OpenJDK: InputStream skip() information leak (Networking/IO, 7000600)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component in Oracle Java SE JDK and JRE 7, 6 Update 27 and earlier, 5.0 Update 31 and earlier, and 1.4.233 and earlier allows remote untrusted Java Web Start applications and untrusted Java applets to affect confidentiality via unknown...

Facebook 2012 Hacker Cup announced !

Facebook 2012 Hacker Cup announced Facebook today announced open registration for its second annual Hacker Cup, an annual algorithmic programming contest open to engineers from around the world. Programmers will be judged on accuracy and speed as they race to solve algorithmic problems to advance...

India orders Net firms to censor themselves

India orders Net firms to censor themselves Some of the world's top websites will have to purge themselves of all content that is offensive to Indians by February 6. The companies must update their progress on the effort within two weeks, a court in New Delhi ordered on Saturday, the reports say...

Iran government websites now on local server to Protect them from Cyber Attacks

Iran government websites now on local server to Protect them from Cyber Attacks An Iranian official says the country has transferred the location of most of its government websites from foreign-based hosting agencies to new computer facilities inside the country to avert potential cyber attacks...

Ubuntu Update for linux-ti-omap4 USN-1304-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1304-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN13041.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-ti-omap4 USN-1304-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.n...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1304-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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...

USN-1304-1 : linux-ti-omap4 vulnerabilities

A bug was discovered in the XFS filesystem's handling of pathnames. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or gain root privileges. CVE-2011-4077 Nick Bowler discovered the kernel GHASH message digest algorithm incorrectly handled error conditions...

USN-1304-1: Linux kernel (OMAP4) vulnerabilities

A bug was discovered in the XFS filesystem's handling of pathnames. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service, or gain root privileges. CVE-2011-4077 Nick Bowler discovered the kernel GHASH message digest algorithm incorrectly handled error conditions...

SuSE 10 Security Update : IBM Java (ZYPP Patch Number 7698)

IBM Java 1.4.2 SR 13 Fixpack 10 has been released and fixes various bugs and security issues. The following security issues have been fixed : - Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE component in Oracle Java SE 6 Update 25 and earlier, 5.0 Update 29 and earlier, and 1.4.231...

Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-backport-oneiric USN-1294-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1294-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN12941.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-lts-backport-oneiric USN-1294-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-oneiric vulnerabilities (USN-1294-1)

Peter Huewe discovered an information leak in the handling of reading security-related TPM data. A local, unprivileged user could read the results of a previous TPM command. CVE-2011-1162 Vasiliy Kulikov discovered that taskstats did not enforce access restrictions. A local attacker could exploit...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1294-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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...

Facebook Settles with FTC on Privacy Grounds

The Federal Trade Commission FTC proposed a settlement with social networking giant Facebook on Tuesday, requiring the site to take the privacy of its users more seriously and subject itself to privacy audits every two years for the next 20 years, according to an article in the New York Times. Th...

OpenJDK: InputStream skip() information leak (Networking/IO, 7000600)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component in Oracle Java SE JDK and JRE 7, 6 Update 27 and earlier, 5.0 Update 31 and earlier, and 1.4.233 and earlier allows remote untrusted Java Web Start applications and untrusted Java applets to affect confidentiality via unknown...

OpenJDK: excessive default UDP socket limit under SecurityManager (Networking, 7032417)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment component in Oracle Java SE JDK and JRE 7, 6 Update 27 and earlier, 5.0 Update 31 and earlier, and 1.4.233 and earlier allows remote attackers to affect integrity via unknown vectors related to Networking...

Oracle Java SE Multiple Vulnerabilities - October 2011 (Windows01)

This host is installed with Oracle Java SE and is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gboraclejavasemultvulnoct11win01.nasl 7699 2017-11-08 12:10:34Z santu $ Oracle Java SE Multiple Vulnerabilities - October 2011 Windows01 Authors: Sooraj KS Copyright: Copyright c...

Oracle Java SE 1.4, 5, 6, 7 Multiple Vulnerabilities (cpuoct2011) - Windows

Oracle Java SE is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS : linux-lts-backport-natty vulnerabilities (USN-1256-1)

It was discovered that the /proc filesystem did not correctly handle permission changes when programs executed. A local attacker could hold open files to examine details about programs running with higher privileges, potentially increasing the chances of exploiting additional vulnerabilities...

Major DNS Cache Poisoning Attack Hits Brazilian ISPs

There is a large-scale DNS cache-poisoning attack going on in Brazil at the moment, with potentially millions of users affected by a tactic that is forcing the to install a malicious Java applet before they can reach many popular sites, including Google, Gmail and Hotmail. The attack has been goi...

A Doomsday Worm - The Sputnik of 2011

We had an Interesting Article by "Paul F Renda " in our The Hacker News Magazine's November Edition. We would Like to share this article with our website readers also. You can Download November Issue Here. This is a theoretical prima to bring out a discussion about whether an Internet doomsday wo...