Sql injection

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in the advanced search in Wikidforum 2.10 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the 1 selectsort or 2 optsearchselect parameters. NOTE: this issue could not be reproduced by third parties...

Google Chrome blocks access to Twitpic for Malware risk

Suddenly today Google Chrome start detecting Twitpic.com as malware threat. Twitpic is one of the most popular website for Sharing photos and videos on Twitter. Twitpic denies and said that there is no malware on the website and is trying to contact Google. We also notice that, Twitter profiles a...

EFF Raises Questions on Privacy Leaks in Ubuntu

The EFF is warning users of Ubuntu’s latest release that the open-source operating system sends their search queries to third parties, including Amazon, by default, and that some of their search results may be viewable by other users on the same network. The privacy leaks are present in Ubuntu...

Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu on Flashback and Mac Security

Dennis Fisher talks with Ryan Naraine and Costin Raiu about the Flashback Mac botnet, why Apple is reluctant to let third parties update software on Macs and the future outlook for the security of Macs. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on...

Facebook down for two hours across Europe, May be DDOS attack !

Facebook down for two hours across Europe, May be DDOS attack ! In a DDoS attack, hackers deliberately render servers inaccessible by overloading them with traffic. Such a barrage aimed at DNS servers can make it impossible to connect users to a website when they type the address. Where as facebo...

Carrier IQ Controversy Spawns Lawsuits

The ongoing controversy about Carrier IQ’s software has now entered the courts. Mobile phone users around the country have filed a number of lawsuits in response to allegations that Carrier IQ’s software tracks consumers illegally. Among these suits is a class action filed in California against...

California Approves Data Security Rules for Smart Meters

The state of California has approved new rules to protect the data stored on so-called “smart meters,” in an effort to protect customer consumption data as household utilities are wired and connected to an IP-enabled “smart grid.” The California Public Utilities Commission CPUC, which regulates...

Targeted Advertisements (Get Used To Them)

Nobody likes to think that their actions, interests and expressions on a fun, social network like Google+ might be somehow diverted into the database of some giant advertising firm and used to push them products. But, when you get right down to it, that’s how Google makes money. Rather than stick...

Forget Epsilon, Fear the Angry Bird

No doubt you read about the huge email security breach Epsilon announced earlier this month. You may have received letters from companies that use Epsilon services about the possible loss of your email information. A lot of people are justifiably concerned that spear phishing and other nefarious...

Fuzzing tool discovers over 100 vulnerabilities in popular browsers !

The public release of crossfuzz - a cross-document DOM binding fuzzer that is able to detect vulnerabilities in all browsers by examining how they interact with various elements while they render web pages - by the Google-employed security researcher Michal Zalewski has unveiled some worrying...

Popular Facebook Games Exposing User Data to Third Parties

Facebook privacy has been a recurring topic in the news. With the massive number of users on the site, the amount of personal data involved is enormous. Recently, it has been revealed that many popular third-party apps, mainly games like Farmville and Texas HoldEm Poker, are leaking the unique...

Microsoft Shifts to 'Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure' Policy

Microsoft is changing the way in which it handles vulnerability disclosures, now moving to a model it calls coordinated vulnerability disclosure, in which the researcher and the vendor work together to verify a vulnerability and allow ample time for a patch. However, the new philosophy also...

New Study Sees Need for Better Software Integrity Controls

Software security has become one of the more widely discussed and debated topics in the security industry in the last few years, as many software vendors and enterprises both large and small have begun to to focus considerable attention on improving the processes they have in place for producing...

jQuery Validate 1.6.0 Demo Code Advisory

+----------------------------------------------+ ADVISORY – jQuery Validate 1.6.0 Demo Code AFFECTED PACKAGES jQuery Validate 1.6.0 SilverStripe 2.3.X to 2.3.5 Discovered By CodeScan.com +----------------------------------------------+ Vendor's Website:...

Report warns of 'web bugs' and privacy violations

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Information has released a report showing that the most popular Web sites in the United States all share data with their corporate affiliates and allow third parties to collect information directly by using tracking beacons known a...

Two XSS on Blue Coat ProxySG Management Console

PR07-29: Two XSS on Blue Coat ProxySG Management Console Vulnerability found: 23 July 2007 Vendor informed: 20 August 2007 Vulnerability fixed: 29 October 2007 Advisory publicly released: 1 November 2007 Severity: Medium Description: Blue Coat SG400 is vulnerable to a couple of XSS holes...

Design/Logic Flaw

GNU screen 4.0.3 allows local users to unlock the screen via a CTRL-C sequence at the password prompt. NOTE: multiple third parties report inability to reproduce this issue...

CVE-2007-3048

GNU screen 4.0.3 allows local users to unlock the screen via a CTRL-C sequence at the password prompt. NOTE: multiple third parties report inability to reproduce this issue...

Remote file inclusion

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in phpMyChat.php3 in phpMyChat 0.14.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the ChatPath parameter. NOTE: this has been disputed by multiple third parties and CVE because $ChatPath is set to a constant value...

Remote file inclusion

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in install.php in CS-Cart 1.3.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the installdir parameter. NOTE: CVE and third parties dispute this vulnerability because installdir is defined before use...