Microsoft Privacy Policy Promises No Targeted Advertisements

In a series of revisions to its services agreement, Microsoft says it will not scan the contents of its users’ files nor will it monitor their communications in order to target advertising based on perceived customer interests. The move is a dramatic one when contrasted with many of the Redmond,...

Cryptowall Ransomware Spreading Rapidly through Malicious Advertisements

Ransomware is an emerging threat in the evolution of cybercriminals techniques to part you from your money. Typically, the malicious software either lock victim’s computer system or encrypt the documents and files on it, in order to extort money from the victims. Though earlier we saw the samples...

Google Working On End-to-End Encryption for Gmail Service

Constant password breaches and Snowden revelations about Government Surveillance have raised many questions that why don’t cloud and email Services encrypt the data stored on their server? Revelations forced the popular Internet Giants such as Google and Yahoo to contemplate on the privacy and...

Google Admits that It Reads your Emails

Google has updated its privacy terms and conditions on Monday to offer more transparency regarding its email-scanning practices. One of the world’s biggest Web internet giant, Google, made it clear that the information its users submit and share with its systems is all analyzed. Last year, Google...

Microsoft Windows IPv6 Router Advertisements Denial of Service (MS14-006; CVE-2014-0254)

A denial of service vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability is due to a design weakness in the IPv6 stack as it processes router advertisement packets. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a large number of specially crafted IPv6 packets to the...

Extension Spam in Google Chrome Web Store

UPDATE: Twelve seemingly legitimate Chrome browser extensions installed by more than 180,000 users are injecting advertisements on 44 popular websites. According to a Barracuda Labs report, the extensions can be found in the official Chrome Web Store. They advertise themselves and operate as game...

kernel: handling of IPv6 temporary addresses

The ipv6createtempaddr function in net/ipv6/addrconf.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8 does not properly handle problems with the generation of IPv6 temporary addresses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service excessive retries and address-generation outage, and consequently...

Holiday Season Phishing Scams and Malware Campaigns

As the winter holidays approach, US-CERT reminds users to stay aware of seasonal scams and cyber campaigns, which may include: electronic greeting cards that may contain malware requests for charitable contributions that may be phishing scams and may originate from illegitimate sources claiming t...

kernel: handling of IPv6 temporary addresses

The ipv6createtempaddr function in net/ipv6/addrconf.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8 does not properly handle problems with the generation of IPv6 temporary addresses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service excessive retries and address-generation outage, and consequently...

kernel: handling of IPv6 temporary addresses

The ipv6createtempaddr function in net/ipv6/addrconf.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8 does not properly handle problems with the generation of IPv6 temporary addresses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service excessive retries and address-generation outage, and consequently...

CVE-2013-0149

The OSPF implementation in Cisco IOS 12.0 through 12.4 and 15.0 through 15.3, IOS-XE 2.x through 3.9.xS, ASA and PIX 7.x through 9.1, FWSM, NX-OS, and StarOS before 14.0.50488 does not properly validate Link State Advertisement LSA type 1 packets before performing operations on the LSA database,...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4125

The fib6addrt2node function in net/ipv6/ip6fib.c in the IPv6 stack in the Linux kernel through 3.10.1 does not properly handle Router Advertisement RA messages in certain circumstances involving three routes that initially qualified for membership in an ECMP route set until a change occurred for...

Has Anyone Seen a Missing Scroll Bar? Phony Flash Update Redirects to Malware

Microsoft said it has received 70,000 reports this week of a new Trojan disguised as an Adobe Flash Player update that will change your browser’s home page and redirect a Web session to an attacker’s page. There are several clues something is amiss, namely part of the GUI for the supposed Flash 1...

Facebook Partners with Data Brokers for Better Ads

In late February, Facebook forged a partnership with four of its most prolific data brokers in order to more accurately target users with relevant advertisements. Facebook announced on Feb. 27 that it would be expanding its custom audiences tool, an earlier initiative designed to target users wit...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-0343

The ipv6createtempaddr function in net/ipv6/addrconf.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8 does not properly handle problems with the generation of IPv6 temporary addresses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service excessive retries and address-generation outage, and consequently...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-0343

The ipv6createtempaddr function in net/ipv6/addrconf.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8 does not properly handle problems with the generation of IPv6 temporary addresses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service excessive retries and address-generation outage, and consequently...

ipv6-ra-flood NSE Script

Generates a flood of Router Advertisements RA with random source MAC addresses and IPv6 prefixes. Computers, which have stateless autoconfiguration enabled by default every major OS, will start to compute IPv6 suffix and update their routing table to reflect the accepted announcement. This will...

(ospfd): Crash by processing LS-Update OSPF packet due improper length check of the Network-LSA structures

Buffer overflow in the OSPFv2 implementation in ospfd in Quagga before 0.99.20.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash via a Link State Update aka LS Update packet containing a network-LSA link-state advertisement for which the data-structure length is smaller than the...

Firm Sees More DDoS Attacks Aimed at Telecom Systems

Attackers are now using DDoS services that offer attacks on telecommunication systems as part of larger attack schemes. These attacks, known as TDoS attacks, can be a relatively cheap option for cybercriminals looking into diversifying their attack vectors. Researchers have seen a series of...

Deceptive In-App Ads Hit Users of Draw Something

I really like the new app by OMGPOP called Draw Something. I play this game with my friends possibly a little too much. Draw Something has attracted more than 50 million downloads, and was just acquired by Zynga for $200 million dollars. It was surprising the other day when I noticed an...