Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for January Security Bulletin

Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification indicating that its January release will contain two bulletins. These bulletins will have the severity ratings of critical and important and will be for Microsoft Windows. Release of these bulletins is scheduled for Tuesday, January 11...

Apple Releases Mac OS X v10.6.6

Apple has released Mac OS X v10.6.6 to address a vulnerability affecting PackageKit. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Apple article HT4498 and apply any...

Microsoft Releases Security Advisory

Microsoft has released security advisory 2490606 to alert users of a vulnerability affecting the Windows Graphics Rendering Engine. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. US-CERT...

According to CERT-In : Indian sites hacked most in 2010 !

System administrators would surely want to forget the year 2010, which saw a sharp increase in the number of cyber attacks on Indian websites. According to Indian Computer Emergency Response Team CERT-In, the defacement of websites with India specific domain '.in' tripled in 2010. Around 8,864...

WordPress.org has released WordPress 3.0.4

WordPress.org has released WordPress 3.0.4 to address a vulnerability in the HTML sanitation library. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to insert arbitrary HTML and script code into the browser session. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the WordPress.org...

CERT-In to assist Kerala to beef up Cyber Security

Recently a spate of defacements has been reported from websites pertaining to Kerala. As per the statistics available with the Computer Emergency Response Team Kerala CERT-K, as many as 40 odd websites from Kerala were hacked in the last six weeks. Random messages on social networking sites hint ...

India Orders Security Certification for Government Websites After CBI Hack

India has mandated that all government ministries and departments secure their websites with proper certification. This directive follows the hacking of the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI website by a group calling themselves the "Pakistani Cyber Army." The National Informatics Centre has be...

RIM Releases Security Advisory for BlackBerry Enterprise Server

RIM has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability in the PDF distiller of the BlackBerry attachment service for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. The vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. US-CERT encourages users and...

Microsoft Releases December Security Bulletin

Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, SharePoint, and Exchange as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for December 2010. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, operate with elevated...

Google Releases Chrome 8.0.552.224

Google has released Chrome 8.0.552.224 to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Google Chrome Releases blog entry and apply any...

RealNetworks Releases Security Update for RealPlayer

RealNetworks, Inc. has released an update for RealPlayer to address multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the RealNetworks notice released on December 10, 2010 and appl...

FreeAmp 2.0.7 - .m3u Local Buffer Overflow

FreeAmp 2.0.7 - .m3u Local Buffer Overflow Exploit Title: FreeAmp 2.0.7 .m3u Buffer Overflow - Egghunter Google Dork: N/A Date: 11/12/2010 Author: zota Thanks to Andrew; [email protected] Software Link:...

Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.6.13

The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 3.6.13 to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, operate with elevated privileges, spoof the location bar, or operate with elevated privileges. The Mozilla foundation has also released...

WordPress Releases Version 3.0.3

WordPress has released WordPress 3.0.3 to address a vulnerability. Execution of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to operate with elevated privileges. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the WordPress Codex document for version 3.0.3 and apply any necessary updates to hel...

Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for December Security Bulletin

Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification indicating that its December release will contain 17 bulletins. Two of these bulletins will have a severity rating of critical and will be for Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer. Fourteen of the bulletins will have a severity rati...

Apple Releases QuickTime 7.6.9

Apple has released QuickTime 7.6.9 to address multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, or obtain sensitive information. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Apple article...

WordPress Releases WordPress 3.0.2

WordPress has released WordPress 3.0.2 to address a vulnerability that may allow a malicious Author-level user to gain further access to the site, to fix multiple software bugs, and to provide additional security enhancements. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the WordPress bl...

Internet Systems Consortium BIND Vulnerabilities

The Internet Systems Consortium ISC has released three advisories to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting BIND. The first advisory, CVE-2010-3613, addresses a vulnerability in BIND versions 9.6.2 to 9.6.2-P2, 9.6-ESV to 9.6-ESV-R2, and 9.70 to 9.7.2-P2. This vulnerability exists when cache...

Awstats Configuration File Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

Awstats is prone to an arbitrary command-execution vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user- supplied input. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary shell commands in the context of the webserver process. This may help...

Potential WikiLeaks Phishing Scams

In the past, US-CERT has received reports of phishing scams and malware campaigns related to topics that are of high-interest to the U.S. Government or news media, such as the WikiLeaks website. Users' systems have been compromised by receiving and accessing phishing emails with subject lines tha...