As a JIRA System Administrator, I can instruct web browsers to not allow saving a user's password in the various login options, so that unauthorized users can not access the system.

panel:bgColor=e7f4fa NOTE: This suggestion is for JIRA Cloud. Using JIRA Server? See the corresponding suggestion|http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-29447. panel In some organisations, as part of a set of security requirements, it is required for compliant applications, to disallow users ...

Several vulnerabilities found in IcedTea-Web

The IcedTea project team reports: CVE-2012-3422: Use of uninitialized instance pointers An uninitialized pointer use flaw was found in IcedTea-Web web browser plugin. A malicious web page could use this flaw make IcedTea-Web browser plugin pass invalid pointer to a web browser. Depending on the...

JVN#90389651: Multiple web browsers vulnerable in processing Tranfer-Encoding header

Multiple web browsers contain a vulnerability in processing the Transfer-Encoding header. When viewing a malicious web site through a proxy server, part of the HTTP response may be misidentified as a response from a different server. Impact An arbitrary script may be executed on the user's web...

Black Hat: Phishing E-Mail Scare A False Alarm

The annual Black Hat Briefings hacker conference got off to a rocky start Sunday after thousands of registered attendees received a fishy smelling “account password reset” e-mail that contained a suspicious URL. But a message from conference organizers hours later said the errant e-mail was no...

RedHat Update for icedtea-web RHSA-2011:1441-01

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",...

BlackHole Exploit Kit Gets New Domain-Generation Algorithm

Nothing is more frustrating than spending days or weeks compromising dozens of Web sites and setting up your network of malicious redirects and then finding out that someone has screwed it all up by taking down one of your infected sites. Luckily, the crew behind the BlackHole exploit kit has...

Senate Committee to Discuss Do Not Track at Key Hearing

The dram surrounding the Do Not Track specification and its implementation by browser manufacturers is set to continue on Thursday when the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing to discuss whether the proposed specification is strong enough or has been weakened by the digital advertising...

libpng: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background libpng is a standard library used to process PNG Portable Network Graphics images. It is used by several programs, including web browsers and potentially server processes. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libpng: The “embeddedprofilelen” function in pngwutil...

CSNC-2012-004 Generic XSS in AdNovum nevisProxy

COMPASS SECURITY ADVISORY http://www.csnc.ch/en/downloads/advisories.html Product: NevisProxy Vendor: AdNovum CVD ID: CSNC-2012-004 Subject: Cross-site scripting XSS within 302 Redirections Risk: High Effect: Remotely exploitable Author: Alexandre Herzog [email protected] Date: 02/23/2012...

Top Web Browsers Vulnerable To Rogue Download Vulnerability

Security researcher and Google employee Michal Zalewski is warning of a potentially serious security hole that affects the three major Web browsers, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google’s Chrome browser and that could make it easy for attackers to push malicious downloads from domains other than...

Browsers Browsers - Navigation Download Trick

Browsers Browsers - Navigation Download Trick Another moderately interesting tidbit, I guess... It is an important and little-known property of web browsers that one document can always navigate other, non-same-origin windows to arbitrary URLs. Perhaps more interestingly, you can also navigate...

Browser Navigation Download Trick

Another moderately interesting tidbit, I guess... It is an important and little-known property of web browsers that one document can always navigate other, non-same-origin windows to arbitrary URLs. Perhaps more interestingly, you can also navigate third-party documents to resources served with...

Browsers Browsers - Navigation Download Trick

Another moderately interesting tidbit, I guess... It is an important and little-known property of web browsers that one document can always navigate other, non-same-origin windows to arbitrary URLs. Perhaps more interestingly, you can also navigate third-party documents to resources served with...

Google Chrome Multiple Vulnerabilities(02) - May 12 (Linux)

This host is installed with Google Chrome and is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: secpodgooglechromemultvulnmay12lin.nasl 5999 2017-04-21 09:02:32Z teissa $ Google Chrome Multiple Vulnerabilities02 - May 12 Linux Authors: Madhuri D Copyright: Copyright c 2012...

Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:12.0/ rv:10.0.4) (MFSA 2012-20)

The browser engine in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 11.0, Thunderbird 5.0 through 11.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service assertion failure and memory corruption or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to jsval.h and the js::arrayshift...

Real Networks RealPlayer < 14.0.6.666 (Build 12.0.1.666) Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Apple Issues Update to Prevent Flashback Malware from Infecting Mac OS X Machines

Less than a day after reports began surfacing that the Flashback trojan was hitting Mac OS X machines, Apple today released a fix to stop the latest variant of the password-stealing malware. The update closes numerous vulnerabilities in Java 1.6.029, including a serious hole that allowed an...

Yahoo to Implement Do Not Track

Yahoo has decided that it’s now time to start implementing a Do Not Track system across its various Web properties. The company is one of the last large Web content providers to officially commit to using a DNT technology, and Yahoo said that it plans to have the system implemented by early summe...

Mozilla: SVG issues found with Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2012-14)

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsSMILTimeValueSpec::ConvertBetweenTimeContainer function in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.28 and 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird before 3.1.20 and 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 might...

Finally Google Chrome gets hacked at Pwn2Own

Finally Google Chrome gets hacked at Pwn2Own Vupen Security and Sergey Glazunov independently managed to penetrate Google Chrome's security defenses at the Pwn2Own and 'Pwnium' contests respectively. The annual competition, which invites ethical hackers from around the world to attempt hacking in...