Attackers taking advantage of Epsilon !

We blogged about the Epsilon data breach to give our customers a heads-up on the situation. Recently, our ThreatSeeker® Network discovered a Web attack that takes advantage of the unfortunate news. As with anything our ThreatSeeker Network discovers, Websense customers are protected by ACE, our...

CVE-2011-0107

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP3, and Office 2007 SP2 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .docx file, aka "Office Component Insecure Library...

CVE-2011-0107

CVE-2011-0107 affects Microsoft Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP3, and Office 2007 SP2 through an insecure library loading vulnerability (Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, e.g., via a .docx file) that can grant local privileges. The issue is an untrusted search path loading flaw wit...

WordPress Spellchecker Local File Inclusion / Remote File Inclusion

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ======++++++ RFI & LFI Wordpress Spellchecker Plugin Vulnerability ++++++====== +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++...

The Hartford, Hacked

Hackers reportedly broke into and installed password-stealing programs on a number of servers belonging to insurance giant The Hartford, according to a ComputerWorld report. The 200-year-old, 28,000 employee strong company sent a letter of warning to some 300 employees, contractors and a small...

Windows Servers Hacked at The Hartford Insurance Company !

Hackers have broken into The Hartford insurance company and installed password-stealing programs on several of the company's Windows servers. In a warning letter sent last month to about 300 employees, contractors, and a handful of customers, the company said it discovered the infection in late...

New Chinese MBR Rootkit Identified

A new rootkit that uses the master boot record MBR to hide itself has been discovered in China and is being used to install an online game password stealer. The bootkit is installed on the computer by a trojan downloader distributed from a Chinese adult site and is detected by Kaspersky as...

Virus Watch: The Chinese Bootkit

We recently discovered a new bootkit, i.e. a malicious program which infects the hard drive’s boot sector. Kaspersky Lab detects it as Rookit.Win32.Fisp.a. The bootkit is distributed by Trojan-Downloader.NSIS.Agent.jd. The Trojan infects the computers of users who try to download a video clip fro...

CVE-2011-1126

VMware vmrun, as used in VIX API 1.x before 1.10.3 and VMware Workstation 6.5.x and 7.x before 7.1.4 build 385536 on Linux, might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse shared library in an unspecified directory...

DEBIAN-CVE-2009-5064

ldd in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.13 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file linked with a modified loader that omits certain LDTRACELOADEDOBJECTS checks. NOTE: the GNU C Library vendor states "This is just nonsense. There are a gazillion...

CVE-2009-5064

ldd in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.13 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file linked with a modified loader that omits certain LDTRACELOADEDOBJECTS checks. NOTE: the GNU C Library vendor states "This is just nonsense. There are a gazillion...

CVE-2009-5064

ldd in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.13 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file linked with a modified loader that omits certain LDTRACELOADEDOBJECTS checks. NOTE: the GNU C Library vendor states "This is just nonsense. There are a gazillion...

CVE-2009-5064

ldd in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.13 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file linked with a modified loader that omits certain LDTRACELOADEDOBJECTS checks. NOTE: the GNU C Library vendor states "This is just nonsense. There are a gazillion...

CVE-2009-5064

ldd in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.13 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file linked with a modified loader that omits certain LDTRACELOADEDOBJECTS checks. NOTE: the GNU C Library vendor states "This is just nonsense. There are a gazillion...

CVE-2009-5064

ldd in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.13 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file linked with a modified loader that omits certain LDTRACELOADEDOBJECTS checks. NOTE: the GNU C Library vendor states "This is just nonsense. There are a gazillion...

CVE-2009-5064

ldd in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 2.13 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file linked with a modified loader that omits certain LDTRACELOADEDOBJECTS checks. NOTE: the GNU C Library vendor states "This is just nonsense. There are a gazillion...

CVE-2011-1205

Multiple buffer overflows in unspecified COM objects in Rational Common Licensing 7.0 through 7.1.1.4 in IBM Rational ClearCase 7.0.0.4 through 7.1.1.4, ClearQuest 7.0.0.4 through 7.1.1.4, and other products allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse HTML document in the My Computer...

Design/Logic Flaw

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the Locate on Disk feature in Google Picasa before 3.8 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file in the current working directory...

CVE-2011-0458

CVE-2011-0458 is a local privilege escalation in Google Picasa up to version 3.7 where the vulnerability stems from an untrusted search path in the Locate on Disk feature. An attacker could place a Trojan horse executable in the current working directory to gain privileges when Picasa loads libra...

Malicious Ads Serving Malware to Spotify Users

Users of free music streaming service, Spotify are reporting that they have been the victims of drive-by malware attacks according to a report from Netcraft. The attacks appear to be coming from third party advertisements which are displayed in the ad-supported version of Spotify’s software. By...