BBC music websites get hacked !

THE BBC'S MUSIC WEBSITES have been hacked to stream malware using drive-by downloads for anyone browsing the infected webpages. Hackers set the drive-by malware up at the BBC's 6 Music website and the BBC 1Xtra radio station website. Researchers at the insecurity outfit Websense found the exploit...

BBC Sites Serving Malware

The websites of the BBC’s 6 music and 1Xtra radio stations have been injected with a malicious iframe and are redirecting users to a site serving up malware according to a Websense report Tuesday. The iframe, on both the BBC 6 music and 1Xtra webpages, is loading code from a malicious website fro...

CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2010:0936 centos4 i386

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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

Analysis of PHP programs in the directory traversal vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

| The depths of winter and the eve of Directory traversalvulnerabilityboth at home and abroad have many different names,for example, can also be called information leakagevulnerability,non-authorized files contains avulnerability. The name though,but they have a common Genesis,is in the program n...

White House E-Card Scam Part of Larger Zeus-Related Attack !

The simplistic spam campaign that hit around Christmas and purported to be a holiday greeting from the White House not only included a piece of Zeus-related malware that searches hard drives for documents and uploads them to a remote server, but also appears to be connected to a similar attack fr...

Major Ad Networks Found Serving Malicious Ads

Two major online ad networks–DoubleClick and MSN–were serving malware via drive-by download exploits over the last week, experts say, after a group of attackers was able to trick the networks into displaying their ads by impersonating an online advertising provider. The scheme involved a group of...

RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2010:0936-01

Check for the Version of kernel OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for kernel RHSA-2010:0936-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

SuSE 11 Security Update : cpio (SAT Patch Number 2198)

This update fixes a heap-based buffer overflow flaw that can happen while expanding specially crafted archive files. CVE-2010-0624 - This updates Dat160 Tape Drive density information bnc415166 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

6) (Anti) social networking

Social networks like Facebook and Twitter are fabulous platforms for sharing information and news. Retailers of all stripes have tapped into this and are using them to get the word out – virally – about discounts, sales and in-store events. Unfortunately, mechanisms for vetting online reputation...

Set your Web browsers to "stun"…it's the online holiday shopping season. Here are ten tips for surviving it without getting yourself p4wn3d

Cyber Monday is billed as the biggest online shopping day of the year, with deep discounts from online merchants. But the truth is that your online shopping isn’t anywhere near done now that its passed, any more than your in store shopping is done now that the 3:00 AM Black Friday door buster...

Web-Based Malware Doubles from 2009, Likely to Persist in 2011

There’s been a significant uptick in Web-based malware, with infections nearly double those from this time last year, and predictions are that Web based attacks will get worse before they get better. In their Q3 Malware Update, security firm Dasient estimated there were over 1.5 million malicious...

Infected Web sites double in 2010 : A Report

The number of Web sites infected with malware has doubled from a year ago to more than 1.2 million, according to a study released today by Internet security company Dasient. Not only are social-media sites getting targeted, but sites of larger government agencies increasingly are hit, including t...

Drive-By Downloads Still Running Wild

For some time now, the browser has been the most dangerous piece of software on the Web, and to hear researchers tell it, the climate it likely to get far worse before it gets any better. The attack landscape has shifted in a lot of important ways in the last few years, but none of the changes ha...

Amnesty International Site Found Hosting Malware, IE Zero Day

Researchers at security firm Websense have found that Amnesty International’s Hong Kong site, amnesty.org.hk, is serving up a cocktail of malware that includes last week’s Internet Explorer 0-day. Visitors to the human rights organization’s site operating versions 6 and 7 of IE are being targeted...

New Bug in Internet Explorer Used in Targeted Attacks

There’s a new flaw in all of the current versions of Internet Explorer that is being used in some targeted attacks right now. Microsoft has confirmed the bug and said it is working on a fix, but has no timeline for the patch release yet. The company did not rule out an emergency out-of-band patch...

XAMPP 1.7.3 Cross Site Scripting / File Disclosure

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Mozilla Confirms Critical Firefox Bug, Readies Fix

Mozilla is working on a patch for the recently disclosed critical bug in Firefox that has been exploited on at least one prominent Web site this week. The vulnerability in Firefox is being used by attackers in drive-by download attacks to install malware on victims’ machines. Mozilla’s security...

Inside Google's Anti-Malware Operation

TORONTO–A Google malware researcher gave a rare peek inside the company’s massive anti-malware and anti-phishing efforts at the SecTor conference here, and the data that the company has gathered shows that the attackers who make it their business to infect sites and exploit users are adapting the...

Report: More Than 1 Million Web Sites Serving Malware in Q2

Web anti malware firm Dasient has published data claiming that more than 1 million Web sites were compromised in the second quarter, 2010 – a sharp increase. More than one million Web domains were infected with malicious code in the second quarter of 2010 – around one percent of all active Web...

Mozilla Patches Firefox DLL Load Hijacking Bug

Mozilla has joined Apple in being among the first to fix the DLL load hijacking attack vector that continues to haunt hundreds of Windows applications. The open-source group released Firefox 3.6.9 with patches for a total of 15 vulnerabilities 11 rated critical, including the publicly known DLL...