CVE-2012-2128

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in doku.php in DokuWiki 2012-01-25 Angua allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that add arbitrary users. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by the vendor, who states that it is resultant from CVE-2012-2129...

Black Hole Exploit Kit Targeting Java CVE-2012-1723 Flaw

A new fork of the Black Hole exploit kit is making quick work of a recently patched Java vulnerability and security researchers say that the attackers are registering new sites quickly to exploit users with vulnerable browsers. The CVE-2012-1723 Java vulnerability that the Black Hole exploit kit ...

Instagram Patches "Friendship Vulnerability" Privacy Hole

Instagram has patched a flaw in its photo sharing application that could have allowed anyone to add themselves as friends to accounts and view information and photos that were set to private. The vulnerability, discovered by Spanish security researcher Sebastián Guerrero, could have allowed an...

MSXML Exploit Surfaces in Black Hole Kit

Attackers really like exploit kits because they offer users the ease of point-and-click exploitation, lots of potential targets and don’t require a huge amount of technical knowledge to use. Attackers also enjoy Microsoft vulnerabilities, especially unpatched ones, because of the massive installe...

Assange's Asylum In The Balance, Researcher Warns Ecuador's Deliberations Are Vulnerable To Online Snooping

With Wikileaks founder Julian Assange anxiously awaiting word from the government of Ecuador on his request for political asylum, a security researcher warns that the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is handling the Assange asylum request, is using a video conferencing system that is...

Researcher Warns Of Security Hole In KeePass Password Manager

Users of the free, open source KeePass password manager got unwelcome news on Tuesday, after a private security researcher claimed to have discovered a remotely exploitable security hole that could give an attacker access to unencrypted user passwords. However, KeePass’s creator calls the hole...

Fedora 17 : python-virtualenvwrapper-3.4-1.fc17 (2012-8434)

Upstream fix of a security hole patched in 3.2. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues...

Fake Automated Craigslist Email Notifications Link to Blackhole Exploit Kit

UPDATE: A big wave of emails purporting to be Craigslist notifications but containing links to websites hosting the Black Hole exploit kit hit the Internet yesterday, a day that already was filled with drama surrounding the LinkedIn password dump. The malicious emails, 150,000 of which were caugh...

Top Web Browsers Vulnerable To Rogue Download Vulnerability

Security researcher and Google employee Michal Zalewski is warning of a potentially serious security hole that affects the three major Web browsers, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google’s Chrome browser and that could make it easy for attackers to push malicious downloads from domains other than...

Backdoor In Equipment Used For Traffic Control, Railways Called "Huge Risk"

UPDATE: Security researchers are warning about the risk posed by an embarrassing security hole in industrial control software by the firm RuggedCom. A hidden administrative account could give remote attackers easy access to critical equipment that is used to manage a wide range of critical...

Omiworld CMS - SQL Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications ====================== Vulnerability info ==================== + Exploit Title : Omiworld CMS - SQL Injection Vulnerability + Date : 09-04-2012 + Author : The UnKnØwN + Software Link : http://www.mediafire.com/?ixfs79gw2clicrx + Version : 3 +...

Jhwebstudio Cross Site Scripting

Exploit Title : jhwebstudio Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities Author : Zarbat & IrIsT Security Team Discovered By : Am!r Home : Zarbat.Org & IrIsT.Ir Software Link : http://www.jhwebstudio.com/ Security Risk : High Version : All Version Tested on : GNU/Linux Ubuntu - Windows Server - win7 Dork...

Default Password (nasadmin) for 'nasadmin' Account

The account 'nasadmin' on the remote host has the password 'nasadmin'. An attacker may leverage this to gain total control of the affected system. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. account = "nasadmin"; password = "nasadmin"; include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc...

Attackers Using Fake Google Analytics Code to Redirect Users to Black Hole Exploit Kit

Injecting malicious code into the HTML used on legitimate Web sites is a key part of the infection lifecycle for many attack crews, and they often disguise and obfuscate their code to make it more difficult to analyze or so it appears to be legitimate code. The latest instance of this technique h...

Ladder logic

The devices tested by the Basecamp Project included the D20 PLC by GE, The Modicon Quantum by Schneider Electric, Rockwell and Koyo Electronics. Each device was tested using a number of additional attack vectors. Researchers attempted to upload custom firmware or so-called “ladder logic” for the...

MySQL < 5.0.83 Denial of Service

The version of MySQL installed on the remote host is earlier than 5.0.83 and thus reportedly allows a remote user to crash the server and possibly have other impacts. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid17804; scriptversion"1.6"; scriptcvsdate"Date:...

OpenSSL < 0.9.2b Session Reuse

According to its banner, the remote server is running a version of OpenSSL that is earlier than 0.9.2b. A remote attacker could reuse an SSL session under a different context and bypass access control mechanisms based on client certificates. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; i...

Exploit Kits Now Updated With New Wares Before Patches Are Ready

The creators and maintainers of exploit kits often rely on public reports of new exploits and proof-of-concept exploit code in order to be able to add new exploits to their software. And in many cases, the exploits included in kits such as Black Hole and Eleonore and others will be for...

DNS Hijacks Now Being Used to Serve Black Hole Exploit Kit

Attackers have been going after various pieces of the DNS infrastructure for a long time now, and it’s not unusual for there to be somewhat organized campaigns that target certain vertical industries or geographic regions. But researchers lately have been seeing an interesting pattern of...

Charlie Miller now working with DoD for Cyber Security

Charlie Miller is a former hacker who has become an information security consultant now working with Department of Defense DoD for helping out with cyber security. He was invited to the conference on cyber conflict held by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence in Tallinn, where ...