DDoS Attacks originated from thousands of .EDU and .GOV WordPress Blogs

In a recent cyber attack on a Forum site, thousands of outdated legitimate WordPress blogs were abused to perform DDOS attacks using previously known vulnerabilities. After analyzing the Log file from the victim's server, we have noticed many Wordpress CMS based educational .EDU and Government .G...

Acoustical Mesh Network Used to Infect Air-Gapped Computers

The soundest security advice managers of critical computing systems have been given is to air gap those machines. Don’t network them and don’t expose them to the Internet, and there’s no way hackers reach them from the Web and no way a direct infection replicates. Recently, there’s been reason fo...

Github accounts compromised in massive Brute-Force attack using 40,000 IP addresses

Popular source code repository service GitHub has recently been hit by a massive Password Brute-Force attack that successfully compromised some accounts, GitHub has urged users to set up two-factor authentication for their accounts and has already reset passwords for compromised accounts. "We sen...

Github accounts compromised in massive Brute-Force attack using 40,000 IP addresses

Popular source code repository service GitHub has recently been hit by a massive Password Brute-Force attack that successfully compromised some accounts, GitHub has urged users to set up two-factor authentication for their accounts and has already reset passwords for compromised accounts. “We sen...

Ukrainian Banking App Vulnerable to Attack

Privat24, the mobile banking application for Ukraine’s largest commercial bank, contains an insufficient validation vulnerability in its iOS, Android, and Windows phone apps that could give an attacker the ability to steal money from user accounts after bypassing its two-factor authentication...

Juniper NetScreen VPN Client Detection

The remote host has the Juniper NetScreen VPN Client installed. C Tenable Network Security. Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid70120; scriptversion"1.10"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate", value:"2023/02/06"; scriptxrefname:"IAVT", value:"0001-T-0914";...

Hesperbot - A New Banking Trojan that can create hidden VNC server on infected systems

Security firm ESET has discovered a new and effective banking trojan, targeting online banking users and designed to beat the mobile multi-factor authentication systems. Hesperbot detected as Win32/Spy.Hesperbot is very identical to the infamous Zeus and SpyEye Banking Malwares and infects users ...

Code Repository 'Github' offers Two-Factor Authentication to 3.5 million users

Code repository GitHub offers two-factor authentication to beef up security around its users' accounts. Github is a coding repository where developers used to build their projects projects that may turn out to be valued knowledgeable assets. Two-Factor Authentication adds another layer of...

Hesperbot - A New Banking Trojan that can create hidden VNC server on infected systems

Security firm ESET has discovered a new and effective banking trojan, targeting online banking users and designed to beat the mobile multi-factor authentication systems. Hesperbot detected as Win32/Spy.Hesperbot is very identical to the infamous Zeus and SpyEye Banking Malwares and infects users ...

Code Repository 'Github' offers Two-Factor Authentication to 3.5 million users

Code repository GitHub offers two-factor authentication to beef up security around its users’ accounts. Github is a coding repository where developers used to build their projects projects that may turn out to be valued knowledgeable assets. Two-Factor Authentication adds another layer of...

Researchers Reverse Engineer Dropbox

Researchers have cracked open cloud storage service Dropbox, reverse engineering the encryption protecting the client in order to open it up to further security analysis. The engineers, Dhiru Kholia of Openwall and Przemyslaw Wegrzyn of CodePainters, also managed to demonstrate how to use...

Google WebLogin Tokens Expose Google Apps, User Data

An exposure in the way Google handles authentication is an illustration of the unintended consequences of trading security for a little bit of convenience. Craig Young, a researcher from security company Tripwire, demonstrated at Def Con over the weekend how an Android single sign-on token known ...

New Twitter Login Verification System Avoids SMS Codes

Twitter is rolling out an updated login verification system for iPhone and Android that uses a novel cryptographic scheme that is designed to be resilient against attack and ensures that the private key never leaves the user’s device. The system doesn’t rely on SMS to send codes to users for logi...

If a crafted version.json would be presented, an XSS could be introduced.

PMASA-2013-11 Announcement-ID: PMASA-2013-11 Date: 2013-07-28 Updated: 2013-07-30 Summary If a crafted version.json would be presented, an XSS could be introduced. Description Due to not properly validating the version.json file, which is fetched from the phpMyAdmin.net website, could lead to an...

SQL injection vulnerabilities, producing a privilege escalation (control user).

PMASA-2013-15 Announcement-ID: PMASA-2013-15 Date: 2013-07-28 Updated: 2013-08-06 Summary SQL injection vulnerabilities, producing a privilege escalation control user. Description Due to a missing validation of parameters passed to schemaexport.php and pmdpdf.php, it was possible to inject SQL...

Hacking DropBox account, Vulnerability allows hacker to bypass Two-Factor Authentication

Q-CERT team found a critical vulnerability that allows the attacker to bypass the two-factor authentication in the most popular file sharing service 'DropBox'. Two Factor Authentication is an extra layer of security that is known as "multi factor authentication" that requires not only a password...

Hacking DropBox account, Vulnerability allows hacker to bypass Two-Factor Authentication

Q-CERT team found a critical vulnerability that allows the attacker to bypass the two-factor authentication in the most popular file sharing service 'DropBox'. Two Factor Authentication is an extra layer of security that is known as “multi factor authentication” that requires not only a password...

ModSecurity Version

Based on HTTP headers, the remote host appears to be running ModSecurity, an open source web application firewall WAF. It was possible to read the version number from the banner. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid67123; scriptversion"1.6";...

LinkedIn with Two-factor authentication and Cross Site Scripting Flaw

Two Factor Authentication is becoming a standard in the enterprise security space in an attempt to dually secure end users against malicious attacks. Following Dropbox, Google and virtually everyone else, LinkedIn added two-factor authentication to its login process today. LinkedIn will provide...

LinkedIn with Two-factor authentication and Cross Site Scripting Flaw

Two Factor Authentication is becoming a standard in the enterprise security space in an attempt to dually secure end users against malicious attacks. Following Dropbox, Google and virtually everyone else, LinkedIn added two-factor authentication to its login process today. LinkedIn will provide...