Cracking 16 Character Strong passwords in less than an hour

The Password serves to protect your financial transactions, your social networking sites, and a host of other nominally secure websites online. People often say, "don't use dictionary words as passwords. They are horribly unsecure", but what if hackers also managed to crack any 16 character...

Cracking 16 Character Strong passwords in less than an hour

The Password serves to protect your financial transactions, your social networking sites, and a host of other nominally secure websites online. People often say, "don't use dictionary words as passwords. They are horribly unsecure", but what if hackers also managed to crack any 16 character...

Hackers Using Brute-Force Attacks to Harvest WordPress Sites

Months of distributed denial of service attacks against major U.S. banks have evolved in magnitude and ferocity causing service disruptions for online banking customers. They’ve also shown the way for other attackers to adapt and evolve techniques used in those attacks. Apparently, someone is...

RC4 encryption protocol is vulnerable to certain brute force attacks – Opera Security Advisories

Weaknesses in the RC4 encryption protocol have been found, allowing an attacker to deduce the plaintext. If the same message is encrypted many millions of times, statistical methods can be used to extract valuable information, such as cookies. Due to the time this amount of requests takes, this i...

Alt-N MDaemon's WorldClient Username Enumeration Vulnerability

==================================================================== Alt-N MDaemon's WorldClient Username Enumeration Vulnerability ==================================================================== Software: Alt-N MDaemon v13.0.3 and prior versions Vendor: http://www.altn.com/ Vuln Type:...

Cryptographers Aim to Find New Password Hashing Algorithm

Passwords are the keys to our online identities, and as a result, they’re also near the top of the target list for attackers. There have been countless breaches in the last few years in which unencrypted passwords have been stolen from a database and leaked online, and security experts often shak...

Google Chrome - Silent HTTP Authentication

Exploit Title: Google Chrome Silent HTTP Authentication Date: 2-5-2013 Exploit Author: T355 Vendor Homepage: http://www.google.com/chrome Version: 24.0.1312.57 Tested on: Tested on: Windows 7 & Mac OSX Mountain Lion CVE : n/a VULNERABILITY DETAILS The latest version of Google Chrome Tested on...

Oracle MySQL / MariaDB - Insecure Salt Generation Security Bypass

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56837/info MySQL and MariaDB are prone to a security-bypass weakness. An attacker may be able to exploit this issue to aid in brute-force attacks; other attacks may also be possible. use Net::MySQL; $|=1; my $mysql = Net::MySQL-new hostname = '192.168.2.3...

MS KB2661254: Update For Minimum Certificate Key Length

The remote host is missing Microsoft KB2661254. This update restricts the use of RSA keys less than 1024 bits in length. Keys of shorter lengths are more susceptible to brute-force attacks, which could allow a man-in-the-middle attacker to intercept and/or modify data encrypted over SSL/TLS. C...

CVE-2012-2387

devotee 0.1 patch 2 uses a 32-bit seed for generating 48-bit random numbers, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain the secret monikers via a brute force attack...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2502-1 (python-crypto)

The remote host is missing an update to python-crypto announced via advisory DSA 2502-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb25021.nasl 6612 2017-07-07 12:08:03Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2502-1 python-crypto Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2012 E-Soft...

Mandriva Update for python-pycrypto MDVSA-2012:117 (python-pycrypto)

Check for the Version of python-pycrypto OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for python-pycrypto MDVSA-2012:117 python-pycrypto Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute ...

Mandriva Update for python-pycrypto MDVSA-2012:117 (python-pycrypto)

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",...

Default credentials

The Janrain Capture module 6.x-1.0 and 7.x-1.0 for Drupal, when creating a local user account, allows attackers to obtain part of the initial input used to generate passwords, which makes it easier to conduct brute force password guessing attacks...

CVE-2012-2417

PyCrypto before 2.6 does not produce appropriate prime numbers when using an ElGamal scheme to generate a key, which reduces the signature space or public key space and makes it easier for attackers to conduct brute force attacks to obtain the private key...

CVE-2012-2417

PyCrypto before 2.6 does not produce appropriate prime numbers when using an ElGamal scheme to generate a key, which reduces the signature space or public key space and makes it easier for attackers to conduct brute force attacks to obtain the private key...

PHP 5.3.x < 5.3.14 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its banner, the version of PHP installed on the remote host is 5.3.x earlier than 5.3.14, and is, therefore, potentially affected the following vulnerabilities : - An integer overflow error exists in the function 'pharparsetarfile' in the file 'ext/phar/tar.c'. This error can lead to...

Tough Love Triumphs: SCADA Vendor Koyo Fixes Basecamp Bugs

Industrial control system vendor Koyo moved to fix vulnerabilities in its ECOM brand programmable logic controllers PLCs after researchers, in January, revealed that the devices were vulnerable to brute force password guessing attacks. The Department of Homeland Security’s ICS Industrial Control...

IBM Report: Mobile Attacks, Phishing Attacks Mount in 2011

Spam volume is down, there are fewer unpatched software holes and oftware application developers did a better job of writing secure code over the last year. But IBM’s X-Force Trend and Risk Report still found plenty to worry about in 2011, according to a copy of the report released this week...

AoF and CSRF vulnerabilities in D-Link DAP 1150

Hello 3APA3A! I want to warn you about new security vulnerabilities in D-Link DAP 1150 Wi-Fi Access Point and Router. These are Abuse of Functionality and Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerabilities. This is my third advisory from series of advisories about vulnerabilities in D-Link products. Abus...