Strong Parameter bypass with create_with

The createwith functionality in Active Record was implemented incorrectly and completely bypasses the strong parameter protection...

Data Injection Vulnerability in Active Record

The createwith functionality in Active Record was implemented incorrectly and completely bypasses the strong parameters protection. Applications which pass user-controlled values to createwith could allow attackers to set arbitrary attributes on models...

Microsoft Passwords Research on Re-Use

Forget what you’ve been told about password re-use and weak credentials. If we’re to believe collaborating researchers from Microsoft and Carelton University, neither is such a bad idea. Flying in the face of conventional pleading from experts that “password” is a bad password, new research puts...

Password Security Scanner - Check the security/strength of your passwords on Windows

This utility scans the passwords stored by popular Windows applications Microsoft Outlook, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and more... and displays security information about all these passwords. The security information of every stored password includes the total number of characters, number...

RHEL 5 / 6 : openswan (RHSA-2014:0185)

Updated openswan packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating,...

Ultrasonic Password Security for Google Accounts

Does a Strong Password Guarantee you the Security of your Online Account? If yes, then you should once check out our 'Data breaches' section on the website. A Startup Company, SlickLogin has developed a technology that enables you to login into online accounts using Ultrasonic sound, instead of...

Cryptography Hacks - Hash Encryption using DuckDuckGo Search Engine

Over the past several months, it has become clear that the Internet and our Privacy have been fundamentally compromised. A Private search engine DuckDuckGo claims that when you click on one of their search results, they do not send personally identifiable information along with your request to th...

Starbucks' iOS app storing user credentials in plain text

Watch out, coffee drinkers. If you are one of those 10 million Starbucks customers, who purchases drinks and food directly from their Smartphones, this news is for you! If you use Starbucks’ official iOS app, you should know that the company is not encrypting any of your information, including yo...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: mod_nss-1.0.8-24.fc20

The modnss module provides strong cryptography for the Apache Web server via the Secure Sockets Layer SSL and Transport Layer Security TLS protocols using the Network Security Services NSS security library...

Alcatel OmniSwitch Default Credentials (http)

It is possible to log into the remote Alcatel Switch by providing the default credentials. A remote attacker could exploit this to gain administrative control of this installation. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: kdetoys-4.10.4-1.fc17

kdetoys includes: amor: Amusing Misuse Of Resources put's comic figures above your windows kteatime: makes sure your tea does not get too strong ktux: Tux-in-a-Spaceship screen saver...

Google Joins FIDO Alliance Effort to Move Beyond Passwords

Google, which gradually has been moving its users away from using passwords as their main form of authentication for Web services, has joined a young organization whose goal is to phase out passwords and replace them with various forms of strong authentication. The FIDO Alliance, formed last year...

Creative Ideas for Replacing Passwords

Passwords have been the de facto manner of providing security for IT systems. Theyve got a bad reputation, but its not the passwords themselves that deserve the reputation - its the individuals using them and the weak standards to which these passwords are managed. In fact, a password system...

Julian Assange's Book 'Cypherpunks' - Freedom and the Future of the Internet

Julian Assange publish a book based on his interview "Cypherpunks" on "The World Tomorrow", his controversial talk show, with the people he believes know the solution to the problems of privacy and freedom. The book called 'Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet,' was written by...

Worst password of 2012, Have you ever used one of these ?

This year we have seen some big Security breaches that expose millions of passwords like Yahoo!, LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm, among others , SplashData Reveals Its Annual "25 Worst Passwords of the Year" List. The three worst passwords haven't changed since 2011; they're password, 123456 and...

Rock band 'Garbage' twitter account Hacked to spam monetized link

Official Twitter account of Rock band 'Garbage' has been compromised and hacker is posting Spam tweets and links using adf.ly, which is a url shortener service that pays on clicks. Hacked twitter account hack around 55,563 Followers. Hacker can post malicious links also, but in this case we can s...

Citadel Malware Used to Infiltrate Airport VPN

The Citadel Trojan is really starting to become kind of a pain in the neck. Not content to sit by and watch while its more well-known rivals Zeus and SpyEye get all the attention, the Citadel malware has begun showing up in some interesting places, with the latest example being the discovery of t...

Server: Insufficiently random values

The rand and mtrand functions in PHP 5.4.x do not produce cryptographically strong random numbers, which allows attackers to leverage exposures in products that rely on these functions for security-relevant functionality, as demonstrated by the password-reset functionality in ownCloud 4.0.x. For...

Scientific Linux Security Update : openssl on SL5.x i386/x86_64

CVE-2009-2409 deprecate MD2 in SSL cert validation Kaminsky CVE-2009-4355 openssl significant memory leak in certain SSLv3 requests DoS It was found that the OpenSSL library did not properly re-initialize its internal state in the SSLlibraryinit function after previous calls to the...

Eaton Network Shutdown Module Default Administrator Credentials

The remote Eaton Network Shutdown Module install uses a default set of credentials to control access to its administrative functionality. With this information, an attacker can gain complete access to the application. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc...