U.S. Dept Of Defense: Attackers can control which security questions they are presented (████████)

Summary: When clicking on the forgot password link on ██████, the questions used to verify identify can be arbitrarily selected by an attacker. Description: When clicking on the forgot password link on ██████████, the questions used to verify identify can be arbitrarily selected by an attacker...

Using EMET to Disable EMET

UPDATE July 7: This post has been updated in advance of a Black Hat 2016 presentation. Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET is a project that adds security mitigations to user mode programs beyond those built in to the operating system. It runs inside “protected” programs as a...

LastPass Mitigates LostPass Phishing Attack

LastPass has taken measures to mitigate a phishing attack described this weekend at ShmooCon that put at risk users’ credentials and information stored by the password manager. Researcher Sean Cassidy, chief technology officer of cloud security company Praesidio, demonstrated an attack where he w...

A Year Later, XSS Vulnerability Still Exists in eBay

A potentially dangerous cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability has existed in eBay for more than a year, and it doesn’t appear the company is a rush to fix the issue. Jaanus Kääp, a researcher based in Estonia, discovered the issue more than a year ago when he was looking into the security of web...

SUSE-SU-2015:1112-1 Security update for python-Django

python-django was updated to 1.6.11 to fix security issues and non-security bugs. The following vulnerabilities were fixed: Made issafeurl reject URLs that start with control characters to mitigate possible XSS attack via user-supplied redirect URLs bnc923176, CVE-2015-2317 Fixed an infinite loop...

FreeBSD Patches TCP Processing DoS Vulnerability

FreeBSD has patched a denial-of-service vulnerability that could affect a host of third-party packages built atop the UNIX-like operating system. The vulnerability—found in the way FreeBSD processes TCP packets—was discovered by a member of Juniper Networks’ incident response team. FreeBSD’s...

Blue Coat ProxySG Management Console URI Handler Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26286/info Blue Coat ProxySG Management Console is prone to two cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage these issues to execute...

Chipmunk Directory Index.PHP Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18119/info Chipmunk Directory is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage this issue to have...

BirdBlog 1.4 /admin/admincore.php msg Parameter XSS

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21184/info BirdBlog is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage these issues to have arbitrary script code...

KnowGate hipergate 4.0.12 Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38094/info KnowGate hipergate is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary...

162,000 WordPress Sites Used in DDoS Attack

More than 162,000 “popular and clean” WordPress sites were recently used in a large-scale distributed denial of service attack DDoS that exploited the content management system’s pingback feature. While the WordPress team is aware of the issue it’s not expected to be patched as it’s a default...

MIMEsweeper For SMTP - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

MIMEsweeper For SMTP - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58012/info MIMEsweeper for SMTP is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because it fails to sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage these issues to execu...

Regulator Warns Banks About DDoS Attacks, Encourages Information Sharing

In an alert issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency OCC, Deputy Comptroller for Operational Risk Carolyn G. DuChene warned financial and other critical institutions about the wave of ongoing distributed denial of service DDoS attacks targeting their networks. DuChene is urging the...

Drupal ‘BrowserID’ 跨站请求伪造漏洞和安全绕过漏洞

Drupal是一款开源CMS，可以作为各种网站的内容管理平台。 Drupal的BrowserID（Mozilla Persona）模块中存在跨站请求伪造漏洞和安全绕过漏洞。 攻击者可利用这些漏洞绕过安全限制进而获取敏感信息，或者执行未授权操作，获取对受影响应用程序的访问，这可能导致进一步的攻击。 BrowserID（Mozilla Persona） 7.x-1.3之前的7.x-1.x版本中存在这些漏洞。 0 7.x-1.x 厂商解决方案 目前厂商已经发布了升级补丁以修复此安全问题，补丁获取链接： http://drupal.org/node/1597414...

ExpressionEngine 2.2.2 / CodeIgniter 2.0.3 Cross Site Scripting

CVE: CVE-2011-4025 Vendor: EllisLab Products: ExpressionEngine 2.2.2, CodeIgniter 2.0.3 Vulnerabilities: xssclean filter bypass, leading to Cross-Site Scripting XSS Risk: High Attack Vector: From Remote Reference: http://secureappdev.blogspot.com/2011/11/ellislab-xssclean-filter-bypass.html 1...

Microsoft Research Proposes E-Voting Attack Mitigation

Microsoft Research has proposed a mitigation for a known potential attack against verifiable electronic voting machines that could help prevent insiders from being able to alter votes after the fact. The countermeasure to the “trash attack” involves adding a cryptographic hash to the receipts tha...

Radware's Attack Mitigation System Delivers the First Fully Integrated Solution to Fight Cyber Attacks in Real Time

Radware's Attack Mitigation System Delivers the First Fully Integrated Solution to Fight Cyber Attacks in Real Time The solution blocks the new breed of sophisticated attacks that target Multiple layers of the IT infrastructure . Today's point security tools for IT infrastructures are not enough ...

Didactum SensorProbe v2.x - Persistent Web Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Didactum SensorProbe v2.x - Persistent Web Vulnerability Release Date: ============= 2011-08-23 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 109 Product & Service Introduction: =============================== Netzwerkgestützte...

WebCalendar 1.2.3 Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

WebCalendar 1.2.3 Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities. Webapps exploit for php platform source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48546/info WebCalendar is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data. An attacker may...

Alkacon OpenCMS 7.0.3 - 'users_list.jsp' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28411/info Alkacon OpenCms is prone to multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage these issues to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an...