Botnets Hit Perl Testers With Denial of Service Attack

According to a posting on the CPAN Testers’ blog, the CPAN Testers’ server has been being aggressively scanned by “20-30 bots every few seconds” in what they call “a dedicated denial of service attack”; these bots “completely ignore the rules specified in robots.txt”. Read the full article. The H...

Update Protection against Multiple PHP-based Vulnerabilities

ADOdb is a database abstraction library for PHP. A vulnerability was detected in ADOdb due to the presence pf an insecure ADOdb script that can be exploited by remote attackers to execute malicious PHP commands on the target system. The 'Defacing Tool 2.0 by r3v3ng4ns' is a suite of php based...