Microsoft Windows Fraudulent Digital Certificates Spoofing Vulnerability

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Sophisticated Attack Yields Data On IEEE Members

IEEE, the world’s leading society for technical professionals, has warned some 800 members that their credit card and personal information may have been stolen. The FBI has been notified of the breach. The group disclosed the November, 2010 breach in a letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General...

Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Email Scams, Fake Antivirus and Phishing Attack Warning

US-CERT would like to warn users of potential email scams, fake antivirus and phishing attacks regarding the Japan earthquake and the tsunami disasters. Email scams may contain links or attachments which may direct users to phishing or malware-laden websites. Fake antivirus attacks may come in th...

Social networks to be monitored by Mumbai police to keep a check on hate pages !

After observing an increase in the number of phishing attacks and several other cyber crimes, the cyber police have intensified patrolling of the social networking sites. Police, with the help of IT experts, will keep a check on any hate posts or groups created in cyberspace. The action reportedl...

CVE-2011-0908

Open redirect vulnerability in Vanilla Forums before 2.0.17.6 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the Target parameter to an unspecified component, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0526...

Economic offences, cyber crime set to rise !!

Due to an increase in computer usage in private as well as the government sector, the police recorded a sharp rise in cyber crime last year. A desktop computer is a staple in most households, and use of laptops, net books and smart phones are a rage among everyone — from kids aged six to senior...

Reports Show the Prevalence of Spam Dropping

A Kaspersky Lab research report for November 2010 showed the amount of email based spam fell 0.06 percent to 76.8 percent from October. The study also showed there was a .47 percent decrease in the prevalence of phishing emails across all mail traffic and a .13 percent decrease in the frequency o...

PR10-06: Cross-domain redirect on PGP Universal Web Messenger

http://www.procheckup.com/vulnerabilitymanager/vulnerabilities/pr10-06 PR10-06 Cross-domain redirect on PGP Universal Web Messenger Advisory publicly released: Thursday, 16 December 2010 Vulnerability found: Wednesday, 10 February 2010 Vendor informed: Wednesday, 10 February 2010 Vulnerability...

Websites can steal your browser histories !

Java scripts invade the browsers' history cache and finds out what sites the browser has visited Some web sites are probing visiting browsers for data that can be used to help criminals craft phishing attacks that compromise the accounts of online banking customers, researchers have found. Java...

phpMyAdmin 'error.php' Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

phpMyAdmin is prone to a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability. 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 CPE =...

CVE-2009-5020

Open redirect vulnerability in awredir.pl in AWStats before 6.95 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2009-5020

Open redirect vulnerability in awredir.pl in AWStats before 6.95 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2009-5020

AWStats CVE-2009-5020 describes an open redirect in awredir.pl for versions before 6.95, enabling redirects to arbitrary sites and phishing via unspecified vectors. Affected: AWStats (awstats), vulnerability in awredir.pl. Root cause: improper redirect handling in AWStats

CVE-2009-5020

Open redirect vulnerability in awredir.pl in AWStats before 6.95 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2008-7269

Open redirect vulnerability in api.php in SiteEngine 5.x allows user-assisted remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via a URL in the forward parameter in a logout action...

9) Meet the new spam, same as the old spam

As in life in general, if something works, you stick with it. How else to explain the continued popularity and prevelance of e-mail based spam and phishing attacks, even though everyone knows that e-mail is so “1998”? Alas, the truth is that attacks embedded as links or malicious attachments in...

3) Beware of strangers bearing e-bates

With much of the world in the grips of a recession, coupon clipping is suddenly in vogue again. That’s true for online shoppers, as well, where the hunger for e-coupons has spawned legions of Web sites, including CouponSherpa.com, Ebates.com and the like. While reputable sites like these can be...

Set your Web browsers to "stun"…it's the online holiday shopping season. Here are ten tips for surviving it without getting yourself p4wn3d

Cyber Monday is billed as the biggest online shopping day of the year, with deep discounts from online merchants. But the truth is that your online shopping isn’t anywhere near done now that its passed, any more than your in store shopping is done now that the 3:00 AM Black Friday door buster...

CVE-2010-2732

Open redirect vulnerability in the web interface in Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway UAG 2010 Gold, 2010 Update 1, and 2010 Update 2 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via unspecified vectors, aka "UAG Redirection Spoofing...

Open redirect

Open redirect vulnerability in the web interface in Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway UAG 2010 Gold, 2010 Update 1, and 2010 Update 2 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via unspecified vectors, aka "UAG Redirection Spoofing...