Last.fm, Mum On Breach, Adopts 'More Rigorous' Password Security

Last.fm, the online music streaming service, said it has implemented ‘more rigorous’ security for customer account passwords in the wake of reports that some of those passwords had been leaked online. In a post on the company’s Website, Last.fm said that its investigation of reports that hashed o...

How The Flame Malware Stayed Hidden For So Long

The past week has brought to light more revelations about the mysterious Flame or sKyWIper worm that was first identified at the end of May. Among them: the eye-popping admission from Microsoft that the malware’s authors found a way to use that company’s Windows Update feature to distribute the...

LinkedIn Confirms Millions of Account Passwords Hacked

LinkedIn Confirms Millions of Account Passwords Hacked LinkedIn Wednesday confirmed that at least some passwords compromised in a major security breach correspond to LinkedIn accounts. Norweigan IT website Dagens IT first reported the breach, noting that "Two days ago a package on the 6.5 million...

US-CERT Alert TA12-156A -- Microsoft Windows Unauthorized Digital Certificates

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 National Cyber Alert System Technical Cyber Security Alert TA12-156A Microsoft Windows Unauthorized Digital Certificates Original release date: June 04, 2012 Last revised: -- Source: US-CERT Systems Affected All supported versions of Microsoft Windows...

RedHat Update for openssl RHSA-2011:0677-01

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",...

Flame Attackers Used Collision Attack to Forge Microsoft Certificate

The attackers behind the Flame malware used a collision attack against a cryptographic algorithm as part of the method for gaining a forged certificate to sign specific components of the attack tool. Microsoft officials said on Tuesday that it’s imperative for customers to install the update issu...

CVE-2011-2082

The vulnerable-passwords script in Best Practical Solutions RT 3.x before 3.8.12 and 4.x before 4.0.6 does not update the password-hash algorithm for disabled user accounts, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to determine cleartext passwords, and possibly use these passwords...

Design/Logic Flaw

The vulnerable-passwords script in Best Practical Solutions RT 3.x before 3.8.12 and 4.x before 4.0.6 does not update the password-hash algorithm for disabled user accounts, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to determine cleartext passwords, and possibly use these passwords...

CVE-2011-2082

The vulnerable-passwords script in Best Practical Solutions RT 3.x before 3.8.12 and 4.x before 4.0.6 does not update the password-hash algorithm for disabled user accounts, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to determine cleartext passwords, and possibly use these passwords...

CVE-2011-2082

The vulnerable-passwords script in Best Practical Solutions RT 3.x before 3.8.12 and 4.x before 4.0.6 does not update the password-hash algorithm for disabled user accounts, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to determine cleartext passwords, and possibly use these passwords...

CVE-2011-2082: Undefined Security Weakness

The vulnerable-passwords script in Best Practical Solutions RT 3.x before 3.8.12 and 4.x before 4.0.6 does not update the password-hash algorithm for disabled user accounts, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to determine cleartext passwords, and possibly use these passwords...

Tiny New Tinba Banker Trojan Found Stealing Financial Data

Security researchers have discovered a tiny new banking Trojan that comprises just 20 KB of code and uses a number of well-word man-in-the-browser tricks in an attempt to defeat two-factor authentication. Known as Tinba, the new malware doesn’t bother with any encryption or packing and yet is...

CVE-2011-3188

The 1 IPv4 and 2 IPv6 implementations in the Linux kernel before 3.1 use a modified MD4 algorithm to generate sequence numbers and Fragment Identification values, which makes it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service disrupted networking or hijack network sessions by predicting...

CVE-2011-3188

CVE-2011-3188 affects the Linux kernel prior to 3.1, where IPv4 and IPv6 sequence numbers/Fragment IDs are generated with a modified MD4. This predictable value generation enables remote attackers to cause DoS or hijack sessions by crafting packets. The vulnerability is mitigated by upgrading the...

CVE-2011-3188

The 1 IPv4 and 2 IPv6 implementations in the Linux kernel before 3.1 use a modified MD4 algorithm to generate sequence numbers and Fragment Identification values, which makes it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service disrupted networking or hijack network sessions by predicting...

CVE-2011-3188: Undefined Security Weakness

The 1 IPv4 and 2 IPv6 implementations in the Linux kernel before 3.1 use a modified MD4 algorithm to generate sequence numbers and Fragment Identification values, which makes it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service disrupted networking or hijack network sessions by predicting...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: libpng-1.5.10-1.fc17

The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and manipulating PNG Portable Network Graphics image format files. PNG is a bit-mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format. PNG was created to replace the GIF format, since GIF uses a patented data compression algorithm. Libpng...

Researchers Confirm 600K-Strong Flashback Botnet Is Mostly Mac

Kaspersky Lab researchers say that analysis of the Flashfake botnet confirms the size of the malicious network and that it consists mostly of Mac OS X machines. Researchers at Kaspersky wrote on Friday that they were able to reverse engineer the domain generation algorithm used by the botnet, the...

SuSE 10 Security Update : glibc (ZYPP Patch Number 7663)

The implementation of the blowfish based password hashing method had a bug affecting passwords that contain 8bit characters e.g. umlauts. Affected passwords are potentially faster to crack via brute-force methods. CVE-2011-2483 SUSE's crypt implementation supports the blowfish password hashing...

Fedora Update for pyfribidi FEDORA-2012-3537

Check for the Version of pyfribidi OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for pyfribidi FEDORA-2012-3537 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under th...