Beware of Fraudulent Sites, phishing for Twitter accounts

There's a scam spreading through Twitter Direct messages DMs and fake emails, appealing users to visit a fake twitter phishing site i.e "twittler.com". Scam uses a hijacked Twitter account to send out direct messages that appear completely legitimate. Security blogger, Janne Ahlberg blogged about...

Firefox Adds Mixed Content Blocking by Default

The proliferation of SSL-protected sites has been a boon for security conscious Web users in the last couple of years, as more and more sites have taken the step of offering encrypted connections for sensitive sessions. But one of the problems that’s cropped up is that the dynamic nature of today...

Citadel Banking Malaware Variant Delivers Localized Content

With builders for the Citadel Trojan freely available on any number of underground criminal forums, it’s no surprise to see some legs left in the malware despite a takedown of more than 1,400 Citadel botnets less than a month ago by U.S. law enforcement and Microsoft. A new variant has popped up ...

CVE-2013-1698

The getUserMedia permission implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 22.0 references the URL of a top-level document instead of the URL of a specific page, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick users into permitting camera or microphone access via a crafted web site that uses IFRAME...

WordPress Update 3.5.2 Patches Seven Vulnerabilities

WordPress, which has been a jumping off point for a number of targeted attacks and other high-profile hacks, has been updated and the latest version includes a number of security patches. Version 3.5.2, released late last week, includes seven security fixes and some additional hardening, accordin...

Xopie Virtual Shop Cross Site Scripting

+=============================================================================================+ + Xopie Virtual Shop & XSS & Allow Execute Evil Remote Code + +=============================================================================================+ Authors:Raul DiazDshellnoi Unix & Ivan...

Apple Phishing Scams on the Rise

Apple has one of the more gilded consumer brands and the company spends a lot of time and money to keep it that way. Consumers love Apple. Scammers and attackers do too, though, and security researchers in recent months have seen a major spike in the volume of phishing emails abusing Apple’s bran...

Popular WordPress Themes, Plug-Ins Vulnerable to Attack

Since late March, no fewer than a half-dozen high profile attacks have involved a compromised website built on the WordPress platform. Attackers abuse vulnerabilities in the content management system’s customizable plug-ins and themes to pull off anything from drive-by downloads to watering hole...

65 Sites Compromised in ZeroAccess Trojan Attacks

As many as 65 websites have been compromised in an attack that has snared another Washington, D.C.-area media website as well as a number of travel and leisure sites. While the sites aren’t topically related, they’re all hosting advertisements injected with malicious code hosted on...

Open redirect

Open redirect vulnerability in the fwdToURL function in the ZCC login page in zcc-framework.jar in Novell ZENworks Configuration Management ZCM 11.2 before 11.2.3a Monthly Update 1 allows remote attackers to redirect users to arbitrary web sites and conduct phishing attacks via the directToPage...

MozTrap Open Redirect

Title: moztrap.mozilla.org URL Redirection Vulnerability Discovery Date: 15/04/13 | Release Date: 13/06/13 Author: Junaid Hussain illSecure Research Group Contact: [email protected] | Website: illSecure.com Risk: Low...

ssl_certificate

This plugin audits SSL certificate parameters. One configurable parameter exists: minExpireDays CA PEM file path Note: Its only usefull when testing HTTPS sites. Plugin type Audit Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- minExpireDays | integer | 30 | Set minim...

Telaen 2.7.x - Open Redirection

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60290/info Telaen is prone to an open-redirection vulnerability. An attacker can leverage this issue by constructing a crafted URI and enticing a user to follow it. When an unsuspecting victim follows the link, they may be redirected to an...

MyBB Ajax Chat SQL Vulnerability

Dork: intitle:MyBB Ajax Chat http://server/chatframe.php?rs=getChats&rsargs=" http://wolf-den.net/forums/chatframe.php?rs=getChats&rsargs=" http://www.cycle-soft.com/forum/chatframe.php?rs=getChats&rsargs=" http://www.forofusion.com/chatframe.php?rs=getChats&rsargs="...

mozilla-thunderbird x86_64 packages

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware64 13.37 and 14.0. These were accidentally omitted from the last upload. Here are the details from the Slackware64 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-17.0.6-x8664-1slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. Here's the package that was...

U.S. Department of Defense Officials are potential target of cyber espionage via social networking sites

In the recent months I had the opportunity to conduct an interesting study on the use of Social Media in the Military Sector, large diffusion of media platforms makes them very attractive for governments and intelligence agencies. Social media platforms reveal enormous potentiality that could be...

Hacked Media Sites Serving Fake AV Malware

Websites belonging to a number of Washington, D.C.-area media outlets have been compromised in a series of opportunistic attacks with criminals using a watering-hole tactic to spread scareware, or phony antivirus software. Popular D.C. radio station WTOP, sister station Federal News Radio, and th...

Millions of WordPress sites exploitable for DDoS Attacks using Pingback mechanism

Distributed Denial of Service attacks have increased in scale, intensity and frequency. The wide range of motives for these attacks political , criminal, or social makes every merchant or organization with an online presence a potential target. Over the weekend Incapsula mitigated a unique DDoS...

UK banks hit by Ramnit banking malware and social engineering attacks

A dangerous variant of the Ramnit malware has been discovered targeting the UK's financial sector. Trusteer claims to have discovered an interesting trojan based attack technique that injects highly convincing and interactive real-time messages into the user Web stream that they encounter when...

Malware More Globally Distributed, Still Made in China

In an attempt to better evade detection, cybercriminals are increasingly configuring their command and control infrastructure in such a way that initial malware callbacks communicate with a server located in the same country as the newly infected machines. This emerging trend is among the vast an...