PRISM like Surveillance system in France to intercept billions of communications

The US isn't the only western country with an Digital eye i.e PRISM like surveillance program, designed to monitor internet and phone communications. French is leading member at European Parliament and they voted to launch an in-depth inquiry against the US's based PRISM surveillance project. The...

Israel preparing Cyber Iron Dome Shield

Israel's Prime Minister officially opened a new national program to train teenagers in the art of cyberwarfare. The program named "Magshimim Le'umit", is to prepare them for their future role in the military and intelligence community. Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said the country's...

German Police eavesdropping Facebook, Gmail, Skype Conversations

An eavesdropping tool allegedly used by the German government to intercept Skype calls is full of security problems and may violate a ruling by the country's constitutional court, according to a European hacker club. The information was released as part of a move towards financial transparency. T...

Spoofing and script injection through location.hash — Mozilla

Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported an issue with spoofing of the location property. In this issue, writes to location.hash can be used in concert with scripted history navigation to cause a specific website to be loaded into the history object. The baseURI can then be changed to this...

Slackware: Security Advisory (SSA:2009-040-01)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Critical Bug Reported in Oracle Servers

There’s a critical remotely exploitable vulnerability in all of the current versions of the Oracle database server that can enable an attacker to intercept traffic and execute arbitrary commands on the server. The bug, which Oracle reported as fixed in the most recent Critical Patch Update, is on...

Browser Find toolbar phishing attack

Added: 02/25/2012 Background This tool serves a page claiming to be a list of stolen passwords. When a user sees this list, the most common response is to validate the claim by opening a Find box Ctrl-F and searching for his or her own password. The tool intercepts the Ctrl-F keypress and opens a...

Browser Find toolbar phishing attack

Added: 02/25/2012 Background This tool serves a page claiming to be a list of stolen passwords. When a user sees this list, the most common response is to validate the claim by opening a Find box Ctrl-F and searching for his or her own password. The tool intercepts the Ctrl-F keypress and opens a...

Researchers Crack Satellite Phone Ciphers

Researchers at a German university have broken the encryption of the two main standards used to protect calls from satellite phones, giving them the ability to intercept conversations that are meant to be private. The attacks on the GMR-1 and GMR-2 standards are thought to be the first such work...

Did Apple, RIM and Nokia Help The Indian Government Spy On The U.S.?

Documents purportedly lifted from Indian government servers contain explosive allegations: that leading Western firms including Apple Corp., Research in Motion and Nokia provided the government with secret access to mobile devices their mobile operating systems- access that the Indian government...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Server Administration Panel in Parallels Plesk Panel 10.2.0build1011110331.18 does not set the secure flag for a cookie in an https session, which makes it easier for remote attackers to capture this cookie by intercepting its transmission within an http session, as demonstrated by cookies us...

CVE-2011-4849

The Control Panel in Parallels Plesk Panel 10.4.4build20111103.18 does not set the secure flag for a cookie in an https session, which makes it easier for remote attackers to capture this cookie by intercepting its transmission within an http session, as demonstrated by cookies used by help.php a...

Did the German Government Break The Law With Its Lawful Intercept Trojan?

The German government acknowledged on Tuesday that a trojan horse program used to perform lawful intercept is capable of far more than it was said to be. The confirmation comes after an analysis by hacking group The Chaos Computer Club CCC which alleged that the program may be in breach of the la...

Celebrating 5th Birthday of Wikileaks (Born : 4th Oct 2006)

Celebrating 5th Birthday of Wikileaks Born : 4th Oct 2006 The wikileaks.org domain name was registered on 4 October 2006. The website was unveiled, and published its first document, in December 2006. The site claims to have been "founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and...

Debian DSA-2311-1 : openjdk-6 - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenJDK, an implementation of the Java SE platform. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2011-0862 Integer overflow errors in the JPEG and font parser allow untrusted code including applets to...

Apple Fixes SSL Man-in-the-Middle Bug in iOS 4.3.5

Apple has released another new version of its iOS operating system for iPhones and other devices that fixes a security vulnerability in the way that the software handled SSL certificates and validated their authenticity. An attacker exploiting the bug might be able to intercept SSL traffic, Apple...

Researcher to Show Off GSM Intercept Attack at Defcon

At the Defcon conference later this week, Chris Paget, a well-known security researcher who focuses on wireless and RFID issues, will give a demonstration of a technique that enables him to intercept calls made on GSM wireless handsets without any interaction with the user’s handset. The techniqu...

PHP File Sharing System 1.5.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

PHP File Sharing System 1.5.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities Title: PHP File Sharing System 1.5.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities Author: blake Tested on: Windows XP SP3 with xampplite 1 XSS http://192.168.1.149/fss/index.php?cam= 2 Directory transversal...

PHP File Sharing System v1.5.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Exploit for unknown platform in category web applications ======================================================= PHP File Sharing System v1.5.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities ======================================================= Title: PHP File Sharing System 1.5.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities Author:...

nginx Proxy DNS Cache Domain Spoofing Vulnerability

nginx is prone to a vulnerability that may allow attackers to spoof domains because the software fails to properly compare domains when referencing an internal DNS cache. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyrig...