Man Arrested for Hacking Girl's Social Media and Posting Lewd Messages

A 29-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday for hacking into a girl's social networking profile, altering her photos, and posting inappropriate messages. The police apprehended Pramod Nana Bavdekar from his home in Andheri, seizing his computer and hard disk as evidence. The incident began on...

Radius Manager 3.8.0 - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Radius Manager 3.8.0 - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities Check Point Software Technologies - Vulnerability Discovery Team VDT http://www.checkpoint.com/defense/ Radius Manager Multiple Cross Site Scripting Issues CVE-2010-4275 INTRODUCTION Radius Manager is a centralized way for...

India Orders Security Certification for Government Websites After CBI Hack

India has mandated that all government ministries and departments secure their websites with proper certification. This directive follows the hacking of the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI website by a group calling themselves the "Pakistani Cyber Army." The National Informatics Centre has be...

VUPEN Security Research - RealPlayer RA5 Data Handling Heap Overflow Vulnerability (VUPEN-SR-2010-31)

VUPEN Security Research - RealPlayer RA5 Data Handling Heap Overflow Vulnerability VUPEN-SR-2010-31 http://www.vupen.com/english/research.php I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "RealPlayer is a media player available to play, manage and download all your mp3, flash and video files" from real.com...

The Case for Enterprise Cyber Ranges

The illustrious op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal featured talk of cyberwar again this week with “How to Fight and Win the Cyberwar.” The piece, written by Mortimer Zuckerman, rehashes some important facts: U.S. critical infrastructure, including the parts of it owned by major enterprises, is...

Audit: NASA Fails To Properly Wipe Data From Discarded Drives

A recent internal audit at NASA, the U.S. space agency, found significant weakness in the way the agency disposes of IT equipment, including evidence that used hard drives containing sensitive NASA data may have been sold to the public on the secondhand market. The audit focused on the Johnson an...

Stuxnet Code Now Available to Hackers, Posing Major Threat to Infrastructure

According to a report from Sky News, the Stuxnet worm has already been traded on the black market. The report does not specify whether this refers to the source code or binary samples. British security specialists now fear that terrorists could use the worm to attack critical infrastructure. The...

Hacker Poses as Graduate, Hacks Student Emails, Faces Legal Consequences

A hacker who posed as a university graduate to access the emails of hundreds of students has been given a suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay more than £20,000 in costs and compensation. Daniel Woo, a 23-year-old Bulgarian national, was sentenced for offenses under the Misuse of Computer...

Last Username - Windows

The script detects if Last Login Username an Loginwarning is displayed. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 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...

SLAD snort

This script connects to SLAD on a remote host to fetch the SNORT results. To work properly, this script requires to be provided with a valid SSH login by means of an SSH key with pass- phrase if the SSH public key is passphrase-protected, or a password to log in. Copyright C 2010 Greenbone Networ...

Cloud Security Alliance Releases New Toolkit

In an effort to better weigh the security of cloud-based infrastructures, the Cloud Security Alliance has released a new toolkit, the Governance, Risk Management and Compliance GRC Stack. Available as a free download on the organization’s website, the collection consists of three tools: CloudAudi...

Scammers Impersonate IT Helpdesk to Spread Rogue Antivirus

Criminals are posing as IT support staff, calling unsuspecting U.K. internet users to push rogue antivirus software. GetSafeOnline.org reports this as part of their Internet safety week campaign. These scam operations often involve up to 400 people using sales techniques and social engineering to...

97% of Cyber Crimes in Gurgaon Go Unreported, Say Police

Police in India report that 97 percent of cyber crimes remain unreported in Gurgaon, a city less than 20 miles from New Delhi. Industry representatives are now collaborating with law enforcement to tackle this issue, according to Times of India. Last week, the IT and business process outsourcing...

Zabbix < 1.8.18 / 2.0.9 Multiple SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

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HP Systems Insight Control Detection

HP Systems Insight Control implements infrastructure management and has the ability to deploy, migrate, monitor, control, and optimize IT infrastructure through a management console. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid50539; scriptversion"1.7";...

Insecure Loading of Dynamic Link Libraries in Windows Applications

US-CERT is aware of a class of vulnerabilities related to how some Windows applications may load external dynamic link libraries DLLs. When an application loads a DLL without specifying a fully qualified path name, Windows will attempt to locate the DLL by searching a defined set of directories. ...

Spree e-commerce JSON Hijacking Vulnerabilities - CVE-2010-3978

Dear List, I'm writing on behalf of the Check Point Vulnerability Discovery Team to publish the following vulnerability. Check Point Software Technologies - Vulnerability Discovery Team VDT http://www.checkpoint.com/defense/ Spree e-commerce JSON Hijacking Vulnerabilities CVE-2010-3978 INTRODUCTI...

Cyber Stalking and Defamation Criminalized in IT Act Amendments

With mobile phones now essentially serving as personal computers, proposed amendments to the Information Technology Act, 2006, specify that transmitting offensive or menacing text, audio, or video can result in two years of imprisonment. This punishment also applies if the content is false and...

Microsoft Releases Security Advisory for Internet Explorer

Microsoft has released Microsoft security advisory 2458511 to alert users of a vulnerability affecting all supported versions of Internet Explorer. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Update: Microsoft has released two Fix it tools in Microsoft Support article...

cforms WordPress Plugin Cross Site Scripting

Check Point Software Technologies - Vulnerability Discovery Team VDT http://www.checkpoint.com/defense/ cforms WordPress Plugin Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability CVE-2010-3977 INTRODUCTION According to Delicious Days, "cforms is a powerful and feature rich form plugin for WordPress, offering...