It’s Back to School Time, So How Do I Keep My Child Safe Online?

The end of the summer can be a pretty stressful time for parents as well as their kids. Apart from the prospect of a return to school, there’s a whole checklist of items to get ready. Schoolbag? Check. Sports kit? Check. Smartphone? Check. Internet safety guide? Errr… The truth is that today, the...

LocalTapiola: SQL Injection on `/cs/Satellite` path

Summary There exists an SQL Injection vulnerability on the path /cs/Satellite. This path accepts numerous fields, including blobtable, blobcol, blobkey and blobwhere. It is possible to sufficiently manipulate the the blobwhere field in order to trigger a time-based blind SQL Injection attack. Sco...

Animal Lover's Sweet Zoo Date - Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Animal Lover's Sweet Zoo Date published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Raising your kids to have cyber security awareness

In our Last Month Magazine Issue, Lee Ives from London, England and Admin of Security-FAQs - talk about internet security for your children and what to watch out for and how to protect them and yourself. You can Download Here Special The Hacker News Magazine January 2012 Edition. Have a look the...

Michael Calce Warns of Online Dangers at HDS Canada's Forum

The guest keynote speakers at technology conferences can vary in quality, but Hitachi Data Systems HDS Canada NYSE: HIT made a smart choice by inviting Michael Calce, also known as Mafiaboy, to speak at their recent Information Forum event in Toronto. Calce gained notoriety as a teenage hacker fr...

CYBSEC - Multiple Vendor Web Vulnerability Scanner Arbitrary Script Injection Vulnerability

CYBSEC S.A. www.cybsec.com Advisory Name: Multiple Vendor Web Vulnerability Scanner Arbitrary ============= Script Injection Vulnerability Vulnerability Class: Script Injection ==================== Release Date: 09.01.2005 ============= Affected Applications: ====================== N-Stealth...

"IBM Access Support" (eGatherer) Activex Dangerous Methods Vulnerability

"IBM Access Support" eGatherer Activex Dangerous Methods Vulnerability Release Date: June 15, 2004 Date Reported: February 20, 2004 Patch Development Time In Days: 116 Severity: High Remote Code Execution Vendor: IBM Systems Affected: IBM Access Support eGatherer Activex Version 2.0.0.16 Overview...

SECURITY.NNOV: Courier CPU exhaustion + bonus on imap-uw

Imap-uw allows user to access any file he could access locally. It's not a bug it's insecurity by design. According to vendor's web FAQ it's not pointed in FAQ inside program distribution: -=-=-=-=-=-=- 5.1 I see that the IMAP server allows access to arbitary files on the system, including...

aol-aim-tunnel.txt

The risks of using an AOL client behind a firewall Many users wish to use AOL client or AIM AOL Instant Messenger behind the company firewall. However, opening the firewall for an AOL client can present a security risk to the entire network. AOL client connects to the AOL server at port 5190. Thi...