IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 < Fix Pack 8.5.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities

IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.5 before Fix Pack 8.5.5 appears to be running on the remote host and is, therefore, potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The TLS protocol in the GSKIT component is vulnerable to a plaintext recovery attack. CVE-2013-0169, PM85211 - The...

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0 < Fix Pack 29 Multiple Vulnerabilities

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0 before Fix Pack 29 appears to be running on the remote host. It is, therefore, potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The TLS protocol in the GSKIT component is vulnerable to a plaintext recovery attack. CVE-2013-0169, PM85211 - The...

Amazon Joins Authentication Game

As attackers continue to target large databases of passwords and users grow wearier by the day of creating new accounts and login credentials on each site they visit, the larger Web players are positioning themselves as not just social networking or retail hubs, but also as authentication...

Hacking Instagram Accounts using OAuth vulnerability

'Nir Goldshlager' known as Facebook hacker and founder of Break Security , who reported many critical bugs in Facebook OAuth mechanism in past few months, today disclose a critical vulnerability in Instagram Oauth that allow an attacker to hack any account. Succesful hack allows attacker to acces...

Hacking Instagram Accounts using OAuth vulnerability

'Nir Goldshlager' known as Facebook hacker and founder of Break Security , who reported many critical bugs in Facebook OAuth mechanism in past few months, today disclose a critical vulnerability in Instagram Oauth that allow an attacker to hack any account. Succesful hack allows attacker to acces...

Another way to hack Facebook accounts using OAuth vulnerability

In recent few months White hat Hacker ,'Nir Goldshlager' reported many critical bugs in Facebook OAuth mechanism, that allowed an attacker to hijack any Facebook account without user's interaction. Another hacker, 'Amine Cherrai' reported a new Facebook OAuth flaw, whose exploitation is actually...

Another way to hack Facebook accounts using OAuth vulnerability

In recent few months White hat Hacker ,'Nir Goldshlager' reported many critical bugs in Facebook OAuth mechanism, that allowed an attacker to hijack any Facebook account without user's interaction. Another hacker, 'Amine Cherrai' reported a new Facebook OAuth flaw, whose exploitation is actually...

Skype, Dropbox Patch Critical Facebook Authentication Bugs

UPDATE Popular applications Skype and Dropbox fixed holes in their websites this week that could have allowed an attacker to gain control of users’ Facebook accounts. In what’s technically being referred to as an “open direct vulnerability,” both applications failed to validate sites before sendi...

URL Redirection flaw in Facebook apps push OAuth vulnerability again in action

In earlier posts, our Facebook hacker 'Nir Goldshlager' exposed two serious Facebook oAuth Flaws. One, Hacking a Facebook account even without the user installing an application on their account and second, various ways to bypassing the regex protection in Facebook OAuth. This time, Nir illustrat...

URL Redirection flaw in Facebook apps push OAuth vulnerability again in action

In earlier posts, our Facebook hacker 'Nir Goldshlager' exposed two serious Facebook oAuth Flaws. One, Hacking a Facebook account even without the user installing an application on their account and second, various ways to bypassing the regex protection in Facebook OAuth. This time, Nir illustrat...

Google Active Directory Sync (GADS) Tool 3.1.3 Information Disclosure

Sense of Security - Security Advisory - SOS-13-001 Release Date. 03-Apr-2013 Last Update. - Vendor Notification Date. 03-Sep-2012 Product. Google Active Directory Sync GADS Tool Platform. Windows, Linux, Solaris Affected versions. All versions up to 3.1.3 Severity Rating. High Impact. Exposure of...

Facebook hacking accounts using another OAuth vulnerability

Remember the last OAuth Flaw in Facebook, that allow an attacker to hijack any account without victim's interaction with any Facebook Application, was reported by white hat Hacker 'Nir Goldshlager'. After that Facebook security team fixed that issue using some minor changes. Yesterday Goldshlager...

Facebook hacking accounts using another OAuth vulnerability

Remember the last OAuth Flaw in Facebook, that allow an attacker to hijack any account without victim's interaction with any Facebook Application, was reported by white hat Hacker 'Nir Goldshlager'. After that Facebook security team fixed that issue using some minor changes. Yesterday Goldshlager...

Twitter OAuth API Keys Leaked

The OAuth keys and secrets that official Twitter applications use to access users’ Twitter accounts have been leaked in a post to Github this morning. The consumer keys and secrets, which function similarly to a username and password, were posted for Twitter for iPhone, Android, iPad, Mac, Window...

Facebook Patches OAuth Authentication Vulnerability

Social media supersite Facebook has fixed a vulnerability that could have allowed a hacker to access a user’s account simply by getting them to click through to a specially crafted website. The flaw essentially mimicked the functionality of an authentic Facebook application without actually...

Facebook OAuth flaw allows gaining full control over any Facebook account

Facebook OAuth is used to communicate between Applications & Facebook users, to grant additional permissions to your favorite apps. To make this possible, users have to 'allow or accept' the application request so that app can access your account information with required permissions. As a normal...

Facebook OAuth flaw allows gaining full control over any Facebook account

Facebook OAuth is used to communicate between Applications & Facebook users, to grant additional permissions to your favorite apps. To make this possible, users have to 'allow or accept' the application request so that app can access your account information with required permissions. As a normal...

Twitter to Update API to Require Authentication

In order to limit malicious use, Twitter is closing ranks around its API and requiring application developers use authentication in its upcoming new release. The company announced Thursday afternoon in a blog post that it was introducing new restrictions in v1.1 to create a “more consistent Twitt...

Scientific Linux Security Update : thunderbird on SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120717)

Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed content. Malicious content could cause Thunderbird to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Thunderbird. CVE-2012-1948,...

SeaMonkey < 2.11.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The installed version of SeaMonkey is earlier than 2.11.0. Such versions are potentially affected by the following security issues : - Several memory safety issues exist, some of which could potentially allow arbitrary code execution. CVE-2012-1948, CVE-2012-1949 - Several memory safety issues...