Microsoft AntiXSS Library Sanitization Module Security Bypass Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting AntiXSS Library is prone to a security-bypass vulnerability that affects the sanitization module. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to bypass the filter and conduct cross-site scripting attacks. Successful exploits may allow attackers to...

Microsoft Windows Kernel TrueType Font Parsing (CVE-2011-2004) Denial of Service Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability that occurs in the Windows kernel 'Win32k.sys' kernel-mode device driver. A remote attacker can exploit this issue to crash the Windows kernel, denying service to legitimate users. Technologies Affected Avaya Aura...

Researchers Analyzing Attack Patterns With Cloud-Based Malware Data

BARCELONA–Successful targeted attacks against companies such as RSA, Google and others have made huge splashes in the news in the last year or two and drawn a lot of attention to the phenomenon. But it’s not just the successful attacks that are interesting, security researchers say. In many cases...

Lady Gaga Website The Latest in String of Celebrity Hacks

A collective of hackers known as SwagSec claims to have broken into the UK website of Lady Gaga and made off with information on thousands of registered fans, according to a report from the UK’s Mirror. The hack, just the latest in a string of attacks on high profile artists, was made public afte...

Pentagon Admits to biggest ever data breach

Pentagon Admits to biggest ever data breach According to Report, Department of Defense and Pentagon is disclosing news of the one of the largest data loss events to date . From investigation, officials to believe the intrusion was orchestrated by a foreign government. The theft of around 24,000...

CVE-2011-1128

The loadUserSettings function in Load.php in Simple Machines Forum SMF before 1.1.13, and 2.x before 2.0 RC5, does not properly handle invalid login attempts, which might make it easier for remote attackers to obtain access or cause a denial of service via a brute-force attack...

Design/Logic Flaw

The loadUserSettings function in Load.php in Simple Machines Forum SMF before 1.1.13, and 2.x before 2.0 RC5, does not properly handle invalid login attempts, which might make it easier for remote attackers to obtain access or cause a denial of service via a brute-force attack...

Sony Subsidiary ISP Compromised, Virtual Tokens Stolen

Sony’s subsidiary Internet service provider, So-net, was broken into on Friday by an intruder who allegedly made off with some $1200 in virtual tokens, according to a NetworkWorld report. The report claims that the intrusion originated from a single IP address between May 16 and 17, where an...

Hackers Insert Rogue Content on Al Jazeera Arabic Website !

Al-Jazeera said that hackers have managed to bring the rogue content to some of its Arabic website for ads aimed at discrediting the objectivity of its coverage of Egyptian protests. "Hackers have managed to bring the portion of the advertising instead ajjazeera.net distort the network news...

Saudi ministry restores hacked website !

Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Education has restored its website, weeks after it was taken offline in the latest of a series of hacking attempts on some of the kingdom's most prominent sites. "The website was hacked a few weeks back, but has now been fully restored, and is safe and functional,"...

BlackSheep Plugin Bites Back: Detecting FireSheep Hijack Attempts

With more than 600,000 copies of the FireSheep browser plug-in downloaded in a matter of weeks, Web security firm zScaler have released a new Firefox plug-in, BlackSheep, in hopes of combating attempts by those using FireSheep to try to hijack their Web session. The plug-in doesn’t protect users...

PYSEC-2010-24

The ftpSTOU function in FTPServer.py in pyftpdlib before 0.2.0 does not limit the number of attempts to discover a unique filename, which might allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service via a STOU command...

CVE-2007-6737

FTPServer.py in pyftpdlib before 0.2.0 does not increment the attemptedlogins count for a USER command that specifies an invalid username, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access via a brute-force attack...

CVE-2010-2968

The FTP daemon in Wind River VxWorks does not close the TCP connection after a number of failed login attempts, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access via a brute-force attack...

CVE-2010-2231

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in report/overview/report.php in the quiz module in Moodle before 1.8.13 and 1.9.x before 1.9.9 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that delete quiz attempts via the attemptid parameter...

CVE-2010-2231

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in report/overview/report.php in the quiz module in Moodle before 1.8.13 and 1.9.x before 1.9.9 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that delete quiz attempts via the attemptid parameter...

CVE-2010-2231

Moodle vulnerability CVE-2010-2231 is a CSRF in the quiz module (report/overview/report.php). Affects Moodle versions before 1.8.13 and 1.9.x before 1.9.9. The flaw allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users to issue requests that delete quiz attempts via the attempti...

moodle -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Moodle release notes report multiple vulnerabilities which could allow cross site scripting, XSS attacks, unauthorised deletion of attempts in some instances...

Require user to answer CAPTCHA after three failed attempts

Require user to answer CAPTCHA after three failed attempts. For SOAP and XMLRPC this means that the user will have to open a browser to answer the CAPTCHA, similar to how google does it. This issue has been rated MODERATE. Please refer to http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/ZILmD for details on oth...

brute force password attack protection by default

We have added an upgrade task to set jira.maximum.authentication.attempts.allowed=5 on all instances even if they previous had set it to something else. This is to ensure that systems are more safe by default...