US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA09-204A -- Adobe Flash Vulnerability Affects Flash Player and Other Adobe Products

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 National Cyber Alert System Technical Cyber Security Alert TA09-204A Adobe Flash Vulnerability Affects Flash Player and Other Adobe Products Original release date: July 23, 2009 Last revised: -- Source: US-CERT Systems Affected Adobe Flash Player...

Wyse Rapport Hagent Fake Hserver - Command Execution (Metasploit)

$Id: hagentuntrustedhsdata.rb 10998 2010-11-11 22:43:22Z jduck $ This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use...

Wyse Rapport Hagent Fake Hserver Command Execution

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MyDoom DDoS Attacks Likely Work of Unsophisticated Attackers

The ongoing DDoS attacks that have been targeting a series of U.S. government sites as well as some commercial sites is likely not the work of any government organization and is being executed by an old piece of malware that is designed to ruin files on infected PCs rather than steal data, expert...

US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA09-187A -- Microsoft Video ActiveX Control Vulnerability

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 National Cyber Alert System Technical Cyber Security Alert TA09-187A Microsoft Video ActiveX Control Vulnerability Original release date: July 06, 2009 Last revised: -- Source: US-CERT Systems Affected Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows Server 200...

CVE-2009-2276

SQL injection vulnerability in voteforus.php in the Vote For Us extension 1.0.1 and earlier for PunBB allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the out parameter...

CVE-2009-2276: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command

SQL injection vulnerability in voteforus.php in the Vote For Us extension 1.0.1 and earlier for PunBB allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the out parameter...

Hackers Pounce on Michael Jackson's Death

As night follows day, malicious hackers are following high-profile news around celebrity deaths to launch attacks. According to a warning from the U.S. Computer Emergency Response team, there are several spam campaigns, phishing attacks, and malicious code targeting the recent deaths of Michael...

Debian DSA-1807-1 : cyrus-sasl2, cyrus-sasl2-heimdal - buffer overflow

"James Ralston discovered that the saslencode64 function of cyrus-sasl2, a free library implementing the Simple Authentication and Security Layer, suffers from a missing null termination in certain situations. This causes several buffer overflows in situations where cyrus-sasl2 itself requires th...

FBI, US Marshals hit by mystery malware

From the Associated Press Law enforcement computers were struck by a Mystery computer virus Thursday, forcing the FBI and the U.S. Marshals to shut down part of their networks as a precaution. The U.S. Marshals confirmed it disconnected from the Justice Department’s computers as a protective...

Counterpoint: The need for a cybersecurity czar is real

As everyone prepares to examine the results of the Obama Administration’s cyber-security review, one of the largest issues in play remains to what extent the White House will embrace recommendations to create a Cabinet-level position to address the matter or some role superior to today’s “cyber...

CVE-2008-6798

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in login.php in Pre Projects Pre Real Estate Listings allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via 1 the us parameter aka the Username field or 2 the ps parameter aka the Password field...

CVE-2008-6798: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in login.php in Pre Projects Pre Real Estate Listings allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via 1 the us parameter aka the Username field or 2 the ps parameter aka the Password field...

ntp -- stack-based buffer overflow

US-CERT reports: ntpd contains a stack buffer overflow which may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system or create a denial of service...

Health scares can provide lessons for security

The swine flu outbreak has inspired a flood of comparisons and false analogies to Conficker and other worms, most of which miss the many key differences between the Internet infrastructure and the human population. But there are lessons that security personnel can learn from the ways that health...

Beware of Swine Flu phishing, e-mail scams

Security researchers are starting to sound the alarm avertlabs.com for e-mail scams related to news stories on the Swine Flu. According to a notice from US-CERT, the attacks arrive via an unsolicited email message typically containing a subject line related to the Swine Flu. These email messages...

Dranzer: Fuzzing for ActiveX vulnerabilities

The United States Computer Emergency Response Team US-CERT has released a new ActiveX fuzzer to help developers pinpoint browser-based security vulnerabilities. The tool, called Dranzer, lets software developers test ActiveX controls for vulnerabilities before the software is released to the...

Blackberry plugs code execution holes

From The H Security Research In Motion have published an advisory blackberry.com to warn of another vulnerability in the PDF distiller of the BlackBerry Attachment service. This new vulnerability is in addition to previous issues with the PDF distiller service. According to US-CERT, the issue is...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at gaming4.us

Security researcher fLP, has submitted on 15/04/2009 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting gaming4.us, which at the time of submission ranked 9270097 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 18/12/2011. It is currently...

cyrus-sasl -- buffer overflow vulnerability

US-CERT reports: The saslencode64 function converts a string into base64. The Cyrus SASL library contains buffer overflows that occur because of unsafe use of the saslencode64 function...