Botnet Crackdowns Staunch Spam…For a Month

The crackdowns on massive, spam-spewing botnets disrupted the global flow of spam e-mail…for about a month. That, according to a new report out from Kaspersky Lab. “Spam in the Third Quarter of 2010” is the latest, quarterly report from Kaspersky’s anti virus research labs. It finds that several...

Tracker: SpyEye Not Yet Zeus-Like In Stature

The SpyEye Tracker, a new site that hopes to trace the activity of the budding SpyEye Trojan, went live this week and shows the emerging SpyEye botnet to be global in reach, but still much smaller than the Zeus botnet with which it has merged. SpyEye Tracker has already identified 68 malicious...

Overlooked Old Vulnerabilities Lead to Major Data Breaches, Says TrustWave

A recent report suggests that focusing too much on new security threats might make companies overlook older, more commonly exploited vulnerabilities. The report by TrustWave is based on data from over 1,900 penetration tests and more than 200 data breach investigations for clients like American...

openSUSE Security Update : postgresql (openSUSE-SU-2010:0903-1)

PostgreSQL functions implemented in Perl or TCL shared a global state even across different user user ids. A user could therefore influence functions of other users in an unexpected or even malicious way CVE-2010-3433. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and...

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...

Report: Phishing Activity is Down (And That's A Bad Thing)

The number of phishing attacks declined in the first half of 2010, but a report from the Anti Phishing Working Group warns that might not be such a good thing. The group released its Global Phishing Survey on Monday covering the first six months of 2010. Overall, the survey reported a steep decli...

SuSE 10 Security Update : PostgreSQL (ZYPP Patch Number 7186)

PostgreSQL functions implemented in Perl or TCL shared a global state even across different user user ids. A user could therefore influence functions of other users in an unexpected or even malicious way. CVE-2010-3433 PostgreSQL was updated to version 8.1.22 which fixes the security issue...

Survey: Information Theft A Bigger Problem than Physical Theft

Anyone who has received “notification” of funky activity on their credit card, or an urgent e-mail plea from the widow of Mobutu Sese Seko won’t be surprised to learn that information theft is a big problem. But a new survey out from Kroll Consulting finds that its also the biggest problem facing...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2120-1] New postgresql-8.3 packages fix privilege escalation

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-2120-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer October 12, 2010 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Report: FCC May Push ISPs To Crack Down on Botnets

We’ve known for a long time that botnets are the Madwoman in the Attic at most major Internet service providers ISPs- an unseemly and occasionally embarrassing presence that is occasionally dealt with, but usually silently tolerated. But now, it seems, there’s pressure mounting on ISPs to do...

Global Travel SQL Injection

======================================================= Global Travel Promodetail.asp SQL Injection Vulnerability ======================================================= + Author : josalijoe + Homepage : http://josalijoe.org/ & http://indonesiancoder.com/ + Mail : josalijoeatyahoodotcom + Date :...

Linux Kernel < 2.6.36-rc6 pktcdvd Kernel Memory Disclosure

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits ========================================================== Linux Kernel http://jon.oberheide.org Information: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showbug.cgi?id=638085 The PKTCTRLCMDSTATUS device ioctl retrieves a pointer to a pktcdvddevice from the...

RarCrack 0.2 - 'Filename init() .bss' (PoC)

The software can be downloaded here: http://rarcrack.sourceforge.net/ Author: stoke Date: 2010-09-20 Download: http://rarcrack.sourceforge.net/ Tested on: Backtrack 4 Site: http://devilcode.it | http://hack2web.altervista.org Special greetz to: nex, for reassure me when i sayed "WHY EIP IT'S NOT...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : lvm2 (MDVSA-2010:171)

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in lvm2 : The cluster logical volume manager daemon clvmd in lvm2-cluster in LVM2 before 2.02.72, as used in Red Hat Global File System GFS and other products, does not verify client credentials upon a socket connection, which allows local users to cau...

Global Event Source (index.php) Blind Sql Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications ================================================================= Global Event Source index.php Blind Sql Injection Vulnerability ================================================================= .:. Author : AtT4CKxT3rR0r1ST email protected ....

kernel: gfs2: rename causes kernel panic

The gfs2direntfindspace function in fs/gfs2/dir.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35 uses an incorrect size value in calculations associated with sentinel directory entries, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and panic and possibly have unspecified other...

PT-2010-1036 · Opensuse +2 · Drbd-Kmp-Default +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.35 drbd-kmp-default affected versions not specified Description: The issue affects the Linux kernel and the drbd-kmp-default package in openSUSE. In the Linux kernel, the gfs2 dirent find space function in...

CVE-2010-2526

CVE-2010-2526 affects the cluster logical volume manager daemon (clvmd) in LVM2-cluster (LVM2) before 2.02.72 . The issue arises because clvmd does not verify credentials of clients over its control socket, enabling local users to issue crafted commands that can cause the daemon to exit, or to ac...

CVE-2010-2526

The cluster logical volume manager daemon clvmd in lvm2-cluster in LVM2 before 2.02.72, as used in Red Hat Global File System GFS and other products, does not verify client credentials upon a socket connection, which allows local users to cause a denial of service daemon exit or logical-volume...

CVE-2010-2526

The cluster logical volume manager daemon clvmd in lvm2-cluster in LVM2 before 2.02.72, as used in Red Hat Global File System GFS and other products, does not verify client credentials upon a socket connection, which allows local users to cause a denial of service daemon exit or logical-volume...