Microsoft Builds Legal Weapon to Take Apart Botnets

The take-down of the Rustock botnet in March gave Microsoft another head for its mantle: two in just the last year. That’s an impressive take for any private firm, and one of a string of actions against bot networks in recent years. But security experts say that the company’s success in building ...

Still Smarting, Anonymous Releases 20,000 More HBGary Emails

More e-mail messages believed to belong to HBGary Federal Chief Operating Officer Greg Hoglund were posted online Sunday, fulfilling a promise by online mischief making group Anonymous to further embarrass the Washington D.C. security firm, whose CEO aroused the ire of the hacktivists last week. ...

Yahoo! Announces Hack U™ Spring 2011 Series !

Yahoo! is proud to announce the Hack U™ Spring 2011 calendar of events. Join Yahoo! web experts for a week of learning, hacking and fun! You'll hear interesting tech talks, hacking tips and lessons, and get hands-on coding workshops where you'll work with cutting-edge technology. The week's event...

Students will analysis cyber security skills vs. peers !

Flour Bluff Aerial Academy inferior Alex Blanke never accepted the accoutrement to abolish bacilli from his computer. But he capital to learn. Now he is on a mission to chase and abort computer bacilli and added aegis threats. He and green Sierra Alves represent Flour Bluff in a civic aerial...

Sign of the Times: Shmoocon Tickets Scalped on eBay

How do you know when your alt.hacking conference has arrived? Maybe when scalpers are offering tickets for the event on eBay for almost three times the face value. That’s the situation the organizers of hacking conference Shmoocon have found themselves in, as illicit auctions for tickets to next...

U.S. Adopts Military Tactics for Rising Cyberwar Threats

The increasing threats of cyberwar are keeping U.S. officials busy alongside ongoing wars on terror and drugs. Recent incidents highlight the rising cyberwarfare concerns: Google reported espionage attacks originating from China, mysterious Internet traffic activities related to China, the Stuxne...

WU-FTPD - Site EXEC/INDEX Format String (Metasploit)

$Id: wuftpdsiteexecformat.rb 11166 2010-11-30 00:16:53Z 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...

ShmooCon

Washington D.C., U.S. Go to Shmoo. Enjoy yourself at Shmoo. But for God’s sake, just don’t ask anyone at Shmoo who they work for. This D.C. based hacking con, now in its seventh year, is lousy with spooks and other assorted hackers in the employ of Uncle Sam. The show was started and took its nam...

Washington Courts website vulnerable to SQL injection and cross-site scripting

Overview The Washington Courts website http://www.courts.wa.gov/ is vulnerable to SQL injection and cross-site scripting. An attacker could gain access to information stored on the site or manipulate how the site appears to victims who browse to an attacker-supplied URL. Description The Washingto...

Wustl.edu Cross Site Scripting

============================= Washington University in St.Louis XSS Vulnerability ============================= + Discovered By: XroGuE @Title: Advisory www.wustl.edu XSS Vulnerability @Author: Ashiyane Digital Security Team @Mail: [email protected] @Site XSSed:...

UoW IMAPd Server - LSUB Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)

$Id: imapuwlsub.rb 8932 2010-03-26 19:00:23Z 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. http://metasploit.com/framework/...

Is the U.S. Unprepared for a Real Cyber Attack?

During the simulated cyber attack that took place yesterday in Washington and was recorded by the CNN, one thing became clear: the US are still not ready to deflect or mitigate such an attack to an extent that would not affect considerably the everyday life of its citizens. Read the full article...

Google Attack Was Tip of the Iceberg

The recent disclosure by Google, Adobe and other companies that their networks had been thoroughly compromised by attackers who may have been after their source code has prompted a tremendous amount of discourse both in the security community and in the general public about the political and...

Wu-ftpd SITE EXEC/INDEX Format String Vulnerability

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. http://metasploit.com/framework/ require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 'wu-ftpd SITE...

Mandriva Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:146-1 (imap)

The remote host is missing an update to imap announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:146-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: mdksa20091461.nasl 6573 2017-07-06 13:10:50Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory MDVSA-2009:146-1 imap Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2009 E-Soft...

Mandriva Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:146-1 (imap)

The remote host is missing an update to imap announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:146-1. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 E-Soft Inc. 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 OR...

WU-FTPD SITE EXEC/INDEX Format String Vulnerability

This module exploits a format string vulnerability in versions of the Washington University FTP server older than 2.6.1. By executing specially crafted SITE EXEC or SITE INDEX commands containing format specifiers, an attacker can corrupt memory and execute arbitrary code. This module requires...

Large-Scale Security Experiments Coming

A consortium of cybersecurity researchers from MIT, Purdue and Carnegie Mellon was announced in Washington D.C. with the stated goal is to collaborate on cybersecurity research including 10 projects, one which is the development of an Internet-scale model on which to perform constrained experimen...

Major D.C. Construction Co. Fooled by Phishing

Nigel Parkinson, president of Parkinson Construction who built the D.C Convention Center and Nationals baseball stadium, fell victim to phony SSN email site that stole passwords, including those to the company’s bank account where money mules were used to steal funds. Read the full article...

FDA Trying to Close Fake Prescription Sites

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is pressuring a number of Internet service providers to shut off nearly 12 dozen Web sites alleged to be selling counterfeit or unapproved prescription drugs. The agency said none of the sites represent pharmacies located in the United States or Canada, as mo...