Oracle Patches Java Zero Day Vulnerability

Oracle delivered an unusual emergency patch to Java's critical Zero Day vulnerability on Sunday to fix a malicious bug that allowed hackers access to users web browsers. Exploits for the previously undisclosed flaw were being hosted in a number of exploit kits and attacks have already been seen i...

CERT Releases Oracle Java 7 Security Advisory

CERT released Vulnerability Note VU625617 to address a vulnerability in Oracle Java Runtime Environment JRE 7 and earlier that is currently being exploited in the wild. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable systems. US-CERT encourages users and...

US-CERT Alert TA13-010A - Oracle Java 7 Security Manager Bypass Vulnerability

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 National Cyber Awareness System US-CERT Alert TA13-010A Oracle Java 7 Security Manager Bypass Vulnerability Original release date: January 10, 2013 Last revised: -- Systems Affected Any system using Oracle Java 7 1.7, 1.7.0 including Java Platform...

java 7.x -- security manager bypass

US CERT reports: Java 7 Update 10 and earlier versions of Java 7 contain a vulnerability that can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. The Java JRE plug-in provides its own Security Manager. Typically, a web applet runs with a security manager...

New Linux Rootkit Attacks Internet Users

Security researchers have discovered what appears to be an experimental Linux rootkit designed to infect its highly select victims during a classic drive-by website attack. The malware allows hackers to inject code directly in any infected web page. The new malware, discovered on November 13 of...

Researchers Exploit Cloud Browsers to do Anonymous, Large-Scale Computing

Researchers from two U.S. universities have created a way to anonymously use cloud-based Web browsers to perform large-scale computing tasks – a feat that also demonstrates how hackers might secretly harness massive computing power to launch attacks. Using the MapReduce technique developed by...

Adobe Shockwave 11.6.7.637 contains multiple exploitable vulnerabilities

Overview Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.7.637 and earlier versions on the Windows and Macintosh operating systems contain critical vulnerabilities that can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system. Description Adobe Macromedia Shockwave Player is...

Billions of Windows Users Affects with Java Vulnerability

Researchers at Security Explorations disclosed a new vulnerability in Java that could provide an attacker with control of a victim's computer. The researchers have confirmed that Java SE 5 – Update 22, Java SE 6 – Update 35, and Java SE 7 Update 7 running on fully patched Windows 7 32-bit operati...

As a JIRA System Administrator, I can instruct web browsers to not allow saving a user's password in the various login options, so that unauthorized users can not access the system.

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Cloud. Using JIRA Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-29447. panel In some organisations, as part of a set of security requirements, it is required for compliant applications, to disallow users ...

JVN#90389651: Multiple web browsers vulnerable in processing Tranfer-Encoding header

Multiple web browsers contain a vulnerability in processing the Transfer-Encoding header. When viewing a malicious web site through a proxy server, part of the HTTP response may be misidentified as a response from a different server. Impact An arbitrary script may be executed on the user's web...

Black Hat: Phishing E-Mail Scare A False Alarm

The annual Black Hat Briefings hacker conference got off to a rocky start Sunday after thousands of registered attendees received a fishy smelling “account password reset” e-mail that contained a suspicious URL. But a message from conference organizers hours later said the errant e-mail was no...

RedHat Update for icedtea-web RHSA-2011:1441-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

BlackHole Exploit Kit Gets New Domain-Generation Algorithm

Nothing is more frustrating than spending days or weeks compromising dozens of Web sites and setting up your network of malicious redirects and then finding out that someone has screwed it all up by taking down one of your infected sites. Luckily, the crew behind the BlackHole exploit kit has...

Senate Committee to Discuss Do Not Track at Key Hearing

The dram surrounding the Do Not Track specification and its implementation by browser manufacturers is set to continue on Thursday when the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing to discuss whether the proposed specification is strong enough or has been weakened by the digital advertising...

libpng: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libpng is a standard library used to process PNG Portable Network Graphics images. It is used by several programs, including web browsers and potentially server processes. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libpng: The “embeddedprofilelen” function in pngwutil...

Top Web Browsers Vulnerable To Rogue Download Vulnerability

Security researcher and Google employee Michal Zalewski is warning of a potentially serious security hole that affects the three major Web browsers, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google’s Chrome browser and that could make it easy for attackers to push malicious downloads from domains other than...

Browsers Browsers - Navigation Download Trick

Another moderately interesting tidbit, I guess... It is an important and little-known property of web browsers that one document can always navigate other, non-same-origin windows to arbitrary URLs. Perhaps more interestingly, you can also navigate third-party documents to resources served with...

Browser Navigation Download Trick

Another moderately interesting tidbit, I guess... It is an important and little-known property of web browsers that one document can always navigate other, non-same-origin windows to arbitrary URLs. Perhaps more interestingly, you can also navigate third-party documents to resources served with...

Real Networks RealPlayer < 14.0.6.666 (Build 12.0.1.666) Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Apple Issues Update to Prevent Flashback Malware from Infecting Mac OS X Machines

Less than a day after reports began surfacing that the Flashback trojan was hitting Mac OS X machines, Apple today released a fix to stop the latest variant of the password-stealing malware. The update closes numerous vulnerabilities in Java 1.6.029, including a serious hole that allowed an...