-mails of Iranian Government

Anonymous Leaks 10,000 E-mails of Iranian Government A collection of 10,365 e-mails of the Iranian government were leaked by Anonymous OpIran on June 2, 2011. According to members of Anonymous the files were taken after the hacker accessed the Iranian Passport and Visa Office email center. These...

Report: U.S. Needs Cyber Monroe Doctrine

A New Report from a Washington D.C. think tank with ties to the Obama Administration says the U.S. needs to overhaul its cyber security planning and issue a kind of Monroe Doctrine for cyber space to discourage attacks against U.S. interests. The report, “America’s Cyber Future: Security and...

It's Time to Start Sharing Attack Details

With not even half of the year gone, 2011 is becoming perhaps the ugliest year on record for major attacks, breaches and incidents. Lockheed Martin, one of the larger suppliers of technology and weapons systems to the federal government, has become the latest high-profile target of a serious...

Dropbox potential security flaw revealed, could be exploited by hackers !

It seems that information which Dropbox, the popular web-based file-sharing site/service, issued in response to a US Federal Trade Commission complaint, has revealed a potential security flaw that, according to Ray Bryant, CEO of Idappcom, could be exploited by hackers. According to Bryant, after...

Holes in FBI cyber security !!

About a third of the FBI agents working on cyber investigations lack the networking and counterintelligence expertise to investigate national security intrusions, the Justice Department's inspector general concluded in a new report. The report said the FBI's practice of rotating agents among...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: kdenetwork-4.6.2-2.fc15

Networking applications, including: kget: downloader manager kopete: chat client kppp: dialer and front end for pppd krdc: a client for Desktop Sharing and other VNC servers krfb: Desktop Sharing server, allow others to access your desktop via VNC...

XSS in Webmin 1.540 + exploit for privilege escalation

Information -------------------- Name : XSS vulnerability in Webmin Software : All versions prior to and including 1.540 are affected. Vendor Hompeage : http://www.webmin.com Vulnerability Type : Cross-Site Scripting Severity : Medium Researcher : Javier Bassi javierbassi at gmail dot com...

[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: shotwell-0.8.1-3.fc14

Shotwell is a new open source photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It allows you to import photos from your camera, view and edit them, and share them with others...

Description of the cumulative update for Lync Server 2010, Conferencing Server: April 2011

Describes the bug that is resolved in the April, 2011 cumulative update package for Lync Server 2010, Conferencing Server.Summary This article describes the Microsoft Lync Server 2010 issue that is fixed in the cumulative update for Lync Server 2010, Conferencing Server that is dated April, 2011...

Vatican magazine says hackers do God's work !

Computer hackers embody classic Christian virtues, a Vatican publication says, and shouldn't be perceived negatively. In their passionate commitment to creating, and their openness to sharing ideas, hackers see their online exploits as "a form of participation in the 'work' of God in creation,"...

Synergy 1.4 Protocol Cleartext Weakness Proof Of Concept

Exploit Title: Synergy Protocol cleartext weakness PoC Date:April 5th 2011 Author: Sw1tCh Software Link: http://synergy-foss.org/ Version: 1.4 -= Info =- Synergy is Free and Open Source Software that lets you easily share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers, where each computer has...

Easy File Sharing Web Server 5.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Exploit for windows platform in category remote exploits ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Software................Easy File Sharing Web Server Version 5.8 Vulnerability...........Persistent Cross-site Scripting Threat Level............Moderate 2/5...

Easy File Sharing Web Server 5.8 Cross Site Scripting

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Software................Easy File Sharing Web Server Version 5.8 Vulnerability...........Persistent Cross-site Scripting Threat Level............Moderate 2/5 Download................http://www.sharing-file.com/ Disclosure...

Easy File Sharing Web Server 5.8 Authentication Bypass

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Software................Easy File Sharing Web Server Version 5.8 Vulnerability...........Authentication Bypass Threat Level............Serious 3/5 Download................http://www.sharing-file.com/ Disclosure...