VMware vCenter Chargeback Manager Installed

VMware vCenter Chargeback Manager, a cost reporting application, is installed on the remote Windows host. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid66896; scriptversion"1.9"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate", value:"2022/10/10";...

How Much Does A Botnet Cost?

The cost of a botnet is contingent largely upon the physical location of the malware-infected computers inside of it. Therefore, a botnet containing only American or European machines is worth more than one with machines from less prosperous nations. Security researcher Dancho Danchev recently...

ClubHack 2012 Hacking and Security Conference

Carrying reputation of being India's choicest and oldest hacker's conference, Team ClubHack proudly brings the 6th edition of ClubHack Hacking and Security Conference with more exciting activities. ClubHack 2012 hacker's convention will be held from Nov. 30th to Dec 3rd, 2012 in Pune, India...

HackRF Jawbreaker Could Bring Low-Cost Wireless Hacking to the Masses

Generations of hobbyists hardware hackers have spent countless hours messing with piles of radio gear, happily tinkering away in garages and basements looking for new ways to connect to people around the world. Now, a researcher has put together a new radio called HackRF that is a kind of...

Infographic: Veracode on Mobile Security and Protecting Your Device

Veracode have put out another snazzy infographic, this time to help illustrate the mobile computing boom of the last few years. To accompany the BYOD Bring Your Own Device policy that’s becoming commonplace in offices around the world, the web security firm uses two characters, Joe Worker and Joe...

ASTPP VoIP Billing (4cf207a) - Multiple Vulnerabilities

ASTPP VoIP Billing 4cf207a - Multiple Vulnerabilities Title: ====== ASTPP VoIP Billing 4cf207a - Multiple Web Vulnerabilities Date: ===== 2012-08-17 References: =========== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=687 VL-ID: ===== 687 Common Vulnerability Scoring System:...

ActFax 4.31 Local Privilege Escalation Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits !/usr/bin/python Title: ActFax 4.31 Local Privilege Escalation Exploit Author: Craig Freyman @cd1zz Discovered: July 10, 2012 Vendor Notified: June 12, 2012 Description: http://www.pwnag3.com/2012/08/actfax-local-privilege-escalation.html...

Wireless Carriers See Spike in Cell Phone Records Requests

Some of the nation’s largest wireless carriers say they last year collectively received some 1.3 million requests from law enforcement for customers’ phone records – a number that continues to rise. The information shared with police includes geolocation information, content of text messages,...

Pobol WebBasic - SQL Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications 1-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=0 0 1 1 /' \ /'\ /\ \ /'\ 0 0 /, \ /\/\ \ \ \ \ ,/\ /\ \ 1 1 //\ \ /' \ /\ //\ Exploit database separated by exploit 0 0 // type local, remote, DoS, etc. 1 1 1 0 +...

Brad Arkin

In a keynote on Thursday, Brad Arkin, Adobe’s Senior Director of Product Security and Privacy spoke on driving up the cost of exploits in products like Reader and Flash Player in an attempt to thwart would-be attackers. Fixing every security bug is often impossible, so instead of writing flawless...

Hackers Plan Satellite Network to Fight Internet Censorship

A group of hackers are reportedly declaring war on Internet censorship, and they plan to fight back with their own satellite communications network. Sound like science fiction? According to BBC News, the plan was recently outlined at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. Dubbed the...

Invitation for DEF-CON Chennai January Meet 2012 (DC602028)

Invitation for DEF-CON Chennai January Meet 2012 DC602028 We like to invite all of you for our 4th meet which is going to held on 29th January 2012. DEF-CON Chennai is a registered group of DEF-CON, our group id is DC602028. Tickets for the Meet For General Public : 700 INR For Students: 600 INR ...

Man-in-the-Middle Remote Attack on Diebold Touch-screen Voting Machine

Man-in-the-Middle Remote Attack on Diebold Touch-screen Voting Machine The Vulnerability Assessment Team VAT at the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois has managed to hack a Diebold Accuvote touch-screen voting machine. Voting machines used by as many as a quarter of...

Norton Cybercrime Report 2011

Norton Cybercrime Report 2011 For the first time a Norton study calculates the cost of global cybercrime: $114 billion annually.Based on the value victims surveyed placed on time lost due to their cybercrime experiences, an additional $274 billion was lost. With 431 million adult victims globally...

Norton Cybercrime Report 2011

Norton Cybercrime Report 2011 For the first time a Norton study calculates the cost of global cybercrime: $114 billion annually.Based on the value victims surveyed placed on time lost due to their cybercrime experiences, an additional $274 billion was lost. With 431 million adult victims globally...

Making an Application Security Program Succeed, Part Two

“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely,” is a quote attributed to legendary automaker Henry Ford. While it seemingly has nothing to do with secure application development, all you need to do is talk to a handful of enterprises who have tried to implement a...

In Application Security, Good Enough Isn't

SAN FRANCISCO–There’s the old joke about two hunters running from a lion, and the one runner says to the other: we can’t outrun the lion. And his buddy replied, “I don’t have to outrun the lion, I only have to outrun you.” Many, over the years, have applied the same logic to application security:...

New Cheap Toolkit Makes Anyone a Facebook App Developer

New cheap toolkits give amateur developers the ability to create their own viral Facebook applications, something that’s become a favorite activity of attackers in recent months. One example of a malicious Facebook application that could have easily been created using this toolkit is the ‘Faceboo...

Real SEO Feeding Traffic to Fake Search Engines

Online scam artists are using black hat search engine optimization SEO techniques to push more than just malicious software. In fact, SEO is increasingly being used to drive traffic to a range of phony Web based search engines that are feeding cost-per-click advertising scams, according to a blog...

The Effect of Snake Oil Security

I’ve talked about this a few times over the years during various presentations but I wanted to document it here as well. It’s a concept that I’ve been wrestling with for 7+ years and I don’t think I’ve made any headway in convincing anyone, beyond a few head nods. Bad security isn’t just bad...