Microsoft is sponsoring the Cyber Security Challenge UK

The global adoption of computing continues to draw attackers toward ever-richer targets. The latest data from the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report shows that although industry-wide vulnerability disclosures are down and computer defenses are improved, exploit activity has actually increased...

Warning ! Facebook virus Zeus targets bank accounts

The infamous Zeus malware has once again resurfaced as per Symantec and is capable of draining your bank accounts. Zeus propagates through phishing messages that originate from an account that has been phished. Such a phished account will then start automatically sending messages to friends with...

Warning ! Facebook virus Zeus targets bank accounts

The infamous Zeus malware has once again resurfaced as per Symantec and is capable of draining your bank accounts. Zeus propagates through phishing messages that originate from an account that has been phished. Such a phished account will then start automatically sending messages to friends with...

PayPal Cross Site Scripting

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UK banks hit by Ramnit banking malware and social engineering attacks

A dangerous variant of the Ramnit malware has been discovered targeting the UK's financial sector. Trusteer claims to have discovered an interesting trojan based attack technique that injects highly convincing and interactive real-time messages into the user Web stream that they encounter when...

UK banks hit by Ramnit banking malware and social engineering attacks

A dangerous variant of the Ramnit malware has been discovered targeting the UK's financial sector. Trusteer claims to have discovered an interesting trojan based attack technique that injects highly convincing and interactive real-time messages into the user Web stream that they encounter when...

Ramnit Man-in-the-Browser Attack Targets UK Banks

Nowhere is the cat-and-mouse game between attackers and the security of users more evident than with social engineering schemes. Users’ awareness of phishing campaigns, for example, may be improving, but that’s just forcing attackers bent on identity theft and stealing payment card information to...

'Magic' Espionage Malware Targets UK Computers

Thousands of U.K. business computers have been infected by espionage malware using a custom protocol to communicate with its command and control servers. Researchers at Israeli security company Seculert added that the malware is still percolating with a number of capabilities yet to be deployed...

Apple Adds Two-Factor Authentication to iTunes Accounts

Apple has introduced a new two-factor authentication system designed to help protect users’ iTunes and App Store accounts and prevent attackers or unauthorized users from taking over users’ accounts. The system is similar to the one that Google has implemented for Gmail, utilizing verification...

U.K. Internet service providers ordered to block three filesharing websites

The UK High Court has ordered BSkyB, BT, Virgin Media and three other UK broadband providers to block access to three music and movie file-sharing websites Kickass Torrents, H33T and Fenopy. Judge Richard Arnold said that these websites infringed 10 music companies copyrights on an industrial...

U.K. Internet service providers ordered to block three filesharing websites

The UK High Court has ordered BSkyB, BT, Virgin Media and three other UK broadband providers to block access to three music and movie file-sharing websites Kickass Torrents, H33T and Fenopy. Judge Richard Arnold said that these websites infringed 10 music companies copyrights on an industrial...

Sony Fined £250,000 By UK Over Failures in PlayStation Network Breach

Nearly two years after attackers began what turned out to be a long series of intrusions at Sony, most notably with the PlayStation Network data breach, authorities in the U.K. have fined the company the equivalent of almost $400,000 for not being careful enough with customer data. The Sony PSN...

Shylock banking malware spreads via Skype

The banking Trojan known as Shylock has been updated with new functionality, including the ability to spread over Skype. The program was discovered in 2011 that steals online banking credentials and other financial information from infected computers. Shylock, named after a character from...

Shylock banking malware spreads via Skype

The banking Trojan known as Shylock has been updated with new functionality, including the ability to spread over Skype. The program was discovered in 2011 that steals online banking credentials and other financial information from infected computers. Shylock, named after a character from...

Ask.com UK Cross Site Scripting

Exploit Title: ASK UK XSS Date: 11.03.2013 Author: TayfunBasoglu Tested: BackTrack 5 Platform: asp ------------------------------------------------------------------...

Under the hood of recent DDoS Attack on U.S. Banks

Incapsula security study reveals how a simple neglect in managing the administrative password of a small UK site was quickly exploited by Botnet shepherds operating obscurely out of Turkey to hurl large amounts of traffic at American banks. If you've been following the news, you are probably awar...

Narilam malware target Iran Financial SQL Databases

Symantec recently identified a database-corrupting piece of malware targeting systems mostly in Iran, but despite early speculation that it could be related to the likes of Stuxnet and Flame, it appears to be targeting small businesses rather than the country's infrastructure. Malware Dubbed...

Cross site scripting

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Uk Cookie aka uk-cookie plugin for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2012-5856

The CVE-2012-5856 entry concerns the WordPress uk-cookie plugin (uk-cookie) and is a Cross‑Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. The vulnerability is described as a reflective XSS issue that allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary script/HTML via unspecified vectors in the plugin. Several conne...

CVE-2012-5856: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Uk Cookie aka uk-cookie plugin for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors...