Image of the Day: Mapping E-banking Fraud

We spend our days combing the ‘Net for interesting security happenings and also noting the great work that other reporters and researchers are doing on the security front. Usually that means traditional reporting work: pulling together information from a bunch of different sources, digging for...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in HP Insight Control Performance Management before 6.2 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims via unknown vectors...

CVE-2010-1767

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in loader/DocumentThreadableLoader.cpp in WebCore in WebKit before r57041, as used in Google Chrome before 4.1.249.1059, allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims via a crafted synchronous preflight XMLHttpRequest...

Cyber Crime Survey Finds Lots of Victims, Lots of Guilt

If you’ve fallen victim to a driveby download, phishing attack or virus laden PDF attachment, don’t despair: you’re in good company, according to a study sponsored by anti malware firm Symantec Corp. The anti virus software found that a whopping 73 percent of Internet users in the U.S. they...

Catholic Diocese Loses $600K to Online Thieves

Organized cyber thieves stole more than $600,000 from the Catholic Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa earlier this month with the help of dozens of unwitting co-conspirators hired through work-at-home job scams, at least one of whom was told the money was being distributed to victims of the Catholic...

CVE-2010-1971

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in HP Insight Software Installer for Windows before 6.1 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-1968...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

Multiple cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerabilities in Mahara before 1.0.15, 1.1.x before 1.1.9, and 1.2.x before 1.2.5 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims via unknown vectors...

CVE-2010-1668

Multiple cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerabilities in Mahara before 1.0.15, 1.1.x before 1.1.9, and 1.2.x before 1.2.5 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims via unknown vectors...

Automating Social Engineering in MiTM Attacks

French researchers have developed an automated social engineering tool that uses a man-in-the middle attack and strikes up online conversations with potential victims. Read the full article. Dark Reading...

Fedora Update for sahana FEDORA-2010-6379

Check for the Version of sahana OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for sahana FEDORA-2010-6379 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the term...

CVE-2010-1037

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in HP System Insight Manager before 6.0 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims via unknown vectors...

Card Skimming Hits Up to 180 Gas Pumps

Criminals hid bank card-skimming devices inside gas pumps — in at least one case, even completely replacing the front panel of a pump — in a recent wave of attacks that demonstrate a more sophisticated, insidious method of stealing money from unsuspecting victims filling up their gas tanks. Read...

The Unemployed Are Key to Online Job Scams

Even though online job scams have become more convincing as criminals have honed their skills, sometimes victims don’t fall for them – they jump into them. Read the full article. SFGate...

webMathematica XSS Vulnerability

No description provided by source. In some installations, the MSP script of webMathematica is vulnerable to reflected XSS. Just insert a backslash after the script name MSP, which is normally located under the "webMathematica" folder: http://www.example.com/webMathematica/MSP\scriptalert'a'/scrip...

CVE-2009-4297

Multiple cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerabilities in Moodle 1.8 before 1.8.11 and 1.9 before 1.9.7 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims via unknown vectors...

CVE-2009-1757

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in Transmission 1.5 before 1.53 and 1.6 before 1.61 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims via unknown vectors...

Old phishing sites still sending spam, attracting victims

The cooperative effort of ISPs, security vendors, volunteer groups and other interested parties has helped develop a quick and efficient method for taking down phishing sites, usually within hours or days of their appearance. However, many phishing sites that have been up for a week or more still...

[DR018] Quartz Composer / QuickTime 7 information leakage

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The canonical URI of this advisory is http://remahl.se/david/vuln/ 018/. This advisory concerns an as-yet unpatched problem in QuickTime 7 on Mac OS X 10.4. The reason for disclosure before a vendor patch is that another person realized the potential...