Change this Facebook Privacy Setting That Could Allow Hackers to Steal Your Identity

Facebook User: Who Can Find Me...? Hacker: Yes, I CAN!! A Security Researcher claimed “digi-crims could easily scan the population of an entire country to find targets”. Reza Moaiandin, technical director at Salt Agency, has figured out a way to exploit an important Facebook feature to gather...

Scientific Linux Security Update : firefox on SL5.x, SL6.x, SL7.x i386/x86_64 (20150807)

A flaw was discovered in Mozilla Firefox that could be used to violate the same-origin policy and inject web script into a non-privileged part of the built-in PDF file viewer PDF.js. An attacker could create a malicious web page that, when viewed by a victim, could steal arbitrary files including...

Warning! Update Mozilla Firefox to Patch Critical File Stealing Vulnerability

Earlier this week, Mozilla Security researcher Cody Crews discovered a malicious advertisement on a Russian news site that steals local files from a system and upload them to a Ukrainian server without the user ever knowing. The malicious advertisement was exploiting a serious vulnerability in...

firefox: local file stealing via PDF reader

Security researcher Cody Crews reported on a way to violate the same origin policy and inject script into a non-privileged part of the built-in PDF Viewer. This would allow an attacker to read and steal sensitive local files on the victim's computer. Mozilla has received reports that an exploit...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2015-78 Same origin violation and local file stealing via PDF reader...

Emissary Panda APT Group Gets Selective About Data it Steals

LAS VEGAS – The Emissary Panda APT group has a long history of invading Western organizations—be they enterprises, government or political outfits—hungry for reams of intellectual property. Lately the group, however, has become a little more selective about what it steals. Researchers at Dell...

Sadly, Windows 10 Is Stealing Your Bandwidth 'By Default' — Disable It Immediately

After installing Windows 10, Feeling like your Internet Bandwidth is dropping away? Windows 10 is stealing your network bandwidth. Along with the privacy features related to Wi-Fi Sense, Windows 10 users should check for another hidden by default feature that uses your network bandwidth to share...

Password Stealing Vulnerabilities Outlined in iOS, OSX

A group of researchers from Indiana University say that they’ve found a handful of vulnerabilities in both Apple’s OS X and iOS, and perhaps more worrisome, cracked the Keychain service that the company uses for apps and their sandboxes on OS X. A series of weak app-to-app authentication...

Stegoloader Malware Uses Steganography to Hide Itself

Malware writers aren’t hesitant to do what it takes to protect a campaign and keep it hidden from detection technologies and security researchers. The group behind the Stegoloader malware, disclosed Monday by researchers at Dell SecureWorks, has taken to digital steganography to keep its...

HP WebInspect 10.4 - XML External Entity Injection

HP WebInspect 10.4 - XML External Entity Injection Exploit Title: HP WebInspect - XML External Entity Date: 23\04\2015 Exploit Author: Jakub Palaczynski Vendor Homepage: http://www.hp.com/ Version: 10.4, 10.3, 10.2, 10.1, 10.0, 9.x, 8.x, 7.x CVE : CVE-2015-2125 1. Create website that exploits...

Updated ruby-rest-client packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated ruby-rest-client packages fix security vulnerability: When Ruby rest-client processes an HTTP redirection response, it blindly passes along the values from any Set-Cookie headers to the redirection target, regardless of domain, path, or expiration. This can be used in a session fixation...

Dangerous 'Vawtrak Banking Trojan' Harvesting Passwords Worldwide

Security researcher has discovered some new features in the most dangerous Vawtrak, aka Neverquest, malware that allow it to send and receive data through encrypted favicons distributed over the secured Tor network. The researcher, Jakub Kroustek from AVG anti-virus firm, has provided an in-depth...

Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Websense Data Security block page

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in Websense Data Security block page ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Han Sahin, September 2014...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2531-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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 ifdescription...

Carbanak Ring Steals $1 Billion from Banks

CANCUN, Mexico – Hackers in Eastern Europe are bleeding banks dry, stealing as much as $1 billion from more than 100 financial institutions in a string of attacks that borrow heavily from targeted attacks against sensitive government and industrial targets. Researchers from Kaspersky Lab on Monda...

RHEL 5 : java-1.4.2-ibm-sap (RHSA-2012:1080)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1080 advisory. - OpenJDK: JavaSound incorrect bounds check Sound, 7088367 CVE-2011-3563 - Oracle JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u31 and 7u3 2D...

jQuery Official Website Compromised To Serve Malware

The official website of the popular cross-platform JavaScript library jQuery jquery.com has been compromised and redirecting its visitors to a third-party website hosting the RIG exploit kit, in order to distribute information-stealing malware. JQuery is a free and open source JavaScript library...

jQuery.com Hacked, Redirecting to RIG Exploit Kit

Owners of websites built using the jQuery library are being warned of an attack against the toolkit’s website which is redirecting visitors to a third-party site hosting the RIG exploit kit. JQuery is a free and open source JavaScript library used for a number of things, including building AJAX...

Android Browser Same Origin Policy Bypass

Vulnerability: Android Browser Same Origin Policy Bypass Impact: High/Critical Authors: Rafay Baloch Company: RHAinfoSEC Website: http://rhainfosec.com http://rafayhackingarticles.net Introduction Same Origin Policy SOP is one of the most important security mechanisms that are applied in modern...

Malicious Advertisements Found on Java.com, Other High-Profile Sites

A New York-based online ad network company AppNexus, that provides a platform specializing in real-time online advertising, has again been spotted as the origin of a recent "malvertising" campaign that makes use of the Angler Exploit Kit to redirect visitors to malicious websites hosting the Aspr...