Analysis of the New Adobe Flash Attacks

When Adobe warned customers earlier this week about a newly discovered vulnerability in the Flash Player software, company officials said that there were already attacks underway against the bug. Those attacks are using malicious Flash files buried in Word documents and Microsoft’s security...

DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1400

The default configuration of the shellescapecommands directive in conf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf in the tex-common package before 2.08.1 in Debian GNU/Linux squeeze, Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04 LTS, and possibly other operating systems lists certain programs, which might allow remote attackers to execute...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : clamav (SAT Patch Number 4155)

Specially crafted VBA data in Microsoft Office documents could crash clamav or potentially even cause execution of arbitrary code. clamav was updated to version 0.97 to fix the issue. CVE-2011-1003 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in thi...

Windows Gather Dump Recent Files lnk Info

The dumplinks module is a modified port of Harlan Carvey's lslnk.pl Perl script. This module will parse .lnk files from a user's Recent Documents folder and Microsoft Office's Recent Documents folder, if present. Windows creates these link files automatically for many common file types. The .lnk...

SuSE Update for acroread SUSE-SA:2011:011

Check for the Version of acroread OpenVAS Vulnerability Test SuSE Update for acroread SUSE-SA:2011:011 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

SUSE: Security Advisory for acroread (SUSE-SA:2011:011)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

Anonymous Publishes Bank of America Documents, Alleges Fraud

The hacker collective known as Anonymous published a collection of e-mail messages that allege mortgage fraud at U.S. banking giant Bank of America. The documents – more than two dozen e-mail messages – are from Balboa Insurance Group, a Bank of America subsidiary that provides insurance for auto...

Anonymous Hackers will Expose Something Awful About Bank Of America On Monday !

There's something about Bank of America that seems to make it a magnet for controversy, anger, and internet activism. Last year Wikileaks' Julian Assange said he had documents on a major bank -- everyone kind of figured that it was Bank of America -- though it now seems that there isn't much to i...

More than 150 French Government systems hacked !

The French Ministry of Finance was hit by an unprecedented cyber attack in December, with over 150 computers compromised, according to reports. Hackers got their hands on documents related to the current French presidency of the G20 and international economic affairs, Paris Match reported. Patric...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : acroread (SAT Patch Number 4057)

Specially crafted PDF documents can crash acroread or lead to execution of arbitrary code. Acroread has been updated to version 9.4.2 to address the issues CVE-2010-4091 / CVE-2011-0562 / CVE-2011-0563 / CVE-2011-0565 / CVE-2011-0566 / CVE-2011-0567 / CVE-2011-0570 / CVE-2011-0585 / CVE-2011-0586...

SuSE 10 Security Update : acroread (ZYPP Patch Number 7358)

Specially crafted PDF documents can crash acroread or lead to execution of arbitrary code. Acroread has been updated to version 9.4.2 to address the issues CVE-2010-4091 / CVE-2011-0562 / CVE-2011-0563 / CVE-2011-0565 / CVE-2011-0566 / CVE-2011-0567 / CVE-2011-0570 / CVE-2011-0585 / CVE-2011-0586...

SuSE 10 Security Update : acroread_ja (ZYPP Patch Number 7359)

Specially crafted PDF documents can crash acroread or lead to execution of arbitrary code. Acroread has been updated to version 9.4.2 to address the issues CVE-2010-4091 / CVE-2011-0562 / CVE-2011-0563 / CVE-2011-0565 / CVE-2011-0566 / CVE-2011-0567 / CVE-2011-0570 / CVE-2011-0585 / CVE-2011-0586...

[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: TeXmacs-1.0.7.9-2.fc14

GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was both inspired by TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a WYSIWYG what-you-see-is-what-you-get and user friendly interface. New styles may be created by the user. The program implements high-quality...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: TeXmacs-1.0.7.9-2.fc15

GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was both inspired by TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a WYSIWYG what-you-see-is-what-you-get and user friendly interface. New styles may be created by the user. The program implements high-quality...

javascript: URLs in chrome documents (MFSA 2011-08)

The nsIScriptableUnescapeHTML.parseFragment method in the ParanoidFragmentSink protection mechanism in Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.17 and 3.6.x before 3.6.14, Thunderbird before 3.1.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.12 does not properly sanitize HTML in a chrome document, which makes it easier for remot...

CVE-2011-1117

Google Chrome before 9.0.597.107 does not properly handle XHTML documents, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors that lead to "stale nodes."...

CVE-2011-1117

Google Chrome before 9.0.597.107 does not properly handle XHTML documents, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors that lead to "stale nodes."...

Hardcoded credentials

Google Chrome before 9.0.597.107 does not properly handle XHTML documents, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors that lead to "stale nodes."...

PT-2011-2807 · Cisco +1 · Clamav +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: ClamAV versions prior to 0.97 Description: A double free vulnerability exists in the vba read project strings function in vba extract.c in libclamav. This issue might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted Visual Basic f...

Microsoft accuses former manager of stealing 600 MB of confidential docs !

Microsoft yesterday accused a former manager of taking hundreds of megabytes of confidential company material when he left the firm for a new position at CRM rival Salesforce.com. In a motion filed with a Washington State Superior Court Thursday, Microsoft alleged that Matt Miszewski, formerly a...