Mobius Forensic Toolkit v0.5.8 Released

Mobius Forensic Toolkit v0.5.8 Released Mobius Forensic Toolkit is a forensic framework written in Python/GTK that manages cases and case items, providing an abstract interface for developing extensions. Cases and item categories are defined using XML files for easy integration with other tool...

Debian DSA-2265-1 : perl - lack of tainted flag propagation

Mark Martinec discovered that Perl incorrectly clears the tainted flag on values returned by case conversion functions such as 'lc'. This may expose preexisting vulnerabilities in applications which use these functions while processing untrusted input. No such applications are known at this stage...

DSA-2265-1 perl - missing taint check

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Former Cisco Engineer Arrested for Hacking !

Former Cisco Engineer Arrested for Hacking ! A former Cisco engineer was arrested last year on charges of hacking into his former employer's network and is currently awaiting extradition in Canada. The charges against Peter Alfred-Adekeye, a British national who worked for Cisco before leaving to...

India's CBI plans to send teams to US, Europe to trace hackers !

Against the backdrop of the attack on its website by "Pakistan Cyber Army", the CBI is considering to send its team to the US and Europe to trace hackers involved in the defacement. Sources said the agency officials have pin-pointed three Internet Protocol IP address -- a unique numerical label...

CVE-2011-0188

The VpMemAlloc function in bigdecimal.c in the BigDecimal class in Ruby 1.9.2-p136 and earlier, as used on Apple Mac OS X before 10.6.7 and other platforms, does not properly allocate memory, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service applicati...

Jesse William McGraw , Clinic Hacker Gets 9 Year Sentence !

Jesse William McGraw , Clinic Hacker Gets 9 Year Sentence ! A former security guard at a Dallas medical office has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison in a hacking case that drew national attention because the hacker posted video of the crimes on YouTube. Jesse William McGraw was...

Mobius Forensic Toolkit v0.5.7 released !

Mobius Forensic Toolkit is a forensic framework written in Python/GTK that manages cases and case items, providing an abstract interface for developing extensions. Cases and item categories are defined using XML files for easy integration with other tool. Changelog Six news registry reports were...

CVE-2011-0449

actionpack/lib/actionview/template/resolver.rb in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.4, when a case-insensitive filesystem is used, does not properly implement filters associated with the list of available templates, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via an action...

CVE-2011-0449: Undefined Security Weakness

actionpack/lib/actionview/template/resolver.rb in Ruby on Rails 3.0.x before 3.0.4, when a case-insensitive filesystem is used, does not properly implement filters associated with the list of available templates, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via an action...

PT-2011-2352

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ruby on Rails versions 3.0.x through 3.0.3 Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via an action name that uses an unintended case for alphabetic characters, when a case-insensitive filesystem is...

Spotlight On Woeful Web Security In iPad Hacking Case

If a Web site leaves sensitive data hanging out in the open, can you still be accused of hacking when you grab it? Turns out, the answer is “hell, yeah!” But lots of people still do it. OK – you’re walking down the street and you come upon this apple tree in some one’s front yard. It’s a lovely...

CVE-2010-3678

Oracle MySQL 5.1 before 5.1.49 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service crash via 1 IN or 2 CASE operations with NULL arguments that are explicitly specified or indirectly provided by the WITH ROLLUP modifier...

PT-2011-1425

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Oracle MySQL versions prior to 5.1.49 Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash, by performing certain operations with NULL arguments. This can be achieved through 1 IN or 2 CASE...

CVE-2010-3678: Undefined Security Weakness

Oracle MySQL 5.1 before 5.1.49 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service crash via 1 IN or 2 CASE operations with NULL arguments that are explicitly specified or indirectly provided by the WITH ROLLUP modifier...

Thurston sees largest identity theft case in the county's history !!

An Olympia-area man has been arrested in what the Thurston County Sheriff's Office says is the largest identity-theft case in the county's history. More than 1,000 victims statewide had their driver's licenses, credit cards and Social Security numbers stolen, according to the Sheriff's Office...

U.S. investigators demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account from court !

U.S. investigators have gone to court to demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account, according to documents obtained Saturday -- the first revelation about the criminal case Washington is trying to build against those who leaked classified U.S. documents. The U.S. District Court for the...

CVE-2010-4536

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in KSES, as used in WordPress before 3.0.4, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to 1 the & ampersand character, 2 the case of an attribute name, 3 a padded entity, and 4 an entity that is not in...

Joint Director's (Technical Education Department) official mail ID hacked

The Joint Director of Technical Education Department in Palace Grounds has fallen prey to hacking and email fraud. His official email ID was hacked and a number of messages were sent to a number of government employees seeking help. Joint Director R Krishnamurthy said his official email ID create...

Hacker Infects 2,300 Computers; Court Hears Case of Youthful Curiosity

A hacker who infected over 2,300 computers with a virus capable of stealing banking details did not have serious criminal intentions, a court has heard. Today, lawyers for Anthony Scott Harrison argued that his "youthful curiosity" led him to hack into other people's computers to steal money...