Microsoft Releases Version 2.1 of EMET Mitigation Toolkit

Microsoft has released a new version of its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit, a free download that gives IT staffs the ability to better defend against exploit attempts. The EMET now includes support, as well. EMET is a toolkit that essentially is designed to add exploit mitigation...

Report: Google May Face $500m Fine Over Rogue Pharma Ads

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that search giant Google is close to reaching a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over an investigation of the company’s policy of running ads from online pharmacies that operate outside U.S. borders and in violation of U.S. law. Google has not made ...

Preview : Web App Hacker's Handbook 2nd Edition !

Preview : Web App Hacker's Handbook 2nd Edition ! The first draft of the new edition of WAHH is now completed, and the lengthy editing and production process is underway. Just to whet everyone's appetite, I'm posting below an exclusive extract from the Introduction, describing what has changed in...

Audit Finds FBI Doing a Poor Job with Cyber Investigations

A U.S. Department of Justice audit of the FBI’s ability to investigate cyber intrusions concluded that the agency is not doing an adequate job. The audit, which reviewed 36 field agents in 10 FBI offices across the country found that the agency’s cyber investigations are hampered by difficulties...

Researchers Propose New Steganography System for Hiding Data

A group of researchers has developed a new application that can hide sensitive data on a hard drive without encrypting it or leaving any obvious signs that the data is present. The new steganography system relies on the old principle of hiding valuables in plain sight. Developed by a group of...

Mozilla Firefox Crash Handler

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Hackers Exploit BlackBerry Browser Bug !

Research in Motion has found a security flaw and recommended that user disable JavaScript in browsers on certain phones, threatening the BlackBerry maker's iron-clad reputation for security. "The issue could result in remote code execution on affected BlackBerry smartphones," the Waterloo,...

Expert: Malicious Mobile App Fears Overblown

“It’s the code, stupid!” At least that’s what application security expert Andy Chou observes about go-go world of mobile devices. In this interview with Threatpost’s Paul Roberts, recorded at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, Chou said that mobile device software vendors face many of...

Reverse Engineering of Proprietary Protocols, Tools and Techniques !

Reverse Engineering of Proprietary Protocols, Tools and Techniques ! This talk is about reverse engineering a proprietary network protocol, and then creating my own implementation. The talk will cover the tools used to take binary data apart, capture the data, and techniques I use for decoding...

Security Event : Recon 2011 Conference !

Security Event : Recon 2011 Conference ! WHAT RECON is a computer security conference held annually in Montreal, Canada. It offers a single track of presentations over the span of three days with a focus on reverse engineering and advanced exploitation techniques. The registration fee includes an...

Stonesoft Claims To Find More Evasion Techniques in Security Products

Four months after it first went public with a warning about widespread vulnerabilities in network security products, Stonesoft said it has found more than 100 new holes, and that security vendors are doing little to address the problem. The company on Monday announced that it has submitted...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Podcast Generator

High-Tech Bridge SA Security Research Lab has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Podcast Generator which could be exploited to perform cross-site scripting attacks, disclose potentially sensitive information and compromise vulnerable system. 1 Cross-site scripting vulnerability in Podcast...

Metasploit 3.5.1 adds Cisco device exploitation !

Metasploit now enables security professionals to exploit Cisco devices, performs passive reconnaissance through traffic analysis, provides more exploits and evaluates an organization's password security by brute forcing an ever increasing range of services. This latest release adds stealth...

Check Point's Response to Stonesoft's "Advanced Evasion Techniques" (CVE-2010-0102)

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Who are PakBugs Hackers ? Introduction Report by The Hacker News

Report "Who are PakBugs Hackers" by THE HACKER NEWS 1 Jawad Ehsan, nickname - Humza, still at large in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Jawad uses codename ZombiEKsa, and is the founder of PakBugs and probably the most famous of all the PakBugs hackers. An Article already posted on him at CBI was actually...

Hacker Poses as Graduate, Hacks Student Emails, Faces Legal Consequences

A hacker who posed as a university graduate to access the emails of hundreds of students has been given a suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay more than £20,000 in costs and compensation. Daniel Woo, a 23-year-old Bulgarian national, was sentenced for offenses under the Misuse of Computer...

Front Accounting 2.3RC2 Multiple Persistent XSS Vulnerabilities

Exploit for php platform in category web applications =============================================================== Front Accounting 2.3RC2 Multiple Persistent XSS Vulnerabilities =============================================================== Affected Applications: Front Accounting v2.3RC2;...

Researchers To Debut Botnet-Resistant Coding Techniques

As the botnet epidemic continues to rage, researchers are expanding the scope of their search for new methods to prevent users from becoming unwitting victims of these massive malicious networks. One pair of researchers this week will unveil a new technique they’ve developed to help Web sites...

MS10-090 Microsoft Internet Explorer CSS SetUserClip Memory Corruption

This module exploits a memory corruption vulnerability within Microsoft's HTML engine mshtml. When parsing an HTML page containing a specially crafted CSS tag, memory corruption occurs that can lead arbitrary code execution. It seems like Microsoft code inadvertently increments a vtable pointer t...

The Shellcoder's Handbook : 1st & 2nd Edition Download

Shellcoder's Programming Uncovered Kris Kaspersky ISBN-10: 193176946X Product Description How hackers, viruses, and worms attack computers from the Internet and exploit security holes in software is explained in this outline of antivirus software, patches, and firewalls that try in vain to...