Virus War : Be aware of bogus e-mails !

The past year reached a new record high for bogus e-mails that clog people's inboxes and can release damaging and costly viruses on computers. Nearly 90 percent of sent e-mail is a ruse to rip off unsuspecting Internet users, according to data released by the computer security firm Symantec. The...

Iran's Intelligence Minister Admits to Hacking Opposition Emails

Iran's Intelligence Minister, Heydar Moslehi, has publicly admitted to hacking the emails of opposition members. Iranian news agencies, including ILNA, quoted Moslehi stating that emails were the primary communication tool for opposition members during last year's postelection protests. The...

Husband Faces Prison for Accessing Wife's Private Emails

A Michigan man faces prison time for accessing a laptop at his home and reading his wife's email. Leon Walker, 33, was charged with a felony after accessing his wife Clara Walker's email account and discovering she was having an affair, reported the Detroit Free Press. Upon discovering that his...

FBI Investigates Gawker Media Hack Claimed by Gnosis

The FBI is investigating the massive hack of Gawker Media. Reports indicate that FBI agents met with Gawker Media CEO Nick Denton on Monday following the hacking incident, which was claimed by a group called Gnosis. The Gawker website was paralyzed, temporarily forcing the gossip site to stop...

CVE-2009-5035

The Nokia client in IBM Lotus Notes Traveler before 8.5.0.2 does not properly handle multiple outgoing e-mail messages between sync operations, which might allow remote attackers to read communications intended for other recipients by examining appended messages...

CVE-2009-5035

The Nokia client in IBM Lotus Notes Traveler before 8.5.0.2 does not properly handle multiple outgoing e-mail messages between sync operations, which might allow remote attackers to read communications intended for other recipients by examining appended messages...

Brazilian Government IDs Used as Spear Phish Bait

Brazilians are the target of new and devilishly convincing e-mail-based scams that purport to be official customer communication from a large Brazilian bank and use stolen identity data to convince victims that the message is for real. According to a post on Kaspersky Lab’s Securelist blog,...

Bredolab Botnet Crackdown Could Have Wide Impact

A Dutch cyber crime unit has disrupted the operation of the Bredolab botnet and arrested an Armenian man believed to be the operator of the global malware distribution hub. In a statement on Monday, the Dutch Public Ministry said that the country’s High Tech Crime Team THTC, working in cooperatio...

DEBIAN-CVE-2010-3476

Open Ticket Request System OTRS 2.3.x before 2.3.6 and 2.4.x before 2.4.8 does not properly handle the matching of Perl regular expressions against HTML e-mail messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via a large message, a different vulnerability than...

Ipswitch Imail Server - List Mailer Reply-To Address Memory Corruption

''' | / |/ \ /\ | | | | \ | \ / | | | | / \ | | | | | | | |/| | | | |/ /\ | | | | To: To Person """ ReplayCount = 5 while ReplayCount0: message = message + "Reply-To:" counter = 3 while counter0: if counter != 50000 : message = message + "," message = message + "Reply-To: " message = message +...

OTRS -- Multiple XSS and denial of service vulnerabilities

OTRS Security Advisory reports: Multiple Cross Site Scripting issues: Missing HTML quoting allows authenticated agents or customers to inject HTML tags. This vulnerability allows an attacker to inject script code into the OTRS web-interface which will be loaded and executed in the browsers of...

New Email Worm Turns Back the Clock on Virus Attacks

There appears to be an actual email worm in circulation right now, using the tried-and-true infection method of sending malicious emails to all of the names in a user’s email address book. As of Friday afternoon, the malicious files had been deleted from the remote server in the UK that was servi...

Omnistar Mailer SQL Injection & XSS Vulnerability

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Fake Government Email Spam Hides Zbot

Attention-piquing malicious spam emails purportedly coming from the DHS, the Pentagon or the Transportation Security Administration have recently been spotted by researchers. Read the full article. Help Net Security...

Gmail Checker Plus Chrome Extension Cross Site Scripting / Cross Site Request Forgery

Gmail Checker plus Chrome extension XSS/CSRF II extension: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gffjhibehnempbkeheiccaincokdjbfe advisore:http://lostmon.blogspot.com/2010/06/gmail-checker-plus-chrome-extension.html Exploit available:yes vendor notify: NO So in this case "Google Mail Checke...

Zeus Trojan Campaign Warning

US-CERT is aware of public reports of malicious code circulating via spam email messages impersonating the Department of Homeland Security DHS. The attacks arrive via unsolicited email messages that may contain subject lines related to DHS or other government activity. These messages may contain ...

PayPal to Fight Phishing at User Level

PayPal is asking UK customers to download software to help identify genuine e-mails sent by the eBay unit and weed out phishing messages. Read the full article. finextra.com...

IRS Phishing Scam Targets Corporations

Fake emails claiming to be from the IRS are a variation of the usual IRS phishing expeditions that typically target end users during tax time, but this campaign aims to infect organizational machines through corporate rather than personal email. Read the full article. Infosecurity...

Mandriva Update for roundcubemail MDVSA-2010:015 (roundcubemail)

Check for the Version of roundcubemail OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for roundcubemail MDVSA-2010:015 roundcubemail Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it...

Google Attackers Used Internet Explorer Zero Day

Several of the companies victimized in the attack that hit Google and dozens of other companies recently were compromised through the use of a new, unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer, experts say. The flaw was used in a sophisticated attack that included victims receiving targeted email...