Connecting the Dots Between Cookies and Identities

A team of computer science engineers from Princeton have released a paper that explains how an adversary with a passive presence on a network or Internet backbone could track individuals by observing HTTP cookies. The motivation for the project was news in December that the National Security Agen...

CVE-2014-0129

Moodle 2.5.x (before 2.5.5) and 2.6.x (before 2.6.2) are affected by CVE-2014-0129: badges/mybadges.php does not correctly track the user whom a badge was issued to, allowing remote authenticated users to modify the visibility of an arbitrary badge via unspecified vectors. The issue is limited to...

Microsoft Says Google Bypassing Users' IE Privacy Settings

The relations among Microsoft, Apple and Google, which are testy in the best of circumstances, are being pressured even more of late as the controversy surrounding Google’s actions with cookies and user tracking grows. In the latest installment, Microsoft has said that it has found that Google “i...

Evercookie Creator: FTC Cookie Inquiry Would Be Too Narrow

Samy Kamkar has always been prescient. He first gained notoriety by showing how nascent social networks like MySpace could be used to spread malware rapidly among a population of millions now billions of users. His worm for MySpace, dubbed the ‘Samy Worm’ earned him a visit from law enforcement...

CVE-2010-3804

The JavaScript implementation in WebKit in Apple Safari before 5.0.3 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.6 and Windows, and before 4.1.3 on Mac OS X 10.4, uses a weak algorithm for generating values of random numbers, which makes it easier for remote attackers to track a user by predicting a value, a...

Sql injection

The JavaScript implementation in WebKit in Apple Safari before 5.0.3 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.6 and Windows, and before 4.1.3 on Mac OS X 10.4, uses a weak algorithm for generating values of random numbers, which makes it easier for remote attackers to track a user by predicting a value, a...

UBUNTU-CVE-2010-3804

The JavaScript implementation in WebKit in Apple Safari before 5.0.3 on Mac OS X 10.5 through 10.6 and Windows, and before 4.1.3 on Mac OS X 10.4, uses a weak algorithm for generating values of random numbers, which makes it easier for remote attackers to track a user by predicting a value, a...

WebKit - Insufficient Entropy Random Number Generator (2)

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44952/info WebKit is prone to a random-number-generator weakness. Attackers can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user into visiting a malicious webpage. Successful attacks will allow attackers to track user sessions and obtain personal...

CVE-2010-3171

The Math.random function in the JavaScript implementation in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.10 through 3.5.11, 3.6.4 through 3.6.8, and 4.0 Beta1 uses a random number generator that is seeded only once per document object, which makes it easier for remote attackers to track a user, or trick a user into acti...

Display Last-Login-Date for the User

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Cloud. Using JIRA Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-21933. panel Dear Atlassian! I don't know whether a ticket like this already exits or was solved, but I couln't find any. We would like to...

FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (99858b7c-7ece-11df-a007-000f20797ede)

Mozilla Project reports : MFSA 2010-33 User tracking across sites using Math.random MFSA 2010-32 Content-Disposition: attachment ignored if Content-Type: multipart also present MFSA 2010-31 focus behavior can be used to inject or steal keystrokes MFSA 2010-30 Integer Overflow in XSLT Node Sorting...

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2010-33

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2010-33 Title: User tracking across sites using Math.random Impact: Low Announced: June 22, 2010 Reporter: Amit Klein Products: Firefox, SeaMonkey Fixed in: Firefox 3.6.4 Firefox 3.5.10 SeaMonkey 2.0.5 Description Security researcher Amit Klein reported that i...

User tracking across sites using Math.random() — Mozilla

Security researcher Amit Klein reported that it was possible to reverse engineer the value used to seed Math.random. Since the pseudo-random number generator was only seeded once per browsing session, this seed value could be used as a unique token to identify and track users across different web...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2010-33 User tracking across sites using Math.random MFSA 2010-32 Content-Disposition: attachment ignored if Content-Type: multipart also present MFSA 2010-31 focus behavior can be used to inject or steal keystrokes MFSA 2010-30 Integer Overflow in XSLT Node Sorting...

CVE-2009-2198

Apple GarageBand before 5.1 reconfigures Safari to accept all cookies regardless of domain name, which makes it easier for remote web servers to track users...

CVE-2009-1696

WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0, iPhone OS 1.0 through 2.2.1, and iPhone OS for iPod touch 1.1 through 2.2.1 uses predictable random numbers in JavaScript applications, which makes it easier for remote web servers to track the behavior of a Safari user during a session...

Update Protections against Recent Malware Threats (22-Mar-09)

The update includes new protections against 2 recent malware threats:iWonBar - iWonBar is a toolbar the hijacks the browser. It alters the Internet Explorer settings unexpectedly, tracks the user web activities and hijacks the user searches to its controlling server...

Session fixation

The Math.random function in the JavaScript implementation in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.10 and 3.6.x before 3.6.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.5, uses a random number generator that is seeded only once per browser session, which makes it easier for remote attackers to track a user, or trick a...

CVE-2008-5913

The Math.random function in the JavaScript implementation in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.10 and 3.6.x before 3.6.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.5, uses a random number generator that is seeded only once per browser session, which makes it easier for remote attackers to track a user, or trick a...

CVE-2008-5913

The Math.random function in the JavaScript implementation in Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x before 3.5.10 and 3.6.x before 3.6.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.5, uses a random number generator that is seeded only once per browser session, which makes it easier for remote attackers to track a user, or trick a...