privoxy -- multiple vulnerabilities

Privoxy Developers reports: Prevent invalid reads in case of corrupt chunk-encoded content. CVE-2016-1982. Bug discovered with afl-fuzz and AddressSanitizer. Remove empty Host headers in client requests. Previously they would result in invalid reads. CVE-2016-1983. Bug discovered with afl-fuzz an...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: prosody-0.9.9-2.fc23

Prosody is a flexible communications server for Jabber/XMPP written in Lua. It aims to be easy to use, and light on resources. For developers it aims to be easy to extend and give a flexible system on which to rapidly develop added functionality, or prototype new protocols...

Google 'Android N' Will Not Use Oracle's Java APIs

Google appears to be no longer using Java application programming interfaces APIs from Oracle in future versions of its Android mobile operating system, and switching to an open source alternative instead. Google will be making use of OpenJDK – an open source version of Oracle’s Java Development...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: sos-3.2-2.fc23

Sos is a set of tools that gathers information about system hardware and configuration. The information can then be used for diagnostic purposes and debugging. Sos is commonly used to help support technicians and developers...

Damn Vulnerable Node Application: DVNA

Damn Vulnerable Node Application DVNA is a node.js web application that is damn vulnerable. Its main goal is to be an aid for security professionals to test their skills and tools in a legal environment, help web developers better understand the processes of securing web applications and to aid...

Coinbase: Stored-XSS in https://www.coinbase.com/

Coinbase was mistakenly allowing developers to set their website or developer URL to a javascript:// or data:// URL. This link would then be rendered into the OAuth authorization page and leave users vulnerable to XSS if they clicked on it...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: python-cryptography-1.0.2-2.fc23

cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers...

obby Service Detection

The script checks the presence of an obby service. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 SCHUTZWERK GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later ifdescription...

Apple's Biggest Hack Ever: 4000 Malicious iOS Store Apps Linked to CIA?

The First major cyber attack on Apple's App Store has now been linked to CIA Central Intelligence Agency. Last week, Researchers disclosed some 39 iOS apps on Apple's App Store infected by 'XCodeGhost Malware'. The Bad News is that the infection has now increased exponentially with the discovery ...

XcodeGhost Apple AppStore Malware

As more eyes peer into XcodeGhost, the malware that managed to sneak into Apple’s App Store, more trouble bubbles to the surface. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks said in an updated report that the malware contains a vulnerability that allows an attacker in man-in-the-middle position to control...

ZAP 2.4.2 - Penetration Testing Tool for Testing Web Applications

The Zed Attack Proxy ZAP is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who are new to penetration testin...

Twitter Open Sources 'Diffy' that Automatically Catches Potential Bugs in Code

After, Facebook open sourced Thrift Technology an internally used tool by Facebook in 2007, rival entity Twitter brings Diffy, an internal Twitter service to the world. Yesterday, Twitter introduced "Diffy," an open source tool, acting as a helping hand for the software developers to catch bugs,...

Mantis Bug Tracker 1.2.19 - Host Header

Exploit Title: MantisBT 1.2.19 - Host header attack vulnerability Date: 07-09-2015 Exploit Author: Pier-Luc Maltais Centre opérationnel de sécurité informatique gouvernemental COSIG Vendor Homepage: https://www.mantisbt.org/ Software Link:...

Microsoft Office 2016 for Windows coming on September 22

Earlier this year, Microsoft had announced to bring its Office 2016 soon to the world. Also, Office 2016 software version for Mac was released in July 2015. Now speculations gearing up are hinting towards a final release date of Office 2016 for Windows as 22nd September 2015. Though, for Window...

Hack Codegen - Facebook Open-Sources Code That Writes Code

Good news for Open Source Lovers! Facebook has open-sourced Hack Codegen – its library for automatically generating Hack code, allowing outside developers to automate some of their routine work while developing large programs. HACK is the Facebook's own programming language designed to build...

Fedora 21 : drupal7-migrate-2.8-1.fc21 (2015-11314)

7.x-2.8 See SA-CONTRIB-2015-130 Features and enhancements - Issue 2379289: migrate-import --update does not seem to work as expected, if map is not joinable, due to highwater field? - Issue 2403643: Migration::applyMappings unable to handle multifield subfields - Issue 2472045: Add language...

Cloud Source Repositories: Google Quietly Launches GitHub Competitor

After the death of Google code this winter, Google is apparently back in the business through the launch of its private Git repository hosting service on Google Cloud Platform called Cloud Source Repositories. Not yet officially announced, but Google started providing free beta access to its new...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: python-requests-2.7.0-1.fc21

Most existing Python modules for sending HTTP requests are extremely verbos e and cumbersome. Python=E2=80=99s built-in urllib2 module provides most of the H TTP capabilities you should need, but the API is thoroughly broken. This librar y is designed to make HTTP requests easy for developers...

Apple Pushing Developers Toward HTTPS Connections in Apps

Apple is encouraging developers who create apps for iOS to begin moving their apps to an HTTPS-only model as soon as possible in an effort to thwart eavesdropping on insecure, plaintext HTTP connections. The move is yet one more sign that major Internet and technology companies are becoming ever...

Damn Vulnerable Web App - PHP/MySQL Training Web Application that is Damn Vulnerable

Damn Vulnerable Web App DVWA is a PHP/MySQL web application that is damn vulnerable. Its main goals are to be an aid for security professionals to test their skills and tools in a legal environment, help web developers better understand the processes of securing web applications and aid...