Yahoo Includes Private Key in Source File For Axis Chrome Extension

Yahoo on Wednesday launched a new browser called Axis and researchers immediately discovered that the company had mistakenly included its private signing key in the source file, a serious error that would allow an attacker to create a malicious, signed extension for a browser that the browser wil...

Nine Percent of Websites May be Malicious

Just fewer than 10 percent of websites serve some sort of malicious purpose, with an additional nine percent of sites being characterized as “suspicious” by Zscaler in a new research report. Zscaler ran 27,000 website URLs through a tool they developed to assess the security of websites and give...

Updated: IE6 Market Share Dips Below 1% in US. Microsoft Celebrates

Recent data shows that the share of Web traffic in the U.S. that’s being viewed on the troubled Internet Explorer Version 6 browser has finally dropped beneath 1%, and nobody is happier about it than parent company, Microsoft, which launched a program to eradicate IE6 back in March, 2011. In a bl...

TDSS Rootkit and DNSchanger: An Unholy Alliance

The TDSS rootkit has proven to be more pliable and adaptable than a campaigning politician, and attackers have used it in various forms for the last three or four years for all sorts of different attacks. It shows up in drive-by downloads, targeted attacks and just about everything in between, an...

DUQU – Another Stuxnet in the Making ?

DUQU – Another Stuxnet in the Making ? Article by : Nidhi Rastogi is a Cyber security professional based in New York. Article shared from THE HACKER NEWS magazine - November Edition. You can download Complete Magazine here. Barely a year into discovering Stuxnet, the world recently saw its powerf...

Firefox Java update ready to stop BEAST attacks

Firefox Java update ready to stop BEAST attacks Firefox developers searching for a way to protect users against a new attack that decrypts sensitive web traffic are seriously considering an update that stops the open-source browser from working with Oracle's Java software framework. Johnath, the...

Firefox Java update ready to stop BEAST attacks

Firefox Java update ready to stop BEAST attacks Firefox developers searching for a way to protect users against a new attack that decrypts sensitive web traffic are seriously considering an update that stops the open-source browser from working with Oracle's Java software framework. Johnath, the...

Blue Coat Reporter - Directory Traversal

Exploit Title: Blue Coat Reporter Unauthenticated Directory Traversal Author: nitr0us / http://twitter.com/nitr0usmx Software Link: http://www.bluecoat.com/products/reporter Version: 9.2.x - 9.1.x Tested on: Windows Server 2003 Standard Blue Coat Reporter Unauthenticated Directory Traversal...

Session fixation

Pentaho BI Server 1.7.0.1062 and earlier includes the session ID JSESSIONID in the URL, which allows attackers to obtain it from session history, referer headers, or sniffing of web traffic...

CVE-2009-5101

Pentaho BI Server 1.7.0.1062 and earlier includes the session ID JSESSIONID in the URL, which allows attackers to obtain it from session history, referer headers, or sniffing of web traffic...

One Third of Drug-Related Searches Lead to Illicit Pharmacy Sites

Researchers at the University of Cambridge will present evidence of what they say is wide spread manipulation of search results that direct unwitting Web surfers to dodgy and illicit online pharmacy sites. The research, which will be presented at the 20th USENIX Security Symposium in San Francisc...

Report: Web Applications Attacked Every Two Minutes

Web applications are attacked every two minutes and at some times can experience upwards to 25,000 attacks an hour according to a report published by security firm Imperva today. As part of its continuing Hacker Intelligence initiative, Imperva’s Application Defense Center ADC released their Web...

Geek.com Hacked, Infects Visitors with Malware !

Geek.com Hacked, Infects Visitors with Malware ! Security researchers from cloud security provider Zscaler warn that technology website geek.com was compromised and many of its pages are executing drive-by download attacks against visitors. Geek.com is one of the oldest technology news websites...

CVE-2011-1499

acl.c in Tinyproxy before 1.8.3, when an Allow configuration setting specifies a CIDR block, permits TCP connections from all IP addresses, which makes it easier for remote attackers to hide the origin of web traffic by leveraging the open HTTP proxy server...

CVE-2011-1499

acl.c in Tinyproxy before 1.8.3, when an Allow configuration setting specifies a CIDR block, permits TCP connections from all IP addresses, which makes it easier for remote attackers to hide the origin of web traffic by leveraging the open HTTP proxy server...

CVE-2011-1499

acl.c in Tinyproxy before 1.8.3, when an Allow configuration setting specifies a CIDR block, permits TCP connections from all IP addresses, which makes it easier for remote attackers to hide the origin of web traffic by leveraging the open HTTP proxy server...

CVE-2011-1499

acl.c in Tinyproxy before 1.8.3, when an Allow configuration setting specifies a CIDR block, permits TCP connections from all IP addresses, which makes it easier for remote attackers to hide the origin of web traffic by leveraging the open HTTP proxy server...

CVE-2011-1499

Affected software: Tinyproxy (before 1.8.3). Root cause: ACL configuration with CIDR in acl.c permits TCP connections from any IP, effectively making the proxy open. Impact: potential anonymization of traffic as the proxy can be used to hide origin. Remediation: upgrade to Tinyproxy 1.8.3 or appl...

Hackers Insert Rogue Content on Al Jazeera Arabic Website !

Al-Jazeera said that hackers have managed to bring the rogue content to some of its Arabic website for ads aimed at discrediting the objectivity of its coverage of Egyptian protests. "Hackers have managed to bring the portion of the advertising instead ajjazeera.net distort the network news...

Facebook Owned 42% of Egyptian Web Traffic Before Blackout

How important a role did Facebook play in the popular revolution that swept Egypt last week? According to data from security firm zScaler: it was very important. Fully 42% of the country’s Web surfing on January 27, the day before Egypt’s main ISPs abruptly severed ties to the Internet. Activity ...