CVE-2011-3337

eEye Audit ID 2499 in eEye Digital Security Audits 2406 through 2423 for eEye Retina Network Security Scanner on HP-UX, IRIX, and Solaris allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse gauntlet program in an arbitrary directory under /usr/local/...

9 Top Patch Management Practices for Businesses Security

9 Top Patch Management Practices for Businesses Security I've spent most of the past decade in information security, with a pretty big focus on incident response. It never ceases to amaze me how many security incidents pronounced hacks customers suffer as a result of unpatched systems. Patch...

IT-Grundschutz M4.368: Regelmäßige Audits der Terminalserver-Umgebung

IT-Grundschutz M4.368: Regelmäßige Audits der Terminalserver-Umgebung. ACHTUNG: Dieser Test wird nicht mehr unterstützt. Er wurde ersetzt durch den entsprechenden Test der nun permanent and die aktuelle EL angepasst wird: OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.94250 Diese Prüfung bezieht sich auf die 12...

IT-Grundschutz M4.368: Regelmäßige Audits der Terminalserver-Umgebung

IT-Grundschutz M4.368: Regelmäßige Audits der Terminalserver-Umgebung. ACHTUNG: Dieser Test wird nicht mehr unterstützt. Er wurde ersetzt durch den entsprechenden Test der nun permanent and die aktuelle EL angepasst wird: OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.94250 Diese Prüfung bezieht sich auf die 12...

Twenty Something Asks Facebook For His File And Gets It – All 1,200 Pages

Be careful of what you ask for. That’s a lesson that Max Schrems of Vienna, Austria, learned the hard way when he sent a formal request to Facebook citing European law and asking for a copy of every piece of personal information that the world’s largest social network had collected on him. After ...

OpenVAS Scanner Detection

An OpenVAS Scanner daemon is listening on the remote port. This is the component of OpenVAS that performs security scans and / or audits. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid56823; scriptversion"1.4";...

Facebook Settles with FTC on Privacy Grounds

The Federal Trade Commission FTC proposed a settlement with social networking giant Facebook on Tuesday, requiring the site to take the privacy of its users more seriously and subject itself to privacy audits every two years for the next 20 years, according to an article in the New York Times. Th...

Report: FTC Nears Deal with Facebook For Opt-In Privacy Changes

The deal will settle an FTC case alleging privacy violations on the social network by forcing users to opt in to any changes to default privacy settings, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The FTC inquiry dates back more than two years, and followed changes to the default privacy...

FTC Settles Charges Against Two Companies

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday settled charges against two companies, Ceridian Corporation and Lookout Services, Inc., provided they implement an ample information security program and agree to have audits performed on their company every other year for 20 years. Despite guaranteein...

Report: Application Security Still Mostly Sucks

The third State of Software Security SOSS report finds that software developers are still doing a poor job of making applications secure. Application testing firm Veracode, which compiled the report, found that 58% of almost 5,000 applications failing a security audit on the first pass – about th...

FTC: Google Used Deceptive Practices In Buzz Social Network

Search giant Google has agreed to settle a case with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday over charges that it used deceptive tactics and violated its own privacy policy when it launched Google Buzz, a social network, in 2010. Google agreed to implement a comprehensive privacy program a...

Common Security Mistakes Can Lead to Major Compromises

SAN FRANCISCO–Security is hard and getting it right all the time is nearly impossible. But many of the mistakes that people make are simple, avoidable ones that can lead to serious intrusions and major network compromises. “Maintaining network defenses by hand is difficult,” Mike Lloyd, chief...

Free Fast Traffic Generator: Mausezahn

Mausezahn is a free fast traffic generator written in C which allows you to send nearly every possible and impossible packet. It is mainly used to test VoIP or multicast networks but also for security audits to check whether your systems are hardened enough for specific attacks. Mausezahn can be...

CBI Website Hacked by Pakistani Cyber Army

In a major embarrassment, the website of India's premier investigating agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI, was hacked tonight by a group identifying themselves as the "Pakistani Cyber Army." The CBI homepage displayed a message from the Pakistani Cyber Army, warning the Indian Cyber...

ASPilot Pilot Cart 7.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Exploit for php platform in category web applications =============================================== ASPilot Pilot Cart 7.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities =============================================== Title: ASPilot Pilot Cart 7.3 multiple vulnerabilities Date: 07.11.2010 Author: Ariko-Security...

Shop A La Cart SQL Injection/ Cross Site Scripting

Exploit Title: Multiple vulnerabilities in SHOP A LA CART Date: 03.09.2010 Author: Ariko-Security Software Link: http://shopalacart.com Version: ALL Tested on: ALL CVE : n/a Ariko-Security: Security Audits , Audyt bezpieczeństwa Advisory: 728/2010 ============ Ariko-Security - Advisory 1/9/2010...

Twitter Agrees to FTC Security Audits

An important milestone that should compel all social networks to be much more diligent about preserving privacy and providing robust security was established by federal regulators with Twitter. Read the full article. The Last Watchdog...

[MajorSecurity SA-075]CMS RedAks 2.0 - SQL injection vulnerability

MajorSecurity SA-075CMS RedAks 2.0 - SQL injection vulnerability Details ============= Product: CMS RedAks v.2.0 Security-Risk: high Remote-Exploit: yes Vendor-URL: http://www.redaks.com/ Advisory-Status: published Credits ============= Discovered by: David Vieira-Kurz of MajorSecurity Original...

Ten Percent of IT Pros Falsify Security Audits

According to a survey of 242 IT professionals, 1 in 10 admitted that either they or a colleague have cheated to get an IT audit passed. However, it isn’t all bad news; compared to a similar survey conducted in 2009 the number of people admitting to cheating has halved in number. Read the full...

Microsoft SQL Server Configuration Enumerator

This module will perform a series of configuration audits and security checks against a Microsoft SQL Server database. For this module to work, valid administrative user credentials must be supplied. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source:...