Update : Backtrack Kali Linux 1.0.3 released with built-in accessibility features

BackTrack Linux, a specialized distribution of penetration testing tools, has long been a favorite of security specialists and IT pros. Security professionals have been relying on the BackTrack security distribution for many years to help them perform their assessments. A couple of weeks ago,...

jigbrowser+ for Android vulnerable to address bar spoofing

Overview jigbrowser+ for Android contains an issue when opening a new window, which may result in the address bar being spoofed. Keita Haga of keitahaga.com reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early Warning Partnership. Impact Th...

Ubuntu 13.04 : mysql-5.5 vulnerabilities (USN-1807-2)

USN-1807-1 fixed vulnerabilities in MySQL. This update provides MySQL 5.5.31 for Ubuntu 13.04. Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.1.69 in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 11.10. Ubuntu...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : mysql-5.1, mysql-5.5, mysql-dfsg-5.1 vulnerabilities (USN-1807-1)

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.1.69 in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 11.10. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.10 have been updated to MySQL 5.5.31. In addition to security fixes, th...

Chris Hoff Discusses His Early Days of Hacking and Security

Dennis Fisher talks with Chris Hoff of Juniper Networks about his childhood scaring sheep on a farm in New Zealand, his early days hacking on the first wave of personal computers, his misadventures in a college computer lab and how he ended up as an itinerant security guy. Download: 05chrishoff.m...

CVE-2013-0129

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in pd-admin before 4.17 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via 1 the WebFTP Overview "Create new directory" field or 2 the body of an e-mail autoresponder message...

Microsoft Metadata Services New Device Detection

Binary data 7080.pasl...

[REMnux] A Linux Distribution for Malware Analysis

REMnux incorporates a number of tools for analyzing malicious executables that run on Microsoft Windows, as well as browser-based malware, such as Flash programs and obfuscated JavaScript. This popular toolkit includes programs for analyzing malicious documents, such PDF files, and utilities for...

USN-1799-1: NVIDIA graphics drivers vulnerability

It was discovered that the NVIDIA graphics drivers incorrectly handled large ARGB cursors. A local attacker could use this issue to gain root privileges. The NVIDIA graphics drivers have been updated to 304.88 to fix this issue. In addition to the security fix, the updated packages contain bug...

CVE-2013-0284

Ruby agent 3.2.0 through 3.5.2 serializes sensitive data when communicating with servers operated by New Relic, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information database credentials and SQL statements by sniffing the network and deserializing the data...

Fedora 18 : drupal7-rules-2.3-1.fc18 (2013-4532)

New upstream version, http://drupal.org/node/1954508 and http://drupal.org/node/1954592. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in KrisonAV CMS

High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab discovered multiple vulnerabilities in KrisonAV CMS, which can be exploited to perform cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery attacks. 1 Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in KrisonAV CMS: CVE-2013-2712 The vulnerability exists due to...

Active Perl Modules Multiple Vulnerabilities (Windows)

The host is installed with Active Perl and is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbactiveperlmodulesmultvulnwin.nasl 6115 2017-05-12 09:03:25Z teissa $ Active Perl Modules Multiple Vulnerabilities Windows Authors: Arun Kallavi Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone...

Stable Channel Update

The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 26 to the Stable Channel. Chrome 26.0.1410.43 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame contains number of new items including: "Ask Google for suggestions" spell checking feature improvements e.g. grammar and homonym checking Desktop...

Apple Takes Tool offline After New Security Hole Surfaces

Less than a day after Apple announced a new two-factor authentication to better protect Apple ID and iCloud accounts, the company was scrambling to fix another major security hole with its own password reset tool. As first reported earlier Friday by The Verge, this new exploit allows anyone to ga...

Apple adds two-factor authentication to iCloud and Apple ID

Apple is beefing up the security of its iCloud and Apple ID accounts by adding two-factor authentication to the account login process. Users who activate the option will be required to enter a four-digit code they may receive via SMS message, aside from the usual password. Two-factor authenticati...

Apple Adds Two-Factor Authentication to iTunes Accounts

Apple has introduced a new two-factor authentication system designed to help protect users’ iTunes and App Store accounts and prevent attackers or unauthorized users from taking over users’ accounts. The system is similar to the one that Google has implemented for Gmail, utilizing verification...

Apple adds two-factor authentication to iCloud and Apple ID

Apple is beefing up the security of its iCloud and Apple ID accounts by adding two-factor authentication to the account login process. Users who activate the option will be required to enter a four-digit code they may receive via SMS message, aside from the usual password. Two-factor authenticati...

Fedora 17 : mediawiki-1.19.4-2.fc17 (2013-3227)

Bring mediawiki up to date to fix multiple bugs, security holes, and bring new features. The package should automatically attempt to upgrade your wiki, but please make sure to perform backups before updating. Special care may be required for MySQL based wikis. See bug 845818. Read the main...

Fedora 18 : mediawiki-1.19.4-2.fc18 (2013-3265)

Bring mediawiki up to date to fix multiple bugs, security holes, and bring new features. The package should automatically attempt to upgrade your wiki, but please make sure to perform backups before updating. Special care may be required for MySQL based wikis. See bug 845818. Read the main...