PHP Secure Configuration Checker - Check current PHP configuration for potential security flaws

Among the most tedious tasks of PHP security testing is the check for insecure PHP configuration. As a successor of our PHP Security Poster, we have created a script to help system administrators as well as security professionals to assess the state of php.ini and related topics as quickly and as...

Apple Patches 'Find My iPhone' Vulnerability Which May Caused Celebrities Photo Leak

Apple has patched the security flaw in its Find My iPhone online service that may have allowed hackers to get access to a number of celebrities' private pictures leaked online. OVER 100 CELEBRITIES AFFECTED So far, I hope everybody have heard about probably the biggest digital exposure of persona...

Namecheap Accounts Compromised in Data Breach

LA-based domain name registrar and hosting company Namecheap warned its customers on Monday that cybercriminals have begun accessing their accounts by using the list of credentials gathered from third-party websites. The Hosting company confirmed the security breach and informed that the hackers...

Microsoft Windows SMB Registry : McAfee EPO GUID

By reading the registry key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Network Associates\ePolicy Orchestrator\Agent, it was possible to determine that the remote Windows system is managed by McAfee EPO. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid77477; scriptversion"1.7";...

Verizon to Bolster Authentication with QR Codes

If you want to know what the future holds for authentication on the web, it all depends whom you ask. Some say it’ll come in the form of biometrics – iris and fingerprint scans, etc. Others say the answer lies in a tangle of constantly changing two-factor verification codes users need to punch in...

Heartbleed Exploit Linked to Community Health Data Breach

Update: The Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability is now the centerpiece of the Community Health Systems data breach. Dave Kennedy, CEO of security consultancy TrustedSec, said yesterday that three sources close to the CHS investigation told him that a Heartbleed exploit was the hackers’ initial way i...

Paypal Two-Factor Authentication Bypass

Today, the 5th of August, I release my Paypal 2FA bypass exploit. It's been exactly 2 months since I've reported this bug, and due to the simplicity of it, I believe I've given Paypal long enough to fix it. It's still not fixed. Full blog can be found here: http://blog.internot.info/ My website:...

Twitter Gains Team From Mitro Password Management Company

Twitter has announced that a cloud-based password management company called Mitro has joined the Twitter team, and all of Mitro’s code is now free and open source. Mitro’s offering a secure password manager that’s meant to help distributed teams share passwords for accounts and services. The...

NOAA, Satellite Data, Riddled with Vulnerabilities

The informational systems that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA run are fraught with vulnerabilities and what the U.S. Department of Commerce deems “significant security deficiencies” that could leave it vulnerable to cyber attacks. That’s according to the findings of an...

Phishers Use Luis Suarez Bite as Bait

The World Cup is the most popular sporting event on the planet, and not just among sports fans; attackers and scammers of all stripes love it as well, as it presents a unique opportunity to separate victims from their money. Phishing and malware scams tied to the World Cup in Brazil have been...

Hillstone Software HS TFTP Server 1.3.2 - Denial of Service Vulnerability

No description provided by source. Title : Hillstone Software HS TFTP Server Denial Of Service Vulnerability Author : Prabhu S Angadi from SecPod Technologies www.secpod.com Vendor : http://www.hillstone-software.com/hstftpdetails.htm Advisory : http://secpod.org/blog/?p=419...

Micro CMS 1.0 b1 - Persistent XSS Vulnerability

No description provided by source. Title : Micro CMS Persistent Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability. Author : Veerendra G.G from SecPod Technologies www.secpod.com Vendor : http://www.micro-cms.com/ Advisory : http://secpod.org/blog/?p=135 http://secpod.org/advisories/SECPODMicroCMS.txt Version :...

Flaw Lets Attackers Bypass PayPal Two-Factor Authentication

There’s a vulnerability in the way that PayPal handles certain requests from mobile clients that can allow an attacker to bypass the two-factor authentication mechanism for the service and transfer money from a victim’s account to any recipient he chooses. The flaw lies in the way that the PayPal...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (MozillaFirefox-4201)

MozillaFirefox was updated to version 3.6.16 to fix the following security issue : MFSA 2011-11 Several invalid HTTPS certificates were placed on the certificate blacklist to prevent their misuse. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this...

Authentication flaw

The Google Authenticator login module 6.x-1.x before 6.x-1.2 and 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.4 for Drupal does not properly identify user account names, which might allow remote attackers to bypass the two-factor authentication requirement via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2013-4177

The CVE-2013-4177 entry refers to the Drupal Google Authenticator login module (versions 6.x-1.x before 6.x-1.2 and 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.4). The underlying issue is that the module does not properly identify user account names, which could allow remote attackers to bypass the two‑factor authentic...

CVE-2013-4177

The Google Authenticator login module 6.x-1.x before 6.x-1.2 and 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.4 for Drupal does not properly identify user account names, which might allow remote attackers to bypass the two-factor authentication requirement via unspecified vectors...

Apple Ransomware Targeting iCloud Users Hits Australia

A handful of iPhone, iPad and Mac users, largely confined to Australia, awoke Tuesday to discover their devices had been taken hostage by ransomware. Instead of their normal home screens, users were greeted with a message promising that their devices would be unlocked if a ransom, somewhere betwe...

Bitly Developing Two Factor Authentication Following Compromise

The link-shortening service Bitly announced late last week that it’s ramping up its development of two-factor authentication following a compromise that leaked user information on Thursday. The breach, first discovered Thursday morning, spilled users’ email addresses, encrypted salted and hashed...

DUO-PSA-2014-005: Duo Product Security Advisory

Duo Product Security Advisory Advisory ID: DUO-PSA-2014-005 Publication Date: 2014-05-12 Revision Date: 2014-05-27 Status: Confirmed, Fixed Document Revision: 3 Overview Duo Security has identified an issue in its Credential-Provider based Remote Desktop Protocol RDP integrations e.g. those...