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...

PT-2012-4159

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Yahoo! Toolbar versions 1.0.0.5 and earlier for Chrome and Safari Description The issue allows remote attackers to modify the configured search URL and intercept search terms via a crafted web page. Recommendations For Yahoo! Toolbar versions...

CVE-2012-2647: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Yahoo! Toolbar 1.0.0.5 and earlier for Chrome and Safari allows remote attackers to modify the configured search URL, and intercept search terms, via a crafted web page...

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...

PT-2011-2805

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Telepathy Gabble versions 0.8 through 0.8.14 Telepathy Gabble versions 0.10 through 0.10.4 Telepathy Gabble versions 0.11 through 0.11.6 Description The issue allows remote attackers to intercept audio and video calls by using a crafted...

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 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:...

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...