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International Monetary Fund Reportedly Hacked
The International Monetary Fund is the victim of a sophisticated, targeted attack that has compromised an unknown number of systems within the organization, Bloomberg reports. The Washington, D.C. based organization sent employees a memo informing them that a desktop computer within the IMF had...
Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts of U.S. & Asia
Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts of U.S. & Asia Hackers around the world are gaining more attention than usual in the last few months. Now Google has added another announcement to the pile that hundreds of Gmail accounts have been hacked recently. Now, Google affirms that the...
Microsoft Excel Data Validation Record Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Excel is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user to open a specially crafted Excel file. Successful exploits can allow attackers to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the...
Thousands of Bank of America Accounts Hacked !
Thousands of Bank of America customers' account information could be in jeopardy after a major security breach. Christy Clark went to a Royal Oak drug store Friday, but when her debit card was declined, she knew something was wrong. "I was very embarrassed," Clark said. She went straight to the...
Step 7: Practice Safe Browsing
Rogue antivirus and scareware typically requires user interaction to get a toe hold on victims’ computers. Users can protect themselves by steering clear of suspicious or merely opaque links such as the shortened links common on Twitter and other social media platforms. Beware of pop-up ads warni...
BlackHole RAT : Mac OS X backdoor Trojan !
'BlackHole' is the latest remote administration tool RAT and is available both in Windows and Mac. Hacktool such RAT employs client-server program that communicates to its victim's machine through its trojan server. The server application is installed on the victim while the client application is...
3G technology will increase cyber crime !
Cyber Crime has now reached to hacking information from the mobile phones. The 3G technology recently launched by the mobile service providers is in much rage nowadays. The 3G technology allows a user to access internet on a good quality network on the cellphone. As such hackers will now target t...
A Day After CEO Is Hacked, Launches New Facebook Security Features !
Coincidence? Unfortunately, probably yes. One day, when your fan site of Mark Zuckerberg has allegedly violated, Facebook has introduced two new security measures. If these guys react or what? They also got "must be used for online banking transactions, such as safety tips. Immediate effect, user...
Microsoft Publisher (CVE-2010-3954) Memory Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Publisher is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user into opening a specially crafted Publisher file. Successfully exploiting this issue allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of t...
Microsoft Internet Explorer Uninitialized Object CVE-2010-3340 Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability. Successful exploits will allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the user running the application. Failed attacks will cause denial-of-service conditions. Technologies Affected Avaya Au...
Potential attack vector using attachments
Suspicious handling of attachment uploads with filenames containing quotes the quoted ended up being repeated and semicolons semicolon and all subsequent characters were stripped from filename...
Potential attack vector using attachments
Suspicious handling of attachment uploads with filenames containing quotes the quoted ended up being repeated and semicolons semicolon and all subsequent characters were stripped from filename...
Potential attack vector using attachments
Suspicious handling of attachment uploads with filenames containing quotes the quoted ended up being repeated and semicolons semicolon and all subsequent characters were stripped from filename...
Microsoft Windows Movie Maker Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Description Microsoft Windows Movie Maker is prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. Failed exploit attempts will cause a denial-of-service condition. Technologies Affect...
Identifying Suspicious URLs
In the Google TechTalk, Justin Ma, a PhD candidate at UC San Diego, discusses a novel method for determining which URLs are malicious by applying large-scale online learning techniques...
JustSystems Ichitaro Font Information Processing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Description Ichitaro is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. Attackers may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the vulnerable application. Failed attempts will result in a denial-of-service condition. Ichitaro 2010 and prior versions are vulnerable...
Google to Issue GMail Suspicious Activity Warnings
Google has added a nifty new security feature to warn GMail users when there are suspicious log-ins to their e-mail accounts. The feature, now being rolled into Firefox and Internet Explorer, will flag GMail log-ins from multiple locations and flash the following warning to an affected user:...
Sybase SQL Anywhere Server Suspicious Command Detection
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