Own the Email, Own the Person

For attackers looking to take control of a victim’s online presence, there is no better place to start than the target’s email account. If you own the email, you own the person. That’s never been more true than today, with so many social networks, services and shopping sites attached to users’...

Researcher Finds iPhone Bug Allows SMS Spoofing

The iPhone SMS app contains a quirky bug that could allow someone to send a user a text message that appears to come from any number that the sender specifies. The researcher who discovered the bug said that it could be used by attackers to spoof messages from a bank or credit card company and se...

Malicious Olympic 2012 Android Apps & Domains

Whenever an important event takes place, new opportunities for cyber criminals, especially for those who develop attacks based on social engineering, arise. Currently, the whole world has its eyes glued to TV screens watching the London 2012 Olympic Games. Anti-malware and anti-virus solutions...

Joomla joomgalaxy 1.2.0.4 multiple defects and repair-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Title: Joomla joomgalaxy 1.2.0.4 Multiple Vulnerabilites Author: Daniel Barragan "D4NB4R" Developer: http://www.joomgalaxy.com/ Affected version: 1.2.0.4 last update on Jul 2 7, 2 0 1 2 Test platform: Linuxbt5-Windows7ultimate Description Joomgalaxy is a rich, comprehensive directory component...

Gizmodo gets hacked via Apple tech support

Is your iCloud account secured by a good password? Please Don't rely on the cloud. Here's a terrifying tale of modern hacking. Mat Honan, a reporter at tech site Gizmodo, was playing with his daughter when his phone went dead. Thinking it was a software glitch, he rebooted, and went to log in to...

Openconstructor CMS 3.12.0 Reflected XSS

Title: Openconstructor CMS 3.12.0 Multiple Reflected Cross-site Scrpting vulnerabilities Affected Software: http://www.openconstructor.org/ http://code.google.com/p/openconstructor/downloads/list http://esectorsolutions.com/about/whats-new/esector-news/detailed/?id=234 Description: Openconstructo...

Joomla! Component com_joomgalaxy 1.2.0.4 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Joomla! Component comjoomgalaxy 1.2.0.4 - Multiple Vulnerabilities Exploit Title: Joomla joomgalaxy 1.2.0.4 Multiple Vulnerabilites dork: inurl:comjoomgalaxy Date: 01-08-2012 Author: Daniel Barragan "D4NB4R" Twitter: @D4NB4R site: http://poisonsecurity.wordpress.com/ Vendor:...

Joomla Joomgalaxy 1.2.0.4 Shell Upload / SQL Injection

Exploit Title: Joomla joomgalaxy 1.2.0.4 Multiple Vulnerabilites dork: inurl:comjoomgalaxy Date: 01-08-2012 Author: Daniel Barragan "D4NB4R" Twitter: @D4NB4R site: http://poisonsecurity.wordpress.com/ Vendor: http://www.joomgalaxy.com/ Version: 1.2.0.4 last update on Jul 27, 2012 License:...

Joomla! Component com_joomgalaxy 1.2.0.4 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Exploit Title: Joomla joomgalaxy 1.2.0.4 Multiple Vulnerabilites dork: inurl:comjoomgalaxy Date: 01-08-2012 Author: Daniel Barragan "D4NB4R" Twitter: @D4NB4R site: http://poisonsecurity.wordpress.com/ Vendor: http://www.joomgalaxy.com/ Version: 1.2.0.4 last update on Jul 27, 2012 License:...

Small windows can be used in several ways to trick users into executing downloads

When the download dialog is displayed, it should always be visible to the user, to ensure that the user realizes it is there. If the dialog is displayed in a small enough window, the user may not realize it is being displayed, and if the right keyboard sequence is carefully followed, they can end...

Small windows can be used in several ways to trick users into executing downloads – Opera Security Advisories

When the download dialog is displayed, it should always be visible to the user, to ensure that the user realizes it is there. If the dialog is displayed in a small enough window, the user may not realize it is being displayed, and if the right keyboard sequence is carefully followed, they can end...

Scientific Linux Security Update : dhcp on SL3.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64

The Mandriva Linux Engineering Team discovered a stack-based buffer overflow flaw in the ISC DHCP client. If the DHCP client were to receive a malicious DHCP response, it could crash or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the client root. CVE-2009-0692 An insecure temporary file use fl...

Trojan Downloader Determines OS, Infects Systems With Custom Malware

A new downloader uncovered by researchers at the Finnish security firm F-Secure is capable of sniffing out which operating system a user is running and infecting them with a custom malicious payload. F-Secure’s Karmina Aquino discovered the attack on a compromised Colombian transport website. The...

Startup CrowdStrike Launches Crowd-Sourced Platform for Malware Analysis

Venture funded startup CrowdStrike has launched a new platform that will allow security researchers to work collaboratively to reverse engineer and analyze malicious code. The new platform, CrowdRE, was designed to resemble conventional software version control systems, with features that allow...

Sun iPlanet Error Page Link Injection

Sun iPlanet Error Page Link Injection known about long time, but no CVE! probably because this really lame vulnerability! some security pro will say this good for social engineering and give cyberwar example! GET...

Dove Forums 1.0.3 Cross Site Request Forgery

In The Name Of Allah +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Exploit Title:Dove Forums-Add admin CSRF @@@@@ | Date : 2012-06-26 @ @ + Author :Ashiyane Digitl Security Team @ @@@ @ | Vendor :http://www.doveforums.com/ @ @ @ @ + Version: 1.0.3 @ @@ ...

Google Data Shows Attack and Phishing Sites Increasing Rapidly

The number of compromised sites detected each month by Google’s antimalware and anti-phishing systems has been dropping rather steadily from a peak of more than 300,000 in early 2009 and is now down around 150,000. However, the company’s statistics also show that the number of outright malicious...

A combination of clicks and key presses can lead to cross site scripting or code execution – Opera Security Advisories

When a user double clicks on a page, they may expect the two clicks to target the same object. If a page uses the first click to open a pop-up window in a predictable location, the second click may focus parts of the new window, such as its address field. If the page can then convince the user to...

Pages can prevent navigation to a target page, spoofing the address field – Opera Security Advisories

When a user types a new URL for the browser to load, the currently active page may detect when the new page is about to load and prevent the navigation, while still leaving the new URL displayed in the address bar. This can then be used to spoof the URL of the target page. The malicious page woul...

A combination of clicks and key presses can lead to cross site scripting or code execution

When a user double clicks on a page, they may expect the two clicks to target the same object. If a page uses the first click to open a pop-up window in a predictable location, the second click may focus parts of the new window, such as its address field. If the page can then convince the user to...