Under the hood of recent DDoS Attack on U.S. Banks

Incapsula security study reveals how a simple neglect in managing the administrative password of a small UK site was quickly exploited by Botnet shepherds operating obscurely out of Turkey to hurl large amounts of traffic at American banks. If you've been following the news, you are probably awar...

Report: Websites Getting Safer, Yet XSS Bugs Persist

The number of vulnerabilities in the average Web site is actually decreasing, one of the more surprising findings in an annual study done by WhiteHat Security. The 30-page report is the culmination of a project in which the firm combed through approximately 7,000 websites and discovered 79 seriou...

Symantec Experiment: Half Of Those Who Find Smartphones Don't Return Them

Good Samaritans are few and far between when it comes to lost cell phones, according to the conclusions of a social experiment conducted by security firm Symantec. Smart phones are unlikely to be returned by those who find them, but very likely to be perused for sensitive data including photos,...

Fedora Update for kiten FEDORA-2011-13417

Check for the Version of kiten OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for kiten FEDORA-2011-13417 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms...

Terry McCorkle

Terry McCorkle, a Seattle-based researcher presented the results of an independent study on Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems SCADA and Industrial Control Systems ICS where he and his research partner Billy Rios attempted to find 100 bugs in 100 days. They wound up finding 1000+ bu...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: kiten-4.7.1-2.fc16

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How Spammy Facebook Scams Still Manage to Claim Millions of Victims

As Facebook scams continue to loom and infiltrate news feeds, web security firm Websense has conducted a study to tabulate just how far these campaigns stretch. The news isn’t encouraging, with scams on Facebook estimated to reach more than a million users in a matter of days. According to a...

WLAN Security Megaprimer DVD Released - 10+ hours of Wi-Fi Hacking and Pwnage !

WLAN Security Megaprimer DVD Released - 10+ hours of Wi-Fi Hacking and Pwnage ! With over 40+ HD videos containing 12+ hours of Wireless Ownage, this DVD weighs in at around 4.2 Gigabytes! SecurityTube.net just released a 4.2 GB DVD containing over 40+ HD quality videos of their WLAN Security...

WLAN Security Megaprimer DVD Released - 10+ hours of Wi-Fi Hacking and Pwnage !

WLAN Security Megaprimer DVD Released - 10+ hours of Wi-Fi Hacking and Pwnage ! With over 40+ HD videos containing 12+ hours of Wireless Ownage, this DVD weighs in at around 4.2 Gigabytes! SecurityTube.net just released a 4.2 GB DVD containing over 40+ HD quality videos of their WLAN Security...

Scientists Want to Track Attacks Via Web Services

Developers could build a framework that could maintain transactional records among web services in order to recreate the scene of the crime in the aftermath of a cyber attack, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology suggest in a new study. Read the full article...

Ponemon Study: Cloud Security Worry Real

IT professionals are fearful that sensitive data will fall into the wrong hands if cloud-based services are used by their organizations, but many acknowledge that the risks are being ignored by some employees who may already be using cloud computing, according to a new survey. Read the full...

EC Considering Cybercrime Division

European ministers are considering establishing a new agency that would tie together law enforcement agencies and other entities dedicated to fighting cybercrime. The Council of the European Union, composed of ministers from 27 countries, issued a document earlier this week calling for the Europe...

Spyware Botnet 'GhostNet' Uses The Cloud

Espionage network GhostNet, first identified about a year ago, is much larger and more sophisticated than previously assumed according to a study entitled “Shadows in the Cloud”, by the Munk Centre for International Studies, the Information Warfare Monitor, the SecDev Group and the Shadowserver...

P2P Networks Can Nab Private Medical Info

The personal health and financial information stored in thousands of North American home computers may be vulnerable to theft through file-sharing software, according to a research study published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Read the full article...

Cost of Data Breaches Rose in 2009

The cost of a data breach increased last year to $204 per compromised customer record, according to the Ponemon Institute’s annual study. The average total cost of a data breach rose from $6.65 million in 2008 to $6.75 million in 2009. Read the full article. IDG News...

Multiple Media Players ((iTunes QuickTime) - HTTP DataHandler Overflow

Multiple Media Players iTunes QuickTime - HTTP DataHandler Overflow ScaryMovie Exploit Study By: DrIDE October, 2009 There is a widespread failure in the way that .MOV files are handled by the Quicktime Library. I have attempted to compound my findings on this issue. Nearly every .MOV enabled...

Multiple Media Players ((iTunes / QuickTime) - HTTP DataHandler Overflow

ScaryMovie Exploit Study By: DrIDE October, 2009 There is a widespread failure in the way that .MOV files are handled by the Quicktime Library. I have attempted to compound my findings on this issue. Nearly every .MOV enabled application that I tested fell victim to this exploit. This is a local...

Hacking tip: provide the right technical study _Discuz! Administrator a copy-and-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Crossday Discuz! Board Forum systemDiscuz! Forumis the one using PHP and MySQL, and other various databases to build efficient forum to resolvethe programme. As a commercial software product, Discuz! In code quality, operational efficiency, load capacity, security level, functional control and...

CVE-2010-0157

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Bible Study combiblestudy component 6.1 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. dot dot in the controller parameter in a studieslist action to index.php...

Directory traversal

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Bible Study combiblestudy component 6.1 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. dot dot in the controller parameter in a studieslist action to index.php...