Notorious ‘Hijack Factory’ Shunned from Web

Score one for the good guys: Bitcanal, a Portuguese Web hosting firm long accused of helping spammers hijack large swaths of dormant Internet address space over the years, was summarily kicked off the Internet this week after a half-dozen of the company's bandwidth providers chose to sever ties...

[slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix bugs and security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-52.9.1-i586-1slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release contains security fixes and improvements...

GHSA-PR3H-JJHJ-573X Sprockets path traversal leads to information leak

Specially crafted requests can be used to access files that exist on the filesystem that is outside an application's root directory, when the Sprockets server is used in production. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the work arounds immediately. Workaround:...

Chevereto Free Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Chevereto Free is a set of image hosting scripts which are mainly used to create image hosting websites. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in versions prior to Chevereto Free 1.0.13. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to steal administrator cookies...

CVE-2018-11690

The Balbooa Gridbox extension version 2.4.0 and previous versions for Joomla! is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability via a crafted URL to execute script in a victim's Web browser within the...

public node module path traversal vulnerability

The public node module is a module that can run a static file hosting server using a public directory and port. A path traversal vulnerability exists in the public node module, which stems from the program's lack of detection of file paths. An attacker could use this vulnerability to read the...

Unrestricted file upload

Unrestricted file upload RCE in express-cart module before 1.1.7 allows a privileged user to gain access in the hosting machine...

CVE-2018-3758

Unrestricted file upload RCE in express-cart module before 1.1.7 allows a privileged user to gain access in the hosting machine...

CVE-2018-3758

Unrestricted file upload RCE in express-cart module before 1.1.7 allows a privileged user to gain access in the hosting machine...

Confirmed—Microsoft Buys GitHub For $7.5 Billion

Here's the biggest news of the week—Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion. For those unaware, GitHub is a popular code repository hosting service that allows developers to host their projects, documentation, and code in the cloud using the popular Git source management system,...

Tailoring YouTube for Your Requirements

Did you know around 300 hours of video content is uploaded to YouTube every minute of every day? That's a staggering amount of content. However, while a huge amount of that uploaded content is harmless and innocuous - think fluffy kittens - YouTube is also the destination of choice for a large...

Remote Authentication GeoFeasibility Tool - GeoLogonalyzer

Users have long needed to access important resources such as virtual private networks VPNs, web applications, and mail servers from anywhere in the world at any time. While the ability to access resources from anywhere is imperative for employees, threat actors often leverage stolen credentials t...

Malicious PHP Script Infects 2,400 Websites in the Past Week

A botnet dubbed Brain Food is giving webmasters indigestion with related attacks that push bogus diet pills and IQ-boosting pills via web pages hosted on legitimate sites. So far, spammers have been successful, thanks to an effective Hypertext Preprocessor PHP script also called Brain Food that h...

DNSBin - Tool To Test Data Exfiltration Through DNS (RCE and XXE)

DNSBin is a simple tool to test data exfiltration through DNS and help test vulnerability like RCE or XXE when the environment has significant constraint. The project is in two parts, the first one is the web server and it's component. It offers a basic web UI, for most cases you won't need more...

Easy Hosting Control Panel Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Easy Hosting Control Panel EHCP is an open source hosting control panel that is used to manage domains, emails, ftp users and more. A security vulnerability exists in EHCP version 0.37.12.b, which originates from the program storing passwords in plaintext form. An attacker could exploit this...

Easy Hosting Control Panel Database Password Cracking Vulnerability

Easy Hosting Control Panel EHCP is an open source hosting control panel that is used to manage domains, emails, ftp users and more. A security vulnerability exists in EHCP version 0.37.12.b. The vulnerability stems from the program's use of a weak hashing algorithm and the absence of salt, which...

Easy Hosting Control Panel Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-12711)

Easy Hosting Control Panel EHCP is an open source hosting control panel that is used to manage domains, emails, ftp users and more. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in EHCP version 0.37.12.b. The vulnerability stems from the program failing to properly validate user input. A remote...

Easy Hosting Control Panel Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

Easy Hosting Control Panel EHCP is an open source hosting control panel that is used to manage domains, emails, ftp users and more. A cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists in EHCP version 0.37.12.b. The vulnerability stems from the program failing to properly filter user-submitted data....

Easy Hosting Control Panel Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Easy Hosting Control Panel EHCP is an open source hosting control panel that is used to manage domains, emails, ftp users and more. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in EHCP version 0.37.12.b. The vulnerability stems from the program failing to properly validate user input. A remote...

Easy Hosting Control Panel Password Change Vulnerability

Easy Hosting Control Panel EHCP is an open source hosting control panel that is used to manage domains, emails, ftp users and more. A security vulnerability exists in EHCP version 0.37.12.b. The vulnerability stems from the program failing to request the current password when a new password is se...