LinkedIn Asks for Transparency on National Security Letters

LinkedIn on Tuesday joined the fray of Internet companies requesting permission from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to publish data on the number of National Security Letters it receives. Unlike Google, Microsoft and others that have petitioned the FISA court to lift its ban on the...

URL redirect/jump vulnerability explanation-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

0x00 relevant background information Due to the application of more and more needs and other third party interactive applications, as well as in its own internal Application according to a different logic the user will be directed to a different page, for example, a typical login interface is oft...

New Tabbed Browsing Phishing Attack Exploits User Trust

A researcher has developed a new type of phishing attack that takes advantage of the way that browsers handle tabbed browsing and enables an attacker to use a script running in one tab to completely change the content in another tab. The attack, demonstrated by Aza Raskin of Mozilla, could be use...

Apple Safari 4.0.1 - Error Page Address Bar URI Spoofing

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35829/info Apple Safari is affected by a URI-spoofing vulnerability. An attacker may leverage this issue by inserting arbitrary content to spoof a URI presented to an unsuspecting user. This may lead to a false sense of trust because the victim may be...

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1 - Error Page Address Bar URI Spoofing

Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1 - Error Page Address Bar URI Spoofing source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35803/info Mozilla Firefox is affected by a URI-spoofing vulnerability. An attacker may leverage this issue by inserting arbitrary content to spoof a URI presented to an unsuspecting user. This m...

pubcookie-login-server -- cross site scripting vulnerability

Nathan Dors of the Pubcookie Project reports: Multiple non-persistent XSS vulnerabilities were found in the Pubcookie login server's compiled binary "index.cgi" CGI program. The CGI program mishandles untrusted data when printing responses to the browser. This makes the program vulnerable to...

Mozilla Suite/Firefox/Thunderbird - Nested Anchor Tag Status Bar Spoofing

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12798/info Mozilla Suite/Firefox and Thunderbird are reported prone to a URI obfuscation weakness. The issue is reported to manifest when 'Save Link As...' functionality is invoked on an malicious anchor tag. This issue may be leveraged by an attacker to...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - Meta Data Foreign Domain Spoofing

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10248/info A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Internet Explorer that may facilitate certificate spoofing. This issue could aid in attacks which falsify web content to victim users. The cause of the vulnerability is that it is possible to embed...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 56 - JavaScript Interface Spoofing

Microsoft Internet Explorer 56 - JavaScript Interface Spoofing source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3469/info It is reported that Microsoft Internet Explorer may permit aspects of the Internet Explorer interface to be spoofed. This could facilitate numerous attacks against users of the...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5/6 - JavaScript Interface Spoofing

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3469/info It is reported that Microsoft Internet Explorer may permit aspects of the Internet Explorer interface to be spoofed. This could facilitate numerous attacks against users of the browser, including spoofing of both graphical components of the...

Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) permits modification of URL displayed in address bar

Overview A vulnerability exists in Microsoft Internet Explorer which could could enable an attacker to spoof trusted web sites. Description A vulnerability exists in Microsoft Internet Explorer. This vulnerability could enable a web page to display the URL from a different web site in the IE...