New Windows netbooks may harbor malware

From Computerworld Gregg Keizer After discovering attack code on a brand new Windows XP netbook, anti-virus vendor Kaspersky Labs warned users yesterday that they should scan virgin systems for malware before connecting them to the Internet. When Kaspersky developers installed their...

How to defend against botnet attacks

Botnets have become one of the more insidious threats on the Internet in the last few years. Large-scale botnets such as the Storm, Asprox and Nugache networks have caused tremendous problems by serving as platforms for spamming operations, DDoS attacks and other mischief. In this podcast from...

iDefense Security Advisory 05.12.09: Microsoft PowerPoint Notes Container Heap Corruption Vulnerability

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 iDefense Security Advisory 05.12.09 http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/ May 12, 2009 I. BACKGROUND Microsoft PowerPoint is an application used for constructing presentations, and comes with the Microsoft Office suite. For more...

iDefense Security Advisory 05.12.09: Microsoft PowerPoint Build List Memory Corruption Vulnerability

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 iDefense Security Advisory 05.12.09 http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/ May 12, 2009 I. BACKGROUND Microsoft PowerPoint is an application used for constructing presentations, and comes with the Microsoft Office suite. For more...

Solaris 10 OpenSolaris - fasttrap Local Kernel Denial of Service (PoC)

Solaris 10 OpenSolaris - fasttrap Local Kernel Denial of Service PoC / solaris-fasttrap-dos.c Copyright c 2008 by Solaris = 10/Opensolaris local kernel DoS POC by mu-b - Wed 19 Nov 2008 - Tested on: Sun Solaris 10 SPARC Sun OpenSolaris include include include include include include define...

Solaris 10 OpenSolaris - dtrace Local Kernel Denial of Service (PoC)

Solaris 10 OpenSolaris - dtrace Local Kernel Denial of Service PoC / solaris-dtrace-dos.c Copyright c 2008 by Solaris = 10/Opensolaris local kernel DoS POC by mu-b - Mon 17 Nov 2008 - Tested on: Sun Solaris 10 SPARC Sun OpenSolaris include include include include include include include include...

Solaris 10 / OpenSolaris - 'fasttrap' Local Kernel Denial of Service (PoC)

/ solaris-fasttrap-dos.c Copyright c 2008 by Solaris = 10/Opensolaris local kernel DoS POC by mu-b - Wed 19 Nov 2008 - Tested on: Sun Solaris 10 SPARC Sun OpenSolaris include include include include include include define DTRACEFASTTRAP "/devices/pseudo/fasttrap@0:fasttrap" void hammer void addr...

Solaris 10 / OpenSolaris - 'dtrace' Local Kernel Denial of Service (PoC)

/ solaris-dtrace-dos.c Copyright c 2008 by Solaris = 10/Opensolaris local kernel DoS POC by mu-b - Mon 17 Nov 2008 - Tested on: Sun Solaris 10 SPARC Sun OpenSolaris include include include include include include include include include define DTRACEHELPER "/dev/dtrace/helper" static unsigned int...

Internet Download Manager language file parsing stack overflow vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Affects versions: Tonec Inc Internet Download Manager 5.15 Build 3 Test method: PoC Internet Download Manager v. 5. 1 5 Build 3 4 In December Works on Vista HellCode Labs || TCC Group || http://tcc.hellcode.net The Bug was found by "musashi" aka karak0rsan [email protected] thanx to murderkey...

Microsoft Media Player (quartz.dll .mid) Denial of Service Exploit

No description provided by source. ! /usr/bin/perl CALquartzmidpoc.pl MircoSoftMediaplayerquartz.dllmidremoteDos POC by Code Audit Labs public 2009-04-17 http://www.vulnhunt.com/ Affected ======== test on full updated winxp sp3 windows media Player 10.00.00.3998 quartz.dll 6.5.3790.4283 Windows...

Microsoft GDI Plugin .png Infinite Loop Denial of Service PoC

No description provided by source. ! /usr/bin/perl CALgdiplugpoc.pl MircosoftgdiplugpnginfinityloopD.o.S POC by Code Audit Labs public 2009-04-17 http://www.vulnhunt.com/ Affected ======== test on full updated winxp sp3 other version should be affected CVE: please assign to a CVE number DESCRIPTI...

Microsoft Media Player (quartz.dll .mid) Denial of Service Exploit

Exploit for unknown platform in category dos / poc ================================================================== Microsoft Media Player quartz.dll .mid Denial of Service Exploit ================================================================== ! /usr/bin/perl CALquartzmidpoc.pl...

Microsoft GDI Plugin - .png Infinite Loop Denial of Service (PoC)

Microsoft GDI Plugin - .png Infinite Loop Denial of Service PoC ! /usr/bin/perl CALgdiplugpoc.pl MircosoftgdiplugpnginfinityloopD.o.S POC by Code Audit Labs public 2009-04-17 http://www.vulnhunt.com/ Affected ======== test on full updated winxp sp3 other version should be affected CVE: please...

Microsoft GDI Plugin .png Infinite Loop Denial of Service PoC

Exploit for unknown platform in category dos / poc ============================================================= Microsoft GDI Plugin .png Infinite Loop Denial of Service PoC ============================================================= ! /usr/bin/perl CALgdiplugpoc.pl...

Microsoft Media Player - quartz.dll .wav Multiple Remote Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Media Player - quartz.dll .wav Multiple Remote Denial of Service Vulnerabilities ! /usr/bin/perl CAL2quartzwavpoc.pl TwoMircoSoftMediaplayerquartz.dllwavremoteDosvulnerabilities by Code Audit Labs public 2009-04-19 http://www.vulnhunt.com/ Affected ======== test on full updated winxp sp...

Microsoft GDI Plugin - '.png' Infinite Loop Denial of Service (PoC)

!/usr/bin/perl CALgdiplugpoc.pl MircosoftgdiplugpnginfinityloopD.o.S POC by Code Audit Labs public 2009-04-17 http://www.vulnhunt.com/ Affected ======== test on full updated winxp sp3 other version should be affected CVE: please assign to a CVE number DESCRIPTION =========== The vulnerability...

iDefense Security Advisory 04.15.09: Microsoft WordPad Word97 Converter Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 iDefense Security Advisory 04.14.09 http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/ Apr 14, 2009 I. BACKGROUND WordPad is a word processing application included with Microsoft Windows. The Word97 converter is used to convert Word97 format...

The Virus Safe Computing Initiative from HP

This Google Tech Talk features Dr. Alan Karp of HP Labs, who details the company’s Virus Safe Computing Initiative...

CVE-2008-6635

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in skins/default.php in Geody Labs Dagger - The Cutting Edge r12feb2008, when registerglobals is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the dirinc parameter...

CVE-2008-6636

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in skins/default.php in Geody Labs Dagger - The Cutting Edge r12feb2008, when registerglobals is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the diredgeskins parameter. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the...