Microsoft Windows Consent User Interface Registry Key Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability that occurs in Consent User Interface. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with 'LocalSystem' privileges. Successful exploits will result in the complete compromise of affected computers...

Hacker Poses as Graduate, Hacks Student Emails, Faces Legal Consequences

A hacker who posed as a university graduate to access the emails of hundreds of students has been given a suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay more than £20,000 in costs and compensation. Daniel Woo, a 23-year-old Bulgarian national, was sentenced for offenses under the Misuse of Computer...

Cisco IOS Software Authentication Proxy Vulnerability - Cisco Systems

Cisco IOS Software configured with Authentication Proxy for HTTPS, Web Authentication or the consent feature, contains a vulnerability that may allow an unauthenticated session to bypass the authentication proxy server or bypass the consent webpage. Cisco has released free software updates that...

Autodesk AutoCAD 2007 dll Hijacking exploit (color.dll)

No description provided by source. / Description: A vulnerability exists in windows that allows other applications dynamic link libraries to execute malicious code without the users consent, in the privelage context of the targeted application. Title: Autocad 2007 Professional dll color.dll...

News feed preview can subscribe to feeds without interaction – Opera Security Advisories

News feed preview can subscribe to feeds without interaction – Opera Security Advisories OPCOM Team | August 12, 2010 Severity Low Description When Opera is previewing a news feed, certain types of content do not have their scripts removed correctly. These scripts are able to subscribe the user t...

It's Time For a New Privacy Model

The current raft of stories about privacy problems on Facebook and other high-profile sites is leading to a renewed consideration in some circles of whether there’s a need for tighter government regulation of sites’ privacy policies and user notifications. Regulation, experts say, may be the only...

Free Blocking Tool to Thwart Drive-By Downloads

Researchers are preparing to release a free tool to stop “drive-by” downloads: Internet attacks in which the mere act of visiting a Web site results in the surreptitious installation of malicious software. The new tool, called BLADE Block All Drive-By Download Exploits, stops downloads that are...

Race condition

Race condition in the Firewall Authentication Proxy feature in Cisco IOS 12.0 through 12.4 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication, or bypass the consent web page, via a crafted request, aka Bug ID CSCsy15227...

KeyLogger: Cheat Monitor

Cheat Monitor is a spyware program that can be used to record information on the computer. Cheat Monitor tracks emails, chats, instant messages, and every keystroke that is entered by the victim. It can also capture screenshots of the infected system and deliver reports to a pre-defined email...

U.S. needs to investigate cyberweapons

Despite what you may have seen on 24 or read in Tom Clancy’s novels, the United States is well behind much of the rest of the world in developing both defensive and offensive cybersecurity capabilities, and that’s a deficit that may end up costing us dearly in the long run, according to a longtim...

Internet Explorer vulnerable in handling CDO protocol

Overview Internet Explorer is vulnerable in handling CDO Collaboration Data Objects protocol, which allows the download dialog box to be bypassed. When Internet Explorer IE accesses a website using CDO Collaboration Data Objects, IE processes the contents as CDO data, ignoring their actual conten...

CVE-2008-0673

TinTin++ 1.97.9 and WinTin++ 1.97.9 open files on the basis of an inbound file-transfer request, before the user has an opportunity to decline the request, which allows remote attackers to truncate arbitrary files in the top level of a home directory...

WEBHANCER Detection

The remote host is using the WEBHANCER program. You should ensure that : - the user intended to install WEBHANCER it is sometimes silently installed - the use of WEBHANCER matches your corporate mandates and security policies. To remove this sort of software, you may wish to check out ad-aware or...

Windows NTLM relaying attacks

Some client program use NTLM authentication with user's permission without user request. It may leak to NTLM credentials and perform choosen challenge attack and comprometation of server's with client credentials by relaying NTLM request...

Apache 2.x - Memory Leak

Apache 2.x - Memory Leak / apache-massacre.c Test code for Apache 2.x Memory Leak By Matthew Murphy DISCLAIMER: This exploit tool is provided only to test networks for a known vulnerability. Do not use this tool on systems you do not control, and do not use this tool on networks you do not own...

Remote crashes in Yahoo messenger

All versions of Yahoo messenger version 5. Listens on port 5101 on client machine. obviously to offload server traffic for IMs problems: for all of the problems listed below, the traffic is sent to the yahoo messenger opened port, 5101 1. One can crash yahoo messenger by overflowing the message...

Microsoft Outlook 98/2000/2002 - Arbitrary Code Execution

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3026/info Microsoft Outlook introduces a vulnerability that may allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands on a target system. The vulnerability is due to a new ActiveX control called 'Microsoft Outlook View Control'. The flaw is that this control is...

Microsoft Outlook 98/2000/2002 - Unauthorized Email Access

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3025/info Microsoft Outlook introduces a vulnerability that may allow attackers to access and manipulate user email. The vulnerability is due to a new ActiveX control called 'Microsoft Outlook View Control'. The flaw is that this control is marked 'safe f...

Security Bulletin MS01-034

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Malformed Word Document Could Enable Macro to Run Automatically Date: 21 June 2001 Software: Word Impact: Run macro without warning Bulletin: MS01-034 Microsoft encourages customers to review the Security Bulletin at:...

IE 5.01 will execute VBA code contained in Access databases when triggered from HTML code contained in an IFRAME

Overview Under certain conditions, Internet Explorer can open Microsoft Access database or project files containing malicious code and execute the code without giving a user prior warning. Access files that are referenced by OBJECT tags in HTML documents can allow attackers to execute arbitrary...