Cisco Network Building Manager Vulnerabilities

Cisco has released a security advisory to address multiple vulnerabilities in Network Building Manager. The advisory indicates that the legacy Richards-Zeta Mediator products are also affected by these vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to operate with...

Google Releases Chrome 5.0.375.55

Google has released Chrome 5.0.375.55 for Linux, Mac, and Windows to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to bypass security restrictions, execute script in an unsafe context, or mislead users. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Goog...

Apple Releases Updates for Java Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6

Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 7 and Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 2 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 Apple...

Default Applications

Under the Programs tab, you can specify your default applications for viewing web sites, email messages, HTML editing and various other network related tasks. You can also disable Internet Explorer from asking you if you would like it to be your default web browser here. See more information on...

International Domain Names and Embedded Sounds

Internationalized Domain Names IDN can be abused to allow spoofing of web page addresses. This can allow phishing attacks to be more convincing. To protect against IDN spoofing in Internet Explorer, enable the Always show encoded addresses option. This will cause IDN addresses to be displayed in ...

Privacy — Handling Cookies

US-CERT recommends that you select the Advanced button and select Override automatic cookie handling. Then select Prompt for both first and third-party cookies. This will prompt you each time a site tries to place a cookie on your machine. If the number of cookie prompts is too excessive, the...

Trusted Sites Zone

The Trusted sites zone is a security zone for sites that you think are safe to visit. You believe that the site is designed with security in mind and that it can be trusted not to contain malicious content. To add or remove sites from this zone, you can click the Sites button. This will open a...

How to Configure Internet Explorer to Stay Secure Online

With assistance from the United States Computer Emergency Response Team US-CERT, this slideshow will walk you through the steps to configure Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to limit the damage from hacker attacks. Keep in mind that, in some cases, these recommended settings may interfere with norma...

Cisco Releases Updates for PGW Softswitch

Cisco has released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco PGW Softswitch. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Cisco security advisory cisco-sa-20100512-pgw and apply any necessary...

Adobe Releases Update for Shockwave Player

Adobe has released a security update to address multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5.6.606 and earlier versions for both Windows and Macintosh operating systems. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. US-CERT encourages users and...

Microsoft Releases May Security Bulletin

Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office, and Visual Basic for Applications as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for May 2010. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. US-CERT encourages users and...

Apple Safari Vulnerability

US-CERT is aware of a vulnerability affecting Apple Safari. By convincing a user to open a specially crafted web page, an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code. Exploit code for this vulnerability is publicly available. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to disable JavaScript as...

iseemedia / Roxio / MGI Software LPViewer - ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)

$Id: lpviewerurl.rb 9262 2010-05-09 17:45:00Z jduck $ This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/framework/...

Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for May Security Bulletin

Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification, indicating that its May release cycle will contain two bulletins. Both of these bulletins will have the severity rating of critical and will be for Microsoft Windows, Office, and Visual Basic for Applications. Release of these bulleti...

Mandriva Update for java-1.6.0-openjdk MDVSA-2010:084 (java-1.6.0-openjdk)

Check for the Version of java-1.6.0-openjdk OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for java-1.6.0-openjdk MDVSA-2010:084 java-1.6.0-openjdk Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can...

Mandriva Update for java-1.6.0-openjdk MDVSA-2010:084 (java-1.6.0-openjdk)

Check for the Version of java-1.6.0-openjdk OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for java-1.6.0-openjdk MDVSA-2010:084 java-1.6.0-openjdk Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can...

Microsoft Releases Security Advisory 983438

Microsoft has released security advisory 983438 to notify users of a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The advisory states that Microsoft is investigating public reports of exploitation of the vulnerability that may allow the...

Google Releases Chrome 4.1.249.1064

Google has released Chrome 4.1.249.1064 for Windows to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or bypass the same origin policy in the browser. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Google Chrome Releases blog ent...

Microsoft Re-Releases Security Update for MS10-025

Microsoft has re-released the security update related to Microsoft security bulletin MS10-025. This vulnerability affects Windows Media Services running on Windows 2000 Server. The original release of this update had been revoked last week because it did not effectively correct the underlying...

Test Webserver SSL Certificate

This plugin uses openssl to verify TLS/SSL Certificates. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 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...