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Google Analytics by Yoast stored XSS #2
OVERVIEW ========== Google Analytics by Yoast is one of the most popular WordPress plug-ins with over 7 million downloads and "1+ million" active installs. Last month Yoast patched a stored XSS we reported in the plug-in. Shortly after this we identified another bug of a similar severity. The...
netty: DoS via memory exhaustion during data aggregation
A flaw was found in the WebSocket08FrameDecoder implementation that could allow a remote attacker to trigger an Out Of Memory Exception by issuing a series of TextWebSocketFrame and ContinuationWebSocketFrames. Depending on the server configuration, this could lead to a denial of service...
Stanford Researchers Find Connecting Metadata With User Names is Simple
One of the key tenets of the argument that the National Security Agency and some lawmakers have constructed to justify the agency’s collection of phone metadata is that the information it’s collecting, such as phone numbers and length of call, can’t be tied to the callers’ names. However, some...
Alliance Issues Guidance for Cloud-Based SIEM Services
The non-profit Cloud Security Alliance today released guidelines for the nascent Security as a Service SecaaS specialization within the broader realm of cloud computing. The goal, the group says, is to help companies and consumers gain a better handle on how best to evaluate, build and deploy...
[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: drupal7-feeds-2.0-0.5.alpha6.fc18
Import or aggregate data as nodes, users, taxonomy terms or simple database records...
In UK Analytics Software Provides Enhanced (Online) Interrogation For Fraud Suspects
A recent report by the UK’s Serious Organized Crime Agency SOCA shows that the Agency is full speed ahead with plans to use powerful data analytics tools to help find and prosecute everything from money laundering to illegal gambling to 419 scams. The 2011 Annual Report on Suspicious Activity...
Why Cyber Crime ? It's All About Data !!
Cyber crime = crime. How do we make police forces understand this and how to get it prioritized? In this series of blogs I am looking into whether aggregating data can change the way cyber crime is approached and prioritized. At a seminar at the IT Security trade fair in Utrecht detective super...
webtv-insecurities.txt
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 21:32:49 -0600 MDT From: mea culpa To: InfoSec News Subject: ISN Web TV owns your cache Forwarded From: Jon http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/zd/zd7.htm 10/12/98- WebTV is watching you From: Inter@ctive Week Online Microsoft Corp.'s WebTV Networks Inc. is quietly using a...