SA-CONTRIB-2012-093 - Node Embed - Access Bypass

Node Embed gives content editors an interface for selecting and embedding nodes using a WYSIWYG editor. The interface for selecting nodes is a page that had no access check, allowing users to view node titles they might not have access to. This issue only affects your site if you have unpublished...

Ubuntu Update for gdm-guest-session USN-1399-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1399-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN13991.nasl 7960 2017-12-01 06:58:16Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for gdm-guest-session USN-1399-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

USN-1399-1: gdm-guest-session vulnerability

Ryan Lortie discovered that gdm-guest-session improperly cleaned out certain guest session files. A local attacker could use this issue to delete arbitrary files...

Aaron Barr's Strange Trip To (Occupy) Wall Street

It was an “Elvis Meets Nixon” kind of moment: former HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr sporting blue hair and posing in front of a van sporting the Wikileaks logo down at New York’s Zuccotti Park, home of the Occupy Wall Street protest. What was he doing there? It’s complicated. In an interview with...

Aviv Raff on the Evolution of Exploit Kits

In this video, via Kaspersky’s Lab Matters, Ryan Naraine and Seculert’s Aviv Raff discuss the evolution of exploit kits and the recent merger of Spyeye and Zeus...

FBI Raids New York Homes of Suspected Anonymous Members

Agents of the FBI raided three homes in New York on Tuesday and seized computers believed to be involved in recent attacks by the Anonymous hacking group. FBI Agents raided three homes in Brooklyn, Baldwin and Merrick, New York at 6:00 AM, armed with search warrants seeking computers and related...

FBI searches LulzSec suspect home in Hamilton, Ohio

FBI searches LulzSec suspect home in Hamilton, Ohio The investigation into the LulzSec hacking team continues, with news that FBI agents have searched a house in Hamilton, Ohio. FBI investigation believed to have been fuelled by interviews with Ryan Cleary, but did not lead to charges. Federal...

UK Authorities Charge Suspected LulzSec Member for DDoS Attacks

A 19 year-old UK man was charged on Wednesday for the role he played in attacks on the UK’s Serious Organized Crime Agency SOCA as well as UK’s British Phonographic Industry BPI and International Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI, according to a statement released by the Metropolitan...

UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind

UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind British police say they have made a significant arrest in their investigation into hacking attacks on international business and intelligence agencies. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit PCeU have arrested a...

UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind

UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind British police say they have made a significant arrest in their investigation into hacking attacks on international business and intelligence agencies. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit PCeU have arrested a...

Anonymous IRC hacker, Ryan Cleary Exposed !

Anonymous IRC hacker, Ryan Cleary Exposed ! The 'Anonymous' collective named Ryan Cleary as the person responsible for breaching two of its own sites. The 18-year-old was accused of trying to bring down message boards used by Anonymous members to communicate with each other. Read Here 'We regret ...

Anonymous IRC networks - irc.anonops.net & irc.anonops.ru Hacked !

Anonymous IRC networks - irc.anonops.net & irc.anonops.ru Hacked ! Message By Anonymous : Dear Users of the AnonOps Network, We regret to inform you today that our network has been compromised by a former IRC-operator and fellow helper named "Ryan". He decided that he didn't like the leaderless...

Family Connections CMS 2.3.2 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting XML Injection

Family Connections CMS 2.3.2 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting XML Injection Family Connections CMS 2.3.2 Stored XSS And XPath Injection function xpathdocument.forms"xml".submit; function xssdocument.forms"xss".submit; a href="javascri...

Family Connections 2.3.2 - subject HTML Injection

Family Connections 2.3.2 - subject HTML Injection source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47037/info Family Connections is prone to an HTML-injection vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in...

Family Connections CMS 2.3.2 (POST) Stored XSS And XML Injection

Summary Family Connections is an open source content management system. It makes creating a private, family website easy and fun. Description FCMS suffers from a stored XSS vulnerability post-auth in messageboard.php script thru the 'subject' post parameter. XML Inj. lies in the /inc/getChat.php...

Family Connections 2.3.2 - 'subject' HTML Injection

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47037/info Family Connections is prone to an HTML-injection vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context...

Family Connections CMS 2.3.2 XSS / XML Injection

Family Connections CMS 2.3.2 Stored XSS And XPath Injection function xpathdocument.forms"xpath".submit; function xssdocument.forms"xss".submit; font color="r...

10 Lessons From The Pwn2Own Hacker Contest

The recent CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest saw successful hacking attacks against Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox and Apple’s Safari and iPhone products. Now that the dust has settled and the vendors are starting to patch the vulnerabilities, Threatpost editor Ryan Naraine takes a look ...

Previewing RSA Conference 2010

Dennis and Ryan preview the RSA Conference 2010 with their friend Tim Whitman, the head of the security practice at Schwartz Communications. Subscribe to the News Wrap podcast on Podcast audio courtesy of The New Radio Tough Road Ahead for Adobe on Security...

Guilt by Association: Modem Hacker Arrested for Others' Crimes

Hardware hacker and author, Ryan Harris, aka “DerEngel,” has been arrested in Boston for aiding and abetting intrusion and wire fraud. Harris oversees TCNiSO, a group who hacks cable modems and other hardware. Harris thinks he is being busted for the plights of those who took performance-boosting...