The Story of the First Internet Worm

Robert Tappan Morris was the first person convicted by a jury under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986. The story of the worm he created and what happened to him after it was released is a tale of mistakes, infamy, and ultimately the financial and professional success of its author. Read th...

Court Rules in Favor of Kaspersky in Filtering Case

From Wired David Kravets A federal appeals court, in the first decision of its kind, said Thursday that companies providing malware, spyware and adware blocking services are immunized by the Communications Decency Act of 1996 from lawsuits claiming unfair business practices. A three-judge panel o...

Canadian Parliament considers anti-malware law

From Stop Badware Maxim Weinstein The Canadian House of Commons is considering bill C-27 gc.ca, the Electronic Commerce Protection Act. In addition to providing civil penalties for unsolicited commercial e-mail spam and the unauthorized interception of e-mail man in the middle attacks, it provide...

Bad outweighs the good in Senate cybersecurity bill

The Senate bill introduced earlier this month that would make sweeping changes to the way that information security is practiced both in the federal government and the private sector has a number of good elements, but the flaws in the proposed legislation outweight the benefits, writes Steve...

phpOCS <= 0.1-beta3 (index.php act) Local File Inclusion Vulnerability

Exploit for unknown platform in category web applications ====================================================================== phpOCS = 0.1-beta3 index.php act Local File Inclusion Vulnerability ====================================================================== :::::::-. ... ::::::. :::. ;;...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at bec.msoe.edu

Security researcher PaPPy, has submitted on 07/05/2008 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting bec.msoe.edu, which at the time of submission ranked 56477 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 08/05/2008. It is currently...

Joomla Component Acajoom (com_acajoom) SQL Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for unknown platform in category web applications ================================================================== Joomla Component Acajoom comacajoom SQL Injection Vulnerability ================================================================== Joomla Component comacajoom SQL Injection...

CVE-2007-6552

Directory traversal vulnerability in index.php in AuraCMS 2.2 allows remote authenticated users to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. dot dot in the act parameter, possibly involving the news pilih component; as demonstrated by including admin/adminusers.php to bypass a protection...

HP-UX Security Patch : PHSS_32099

X OV ITO7.1X Msg/Act Linux Agent A.07.28 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. if !definedfunc"bnrandom" exit0; include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid26736; scriptversion"1.9"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate",...

HP-UX Security Patch : PHSS_30204

X OV ITO7.1X Msg/Act Linux Agent A.07.23 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. if !definedfunc"bnrandom" exit0; include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid26687; scriptversion"1.9"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate",...

HP-UX Security Patch : PHSS_31006

X OV ITO7.1X Msg/Act Linux Agent A.07.25 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. if !definedfunc"bnrandom" exit0; include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid26719; scriptversion"1.9"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate",...

HP-UX Security Patch : PHSS_29643

X OV ITO7.1X Msg/Act Linux Agent A.07.22 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. if !definedfunc"bnrandom" exit0; include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid26675; scriptversion"1.9"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate",...

CVE-2007-1152

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Pyrophobia 2.1.3.1 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. dot dot in the 1 act or 2 pid parameter to the top-level URI index.php, or the 3 action parameter to admin/index.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third part...

CVE-2006-6284

Directory traversal vulnerability in admin.php in Vikingboard 0.1.2 allows remote authenticated administrators to include arbitrary files via a .. dot dot sequence in the act parameter...

CVE-2006-4833

Verso NetPerformer FRAD ACT SDM-95xx 7.xx R1 and earlier, SDM-93xx 10.x.x R2 and earlier, and SDM-92xx 9.x.x R1 and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service hang or reboot via an ICMP packet with the same destination and source address and port, aka the "Land" vulnerability...

netperformer.txt

NetPerformer Frame Relay Access Device FRAD ACT Multiple Vulnerabilities .. Release Date : 8 July 2006 Product Affected : - NetPerformer FRAD ACT SDM-95xx version 7.xx R1, earlier, and possibly newer - NetPerformer FRAD ACT SDM-93xx version 10.x.x R2, earlier, and possibly newer - NetPerformer FR...

[Full-disclosure] NetPerformer FRAD ACT Multiple Vulnerabilities

NetPerformer Frame Relay Access Device FRAD ACT Multiple Vulnerabilities .= Arif Jatmoko =. Release Date : 8 July 2006 Product Affected : - NetPerformer FRAD ACT SDM-95xx version 7.xx R1, earlier, and possibly newer - NetPerformer FRAD ACT SDM-93xx version 10.x.x R2, earlier, and possibly newer -...

Multiple NetPerformer FRAD ACT security vulnerabilities

Buffer overflow on oversized telnet username, LAND attack vulnerability...

Cross site scripting

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Milkeyway Captive Portal 0.1 and 0.1.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 ipAddress, 2 act, 3 username, and 4 unspecified other parameters in a authuser.php; and the 5 username and 6 unspecified other...

PT-2006-2101 · Simplog · Simplog

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Simplog versions 1.0.2 and earlier Description: A directory traversal issue exists, allowing remote attackers to include or read arbitrary .txt files. This is achieved via the act and blogid parameters in the index.php file. Recommendations:...