Netflix Open Source Security Tools Solve Range of Challenges

Few organizations experience the scale of Web-based application security challenges that Netflix engineers deal with on a regular basis. Sometimes the response to a threat requires a homespun tool that, more often than not, ends up being released to open source. “Our assumption is that we...

AOL Breached, Investigating Spam from Spoofed Accounts

AOL reported today that it has been breached and urges users of its web-based email and other online services to change their passwords. AOL’s investigation of a breach of its internal network and systems is under way with the help of federal authorities and a forensics firm, the company said. La...

Avira AntiVir antivirus privilege escalation

Privilege escalation with chatter attack...

CVE-2005-0863

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in PHPOpenChat v3.x allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via 1 the chatter parameter to regulars.php or 2 the chatter, chatter1, chatter2, chatter3, or chatter4 parameters to register.php...