Best Practices for Recovery from the Malicious Erasure of Files

There are many ways in which cyber criminals can damage computer systems and data, including changing or deleting files, wiping hard drives, and erasing backups to hide their malicious activity. Hard drives are wiped, or "zeroed out," when the original data is overwritten with zeros or different...

Phishing Campaign Using Spoofed US-CERT Email Addresses

On January 10, 2012, US-CERT received reports of a phishing campaign that is spoofing US-CERT email to deliver a variant of the Zeus/Zbot Trojan known as Ice-IX. This campaign appears to be targeting a large number of private sector organizations as well as federal, state, and local governments...

Gamers Seek Beta Versions, Download Malware Instead

Tracking the increasingly common use of PC games as an infection vector, researchers at the Microsoft Malware Protection Center MMPC discovered a couple of malicious programs making the rounds on torrent and file sharing sites. Social engineers are disguising their malware by labeling it as the...

USAA Phishing Scam and Malware Campaign

US-CERT is aware of public reports of an active spear-phishing attack via email messages directed at United Services Automobile Association USAA members. These messages contain the subject line "Deposit Posted" and contain a randomly generated four-digit number placed in the USAA security zone...

Generation Y Won't Listen To IT

The latest generation of desk-jockey’s admitted in a recent CISCO study that they frequently ignore and/or circumvent the information technology IT policies of their employers, heightening corporate risk. The CISCO Connected World Technology Report surveyed some 2,800 college students and young...

Fortune 500 Gets "F" In Social Engineering Hacking Test

It was another year, another “F” for the top, U.S. firms targeted in the annual Social Engineering Capture the Flag CTF Contest at the DEFCON hacking conference, according to a report released on Monday. Some of the U.S.’s top firms, including Apple Computer, IBM, AT&T, McDonald’s and retail gian...

Facebook "Trusted friends" Security Feature Easily Exploitable

Facebook "Trusted friends " Security Feature Easily Exploitable Last week Facebook announced that in one day 600,000 accounts possibly get hacked. Another possible solution for Facebook to combat security issues is to find 3 to 5 "Trusted friends ". Facebook will be adding two new security featur...

There's something "Human" to Social Engineering !

There's something "Human" to Social Engineering ! At the psychological skill of Social Engineering Social engineering is the human side of breaking into corporate or personal pc's to gain information. Even companies that have an authentication process, firewalls, vpn's and network monitoring...

There's something "Human" to Social Engineering !

There's something "Human " to Social Engineering ! At the psychological skill of Social Engineering Social engineering is the human side of breaking into corporate or personal pc's to gain information. Even companies that have an authentication process, firewalls, vpn's and network monitoring...

Informant Says Hacks, Threats Followed Release Of Occupy Wall Street E-Mail

Thomas Ryan, the independent security consultant who released a trove of e-mail communications from the Occupy Wall Street protesters, said he has been the target of numerous hacks and has received death threats after revealing information on the protestors plans to authorities. In a conversation...

Reality Based Cyber Crime Novella Explores Aftermath of Stuxnet Attack On Iran

Reality Based Cyber Crime Novella Explores Aftermath of Stuxnet Attack On Iran GRAND RAPIDS – Cyber Styletto is a new novella by a journalist, a writer, and a security expert who have pooled their talents to create an enthralling good read that is future forward and predictive. The facts are base...

Suspect in "Hackerazzi" Case Says He Will Plead Guilty

A 35 year-old Florida man is facing a lengthy prison term after being arrested in connection with high profile hacks of the Web-based email accounts of more than 50 celebrities, including Hollywood ingenue Scarlett Johansson. According to a copy of the indictment PDF, Christopher Chaney of...

Hcon's Security Testing Framework (Hcon STF) v0.1beta

Hcon's Security Testing Framework Hcon STF v0.1beta After the first demo of Hfox, many people asked about a Chromium based framework for penetration testing/ethical hacking. After 3 months of work and research, and some input from AJ, the following tool has been developed for the arsenal of Hcon'...

ScriptFTP LIST Remote Buffer Overflow

AmmSoft's ScriptFTP client is susceptible to a remote buffer overflow vulnerability that is triggered when processing a sufficiently long filename during a FTP LIST command resulting in overwriting the exception handler. Social engineering of executing a specially crafted ftp file by double click...

Zero Day Flaws Overvalued Says New Microsoft Report

Attention given to previously unknown or “zero day” flaws may be overrated, according to research from Microsoft Corp. In an analysis, “Zeroing in on Malware Propagation Methods,” Microsoft follows the propagation of malware and how certain forms measure up against other vulnerability exploits...

ScriptFTP <= 3.3 Remote Buffer Overflow (LIST)

Exploit for windows platform in category remote exploits $Id: scriptftplist.rb 13841 2011-10-09 05:36:42Z sinn3r $ This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on...

Novell GroupWise WebAccess Directory.Item Parameters XSS

The version of Novell GroupWise installed on the remote Windows host is earlier than 8.0.2 HP3. It is, therefore, reportedly affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability because the application fails to sanitize user-supplied input to the 'Directory.Item.name' and 'Directory.Item.displayName'...

winwebmail mention the right-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Another collection below winwebmail default installation path, this is for if in Start—program there is no winwebmail shortcut. c:\winwebmail\web if you cannot browse to change to the d:\winwebmail\web\ In addition, if you can not find the path please use Registry to read the...

Proof of Concept : PuttyHijack – Hijack SSH/PuTTY Sessions

Proof of Concept : PuttyHijack - Hijack SSH/PuTTY Sessions PuttyHijack is a POC tool that injects a dll into the Putty process to hijack an existing, or soon to be created, connection. This can be useful during penetration tests when a windows box that has been compromised is used to SSH/Telnet...

7-Technologies Interactive Graphical SCADA

Overview ICS-CERT originally released Advisory ICSA-11-353-01P on the US-CERT secure portal on December 19, 2011. This web page release was delayed to allow users time to download and install the update. Researcher Kuang-Chun Hung of Security Research and Service Institute--Information and...