JBoss AS Attacks Up Since Exploit Code Disclosed

Attackers are exploiting a two-year-old vulnerability in JBoss Application Servers that enables a hacker to remotely get a shell on a vulnerable webserver. The number of infections has surged since exploit code called pwn.jsp was publicly disclosed Oct. 4. Researchers at Imperva said that a numbe...

EMLOG offline writing high-risk security vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

You emlog user, EMLOG Development Group today confirmed EMLOG 5.1 series of versions exist offline writing interface permission validation is not strict, high-risk vulnerabilities. The vulnerability can lead an attacker can bypass the system user authentication mechanism through the offline writi...

Security audits

A presentation on Project Basecamp was a highlight of the conference. The talk presented the findings of a volunteer-led security audit of leading programmable logic controllers PLCs. The audit found that decrepit hardware, buggy software and pitiful or nonexistent security features make thousand...

Kazakhstan calls for global cyber security treaty to deter hackers at United Nations

Kazakhstan calls for global cyber security treaty to deter hackers atUnited Nations Today's security professionals - whether they are black hats, white hats or something in between - all have one thing in common: The knowledge of their craft probably did not come from a book or a classroom. Today...

LulzSec Member Topiary arrested in the Shetland Islands

LulzSec Member Topiary arrested in the Shetland Islands Police arrest 18-year-old man in Shetland Islands who is alleged to be involved in hacker attacks on law enforcement agencies.Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Police Central e-Crime Unit PCeU arrested the man as part of an...

LulzSec Member Topiary arrested in the Shetland Islands

LulzSec Member Topiary arrested in the Shetland Islands Police arrest 18-year-old man in Shetland Islands who is alleged to be involved in hacker attacks on law enforcement agencies.Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Police Central e-Crime Unit PCeU arrested the man as part of an...

35,000 Chinese websites hacked in 2010 !

A total of 35,000 websites on the Chinese mainland were attacked by hackers in 2010, including 4,635 government websites, according to the Internet security report released by the National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team/Coordination Center of China CNCERT/CC on March 9. The...

Research: Weird Works When It Comes to Passwords

Researchers at Microsoft and Harvard University warn that popular passwords pose a bigger risk to online security than weak ones and suggest that many tools to enforce strong passwords actually steer users to choices that are easy to guess. Forcing users to choose passwords that are rare and...

WebKit Security Flaws Haunt Apple iTunes

Apple has shipped a critical security patch for its iTunes media player to fix several gaping security holes that expose Windows users to hacker attacks. The vulnerabilities could be exploited to launch remote code execution attacks if a user simply opens an image file or surfs to a rigged Web...

Google Patches 'High Risk' Chrome Flaws

Google has pushed out another automatic Chrome browser update to fix multiple security issues that could expose users to hacker attacks. Google Chrome 5.0.375.55, available for Windows, Mac and Linux, addresses at least two “high risk” vulnerabilities and several security-related denial-of-servic...

Social Engineering Attacks Prove Failure of User Education

BOSTON — A prominent security consultant is urging a rethink of the way businesses handle user education and awareness, warning that the way attackers have latched on to social engineering techniques makes it difficult to cope with hacker attacks. During a presentation at the SOURCE conference...

Adobe Zaps Dangerous Flash Player Bugs

Adobe has shipped a critical Flash Player update to fix at least seven documented security vulnerabilities that expose nearly every computer user to dangerous hacker attacks. The Flash Player 10.0.42.34 update is available for all platforms Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Here are the raw details:...

Apple Patches Critical Safari Vulnerabilities

Apple today shipped Safari 4.0.4 to fix a total of seven security flaws that expose Windows and Mac users to a wide range of malicious hacker attacks. The high-priority update patches vulnerabilities that allow remote code execution drive-by downloads if a user simply surfs to a maliciously rigge...

Snow Leopard Ships With Vulnerable Flash Player

Apple’s new operating system comes with an outdated version of Flash Player that exposes Mac users to hacker attacks. The initial release of Mac OS X 1..6 Snow Leopard includes Flash Player 10.0.23.1, which is very much out of date. The fully patched version of Flash Player for Mac is version...

Apple plugs Safari code execution holes

Apple has released Safari 4.0.3 to fix at least six security vulnerabilities that put Mac and Windows users at risk of hacker attacks. The update is considered highly-critical and should be immediately applied on both Windows and Mac systems because of the risk of information disclosure, phishing...

Microsoft Plugs Critical Windows, IE Vulnerabilities

Microsoft today released six bulletins with fixes for at least nine documented security vulnerabilities in a range of products that put users at risk of malicious hacker attacks. At least two of the vulnerabilities are currently being attacked in the wild so it’s imperative that Windows users and...

Apple hires ex-OLPC security architect

Former director of security architecture at One Laptop per Child OLPC Ivan Krstic has joined Apple to help thwart hacker attacks against the Mac operating system. Krstic, a well-respected innovator who designed the Bitfrost security specification for the OLPC initiative, joined Cupertino this wee...

Scotty traceless analysis of the hackers to avoid detection of the means-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Hacker's clever is not just that they know how to invadeServer, but also that they know how to disguise their attacks. Malicious attackers will use a variety of escape means to allow yourself to not be detected, so as system administrator, should also be aware of these means to cope with the...

Will Microsoft ever fix 'token kidnapping' flaw?

Over at the Zero Day blog zdnet.com, I covered the saga of the one-year-old Windows token kidnapping vulnerability that remains unpatched and is now being exploited in malicious hacker attacks. This is one of those Microsoft-really-should-know-better moments, especially since they knew about the...

Interview:w00w00

w00w00 One of the first to respond to a request for an interview was w00w00 pronounced "woo-woo", their website . A group highly respected among those who are interested in security issues - they have discovered a lot of holes in security systems, many interesting tactics of hacker attacks. The...