Four years on, phone-hacking scandal is still growing !

Four years after the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World saw the newspaper's former royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, jailed, the story refuses to die. Each week another celebrity launches a legal action against the paper, generating a fresh batch of damaging allegations that Rupert...

Microsoft Adds Tracking Protection to IE 9

Microsoft has pushed out a new release candidate of Internet Explorer 9 that includes two new privacy protections designed to enable consumers to prevent tracking by some Web sites. The new IE 9 release candidate has two separate, but related, technologies aimed at giving users more control over...

FTC Pushes "Do Not Track" Option For Web Browsers

The Federal Trade Commission introduced a framework today that aims to address privacy issues raised by consumers that directly affects how our activity is tracked online. The agency went on to advocate the creation of a “Do Not Track” mechanism that could help shape the future of browser securit...

Europe tests cyber defences against hackers

BRUSSELS AFP – European computer guards battled Thursday against a simulated attempt by hackers to bring down critical Internet services in the first pan-continental test of cyber defences. All 27 of the European Union's member nations as well as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland took part in the...

Civil Liberties Grade Drops for Obama Administration in Latest Privacy Report

The Electronic Privacy Information Center EPIC has released its annual Privacy Report Card for the Obama Administration. Compared to last year's results, the administration has retained its good grade in only one privacy subject: cybersecurity. "One of the most difficult subjects for any...

Senate Listens to Data Breach Testimony

The Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance heard testimony on from several witnesses yesterday regarding the proposed national data breach legislation, including Maneesha Mithal of the Federal Trade Commission FTC and Mark Bregman, CTO of Symantec. Read the full...

Shopping Cart Script With Affiliate Program SQL Injection

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AdMan Standalone Ad Server Cross Site Scripting / SQL Injection

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Shopping Cart Script with Affiliate Program - SQL Injection

Shopping Cart Script with Affiliate Program - SQL Injection Author: L0rd CrusAd3r aka VSN [email protected] Exploit Title:Shopping Cart Script with Affiliate Program SQL Injection Vendor url:http://www.yourfreeworld.com Version:n/a Price:399$ Published: 2010-06-19 Greetz to:Sid3^effects, MaYu...

Consumer Advocates in Facebook's Face

This week, the Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a 38-page complaint against Facebook with the Federal Trade Commission, demanding it cancel new features introduced in mid-April that compel users to share more information than before. Read the full article. Computerworld...

80K Records' Breached in Iowa Gaming Hack

Around 80,000 Iowa employee names, birth dates and social security numbers have been exposed after an Iowa Gaming Commission server was hacked. Read the full article. Secure Computing...

Oklahoma Tax Commission Hacked

The website of the Oklahoma Tax Commission was the apparent victim of a hack yesterday, one in which visitors to the website were prompted to accept an Adobe license agreement and download software. Read the full article. Infosecurity...

FTC pulls plug on spam, child porn ISP

A rogue Internet Service Provider that recruits, knowingly hosts, and actively participates in the distribution of spam, child pornography, and other harmful electronic content has been shut down by a district court judge at the request of the Federal Trade Commission. The ISP’s upstream provider...

Counterpoint: The need for a cybersecurity czar is real

As everyone prepares to examine the results of the Obama Administration’s cyber-security review, one of the largest issues in play remains to what extent the White House will embrace recommendations to create a Cabinet-level position to address the matter or some role superior to today’s “cyber...

FTC: ID theft cases surge

The number of identification theft cases surged in 2008, according to a report .pdf based on the Federal Trade Commission’s annual data. In 2008, ID theft was by far the biggest complaint to the FTC, representing 26 percent of complaints. The next biggest complaint — third party and creditor debt...

Google launching members-only security forum

internetnews.com’s Kenneth Corbin has the scoop on plans by Google to launch a members-only security forum for businesses, law enforcement, government agencies and others to combat malware and fraud on the Web. In addition to Google, the Internet Security Community will draw participation from...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.newzealandhc.org.uk

Security researcher Narcoticxs, has submitted on 20/03/2007 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.newzealandhc.org.uk, which at the time of submission ranked 6632297 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 20/03/2007. I...

Free ClickBank Search Engine SQL inj. vuln.

Free ClickBank Search Engine SQL inj. vuln. Vuln. dicovered by : r0t Date: 1 dec. 2005 Orginal advisory:http://pridels.blogspot.com/2005/12/free-clickbank-search-engine-sql-inj.html Vendor:http://phpfreebies.com/free-clickbank-search-engine-script.php affected version:1.0 and prior Product...

EU Browser Choice Update-For Europe Only

The Browser Choice update is a software update for Windows that Microsoft is required to distribute in Europe as part of a legal Commitment to the European Commission. The Browser Choice update, once installed, will auto launch on PCs that have the control panel location set to an EEA nation and...