Japanese Android developers arrested for infecting 10 million users

Japanese police arrested five mobile applications developers for creating and embedding a virus into smartphone applications. According to The Metropolitan Police Department, Intial reports said that about 90,000 smartphones users were infected with a virus lurking in applications they downloaded...

Malware making bomb and death threats detected

Japanese police had arrested three people, accused them of making death threats via email and discussion forums. However, later Researchers at Symantec have determined that a piece of malware was making death and bomb threats online on behalf of its victims infected. Symantec confirmed that the...

Virus threat hit Israeli Foreign Ministry computers

A number of Israel's government offices have fallen victim to a cyber attack over the past week, one apparently aimed at slipping a "Trojan horse" into the computer servers at these ministries. Israeli police immediately pulled the national computer network from the civilian Internet after this...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Changelog Email Messages on September 11, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 27244 First Published: 2012 October 19 18:19 GMT Last Updated: 2014 September 12 13:05 GMT Version: 5 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a changelog for the recipient. The text in the email message attempt...

Fake Lookout android app stealing your SMS and MMS messages

Android's App store is currently facing a new dilemma as its security has been compromised once again. Researchers from security firm TrustGo have recently spotted on Google Play a bogus app that supposedly automatizes the updating of a batch of other apps. The malicious code was hidden within an...

HackerProof : Your Guide To PC Security

With over 140,000 known computer viruses and 85,000,000 spam emails sent out each day, the likelihood of your PC coming into contact with malware such as viruses, worms, and spyware is almost guaranteed. It is very important to secure your computer just like you would secure your house or car. Yo...

US authorities : Iranian Hackers are Becoming a Real Pain

The U.S. have admitted they believe a series of cyber attacks on domestic banks and some foreign oil companies carried out over the last year are the handy work of a group of hackers linked to the Iranian government. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said the cyberthreat from Iran has grown, and...

MS12-070: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2012 QFE: October 9, 2012

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Cross site scripting

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall 600 Firmware 4.0.1.009 and earlier allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via 1 Troubleshooting in the Trace route Device module or 2 LDAP Username in the LDAP Configuration modul...

CVE-2012-5316

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall 600 Firmware 4.0.1.009 and earlier allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via 1 Troubleshooting in the Trace route Device module or 2 LDAP Username in the LDAP Configuration modul...

CVE-2012-5316

CVE-2012-5316 affects Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall 600 firmware up to 4.0.1.009. The issue is cross-site scripting (XSS) in two components: (1) Troubleshooting → Trace route Device module and (2) LDAP Configuration → LDAP Username. Triggered by authenticated remote users, it allows injection o...

Symantec Messaging Gateway Default SSH Password

Added: 10/02/2012 CVE: CVE-2012-3579 BID: 55143 OSVDB: 85028 Background Symantec Messaging Gateway is an email virus protection appliance that also provides antispam protection. Problem Symantec Messaging Gateway versions before 10.0 have a default password for the "support" account, which can be...

AVG Anti-Virus 'hcp://' Protocol Handler Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

The host is installed with AVG Anti-Virus and is prone to remote code execution vulnerability. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbavgantivirusremotecodeexecvuln.nasl 5956 2017-04-14 09:02:12Z teissa $ AVG Anti-Virus 'hcp://' Protocol Handler Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Authors: Madhuri D...

AVG Anti-Virus 'hcp://' Protocol Handler RCE Vulnerability

AVG Anti-Virus is prone to a remote code execution RCE vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

Portable Multi-boot Security Suite: Katana

Katana is a portable multi-boot security suite which brings together many of today’s best security distributions and portable applications to run off a single Flash Drive. It includes distributions which focus on Pen-Testing, Auditing, Forensics, System Recovery, Network Analysis, and Malware...

CVE-2012-4014

Unspecified vulnerability in McAfee Email Anti-virus formerly WebShield SMTP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unknown vectors...

Design/Logic Flaw

Unspecified vulnerability in McAfee Email Anti-virus formerly WebShield SMTP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unknown vectors...

CVE-2012-4014

Unspecified vulnerability in McAfee Email Anti-virus formerly WebShield SMTP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unknown vectors...

CVE-2012-4014

CVE-2012-4014 affects McAfee Email Anti-virus (formerly WebShield SMTP). The vulnerability enables remote denial of service via unspecified vectors; impact is DoS as described by multiple sources. Public details are consistent across NVD, Red Hat, JVN entries, and CVE listings. Remediation is not...

SquidClamav: Denial of service

Background SquidClamav is a HTTP anti-virus for Squid based on ClamAV and ICAP. Description SquidClamav does not properly escape URLs before passing them to the system command call. Impact A remote attacker could send a specially crafted URL to SquidClamav, possibly resulting in a Denial of Servi...