Researchers Find Browser History-Sniffing Still Ongoing

The practice of history sniffing, which has been seen as out-of-bounds and a serious privacy violation for the better part of a decade now, is still ongoing by some ad networks, researchers have found. A study completed recently by researchers at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and...

Domains Using .Org to Have Tighter Security

The Public Interest Registry will add an extra layer of security known as DNS Security Extensions DNSSEC to the .org domain in June — a move that will protect millions of non-profit organizations and their donors from hacking attacks known as cache poisoning. Read the full article. Network World...

Inside the BBC's Chimera botnet

By Dancho Danchev, ZDNet Earlier this month, the controversial BBC purchase of a botnet and modifying the infected hosts in the name of “public interest” sparked a lot of debate on the pros and cons of their action. Condemned by certain security vendors, and naturally, at least from guerrilla PR...

BBC paid 'a few thousand dollars' for botnet

In a statement on Monday, the BBC said that its decision to purchase and use a botnet to espose the malware epidemic had been “in the public interest”. “It was not our intention to break the law,” the BBC told ZDNet UK on Monday. “There is a powerful public interest in demonstrating the ease with...

Debian DSA-1594-1 : imlib2 - buffer overflows

Stefan Cornelius discovered two buffer overflows in Imlib's - a powerful image loading and rendering library - image loaders for PNM and XPM images, which may result in the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...

Igloo 0.1.9 - 'Wiki.php' Remote File Inclusion

DEVIL TEAM THE BEST POLISH TEAM Igloo 0.1.9 and prior textwiki mod - Remote File Include Vulnerabilities Script site: http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/igloo/ dork: Igloo interest group glue Find by Kacper Rahim. Greetings; DragonHeart, Satan, Leito, Leon, Luzak, Adam, DeathSpeed,...