Weaknesses in CFAA language exposed at Black Hat

The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA can be unsettling even to the most stalwart security researcher. The law, enacted in 1986 and revisited several times since, is still littered with loopholes and nuances that can be leveraged by a prosecutor in a criminal case, or turned against a white hat i...

Solaris Recommended Patch Cluster 6/19 (x86) - Local Privilege Escalation

Solaris Recommended Patch Cluster 6/19 local root on x86 Larry W. Cashdollar 7/3/2013 @larry0 If the system administrator is updating the system using update manager or smpatch multi user mode a local user could execute commands as root. This only affects x86 systems as this code resides under a...

Facebook implementing Advanced HTTPS to minimize NSA Interception

For years the National Security Agency has successfully shielded its surveillance programs from any real public scrutiny. There have been a lot of news stories about NSA surveillance programs following the leaks of secret documents by Edward Snowden. We have learned that the NSA is collecting...

Apple Phishing Scams on the Rise

Apple has one of the more gilded consumer brands and the company spends a lot of time and money to keep it that way. Consumers love Apple. Scammers and attackers do too, though, and security researchers in recent months have seen a major spike in the volume of phishing emails abusing Apple’s bran...

LulzSec hacker Jeremy Hammond pleads guilty to Stratfor attack, could face 10 years in prison

A computer hacker linked to the group known as Anonymous and LulzSec pleaded guilty on Tuesday to breaking into Stratfor, a global intelligence company. Hammond, 28, was arrested last March and charged with hacking into the computers of Stratfor. Jeremy Hammond and other members of AntiSec, stole...

Reporters legally threatened after revealing vulnerability that exposes sensitive data of 170,000 customers

For millions of low income families, the federal government's Lifeline program offers affordable phone service. But an online security lapse has exposed tens of thousands of them to an increased risk of identity theft, after their Social Security numbers, birth dates and other pieces of highly...

SAP SMB Relay Abuse

This module exploits provides several SMB Relay abuse through different SAP services and functions. The attack is done through specially crafted requests including a UNC Path which will be accessing by the SAP system while trying to process the request. In order to get the hashes the...

Malware that turns computers into Bitcoin miners

Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new spam message campaign being transmitted via Skype contains malware capable of using an infected computer to mine for Bitcoins. The malware, identified as Trojan.Win32.Jorik.IRCbot.xkt. Bitcoin is a non-governmental, fully-digital currency based...

PYSEC-2013-44

OpenStack Compute Nova Grizzly, Folsom 2012.2, and Essex 2012.1 does not properly implement a quota for fixed IPs, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service resource exhaustion and failure to spawn new instances via a large number of calls to the addFixedIp function...

AoF, IAA and CSRF vulnerabilities in Question2Answer

Hello 3APA3A! These are Abuse of Functionality, Insufficient Anti-automation and Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerabilities in Question2Answer. This is the second part of vulnerabilities in this web application. ------------------------- Affected products: ------------------------- Vulnerable are...

Multiple vulnerabilities in Chocolate WP theme for WordPress

Hello 3APA3A! I want to warn you about multiple vulnerabilities in Chocolate WP theme for WordPress. This is commercial theme for WP. These are Cross-Site Scripting, Full path disclosure, Abuse of Functionality, Denial of Service and Arbitrary File Upload vulnerabilities. In 2011 I wrote about...

Multiple vulnerabilities in Flash News theme for WordPress

Hello 3APA3A! I want to warn you about multiple vulnerabilities in Flash News theme for WordPress. This is commercial theme for WP from WooThemes. These are Cross-Site Scripting, Full path disclosure, Abuse of Functionality, Denial of Service, Arbitrary File Upload and Information Leakage...

WordPress Flash News theme Multiple Vulnerabilities

Exploit for php platform in category web applications I want to warn you about multiple vulnerabilities in Flash News theme for WordPress. This is commercial theme for WP from WooThemes. These are Cross-Site Scripting, Full path disclosure, Abuse of Functionality, Denial of Service, Arbitrary Fil...

WordPress Flash News XSS / DoS / Path Disclosure / Shell Upload

Hello list! I want to warn you about multiple vulnerabilities in Flash News theme for WordPress. This is commercial theme for WP from WooThemes. These are Cross-Site Scripting, Full path disclosure, Abuse of Functionality, Denial of Service, Arbitrary File Upload and Information Leakage...

WordPress Chocolate WP Theme Multiple vulnerabilities

These are Cross-Site Scripting, Full path disclosure, Abuse of Functionality, Denial of Service and Arbitrary File Upload vulnerabilities. Hello list! I want to warn you about multiple vulnerabilities in Chocolate WP theme for WordPress. This is commercial theme for WP. These are Cross-Site...

WordPress Chocolate Theme XSS / Denial Of Service / Shell Upload

Hello list! I want to warn you about multiple vulnerabilities in Chocolate WP theme for WordPress. This is commercial theme for WP. These are Cross-Site Scripting, Full path disclosure, Abuse of Functionality, Denial of Service and Arbitrary File Upload vulnerabilities. In 2011 I wrote about...

WordPress Dailyedition-mouss Multiple Vulnerabilities

WordPress Dailyedition-mouss theme suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability, XSS, FPD, AoF, DoS, AFU vulnerabilities. Note that this finding houses site-specific data. I want to warn you about multiple vulnerabilities in Daily Edition Mouss theme for WordPress. In 2011 when I wrote about...

New vulnerabilities in MODx Revolution

Hello 3APA3A! I want to warn you about two new vulnerabilities in MODx Revolution. This is addition to previous publication about vulnerabilities in MODx Revolution http://securityvulns.ru/docs28923.html. These are Abuse of Functionality vulnerabilities in MODx related to earlier mentioned Brute...

BF, CSRF, AoF and IAA vulnerabilities in MODx Revolution

Hello 3APA3A! I want to warn you about multiple vulnerabilities in MODx Revolution. These are Brute Force, Cross-Site Request Forgery, Abuse of Functionality and Insufficient Anti-automation vulnerabilities in MODx. It's about 2.x Revolution versions of MODx. In 0.x and 1.x Evolution versions of...

Hackers abusing online Nmap Port Scanning service

Most of you knows the power of Nmap, When used properly, Nmap helps protect your network from invaders. One of the best tool for hackers, penetration testers and Security researchers. Officially Nmap a desktop tool, can be used as web version but should be under some limitations. When someone doe...