DSA-2826-1 denyhosts - Remote denial of ssh service

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2826-1 (denyhosts - Remote denial of ssh service)

Helmut Grohne discovered that denyhosts, a tool preventing SSH brute-force attacks, could be used to perform remote denial of service against the SSH daemon. Incorrectly specified regular expressions used to detect brute force attacks in authentication logs could be exploited by a malicious user ...

ESA-2013-047: RSA® Authentication Agent for PAM Unlimited Login Attempts Vulnerability

ESA-2013-047.txt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ESA-2013-047: RSA® Authentication Agent for PAM Unlimited Login Attempts Vulnerability EMC Identifier: ESA-2013-047 CVE Identifier: CVE-2013-3271 Severity Rating: CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Affected Products: R...

Amazon Linux AMI : python-crypto (ALAS-2012-86)

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. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

New Botnet Campaign 'Fort Disco' Brute-Forcing Thousands of WordPress, Joomla Websites

Password theft has been a growing problem within the security community. Researchers at Arbor Networks have uncovered a botnet called Fort Disco that was used to compromise more than 6000 websites based on popular CMSs such as WordPress, Joomla and Datalife Engine. The Fort Disco botnet is...

Fort Disco Botnet Uses Brute-Force Attacks Against CMS Sites

More than 6,000 websites built on content management systems such as WordPress, Joomla and Datalife Engine were compromised in a new brute-force attack campaign, according to a researcher at Arbor Networks. A botnet called Fort Disco, currently made up of 25,000 Windows machines, is responsible f...

WordPress Update 3.5.2 Patches Seven Vulnerabilities

WordPress, which has been a jumping off point for a number of targeted attacks and other high-profile hacks, has been updated and the latest version includes a number of security patches. Version 3.5.2, released late last week, includes seven security fixes and some additional hardening, accordin...

Popular WordPress Themes, Plug-Ins Vulnerable to Attack

Since late March, no fewer than a half-dozen high profile attacks have involved a compromised website built on the WordPress platform. Attackers abuse vulnerabilities in the content management system’s customizable plug-ins and themes to pull off anything from drive-by downloads to watering hole...

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 ...