Miley Cyrus Needs A Lecture on Cyber Security

Miley Cyrus Needs A Lecture on Cyber Security The man, who is currently facing up to 121 years behind bars, has been charged with 26 counts of identity theft, wire-tapping and unauthorised access to protected computer.Chaney, who has been in contact with TMZ for the last two years, has contacted...

Morto Worm Continues to Squirm, Windows 7 Infections Reported

The Morto worm that began compromising machines via open RDP services this past weekend is continuing its work, going after workstations and servers and creating large amounts of network traffic from TCP port 3389. The main attack vector that Morto uses is a large-scale scan for remote machines...

John the Ripper 1.7.7 new version Released !

John the Ripper 1.7.7 new version Released ! "John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. It supports several crypt3 password hash types commonly found on Unix...

Lessons to learn from the HBGary Federal hack !

The Anonymous attack on HBGary may have amused some who enjoyed the sight of a security firm left embarrassed and exposed, but it should send a shiver down the spine of any IT administrator responsible for securing their own company. Because can you honestly put your hand on your heart and say a...

CVE-2010-4302

/opt/rv/Versions/CurrentVersion/Mcu/Config/Mcu.val in Cisco Unified Videoconferencing UVC System 5110 and 5115, when the Linux operating system is used, uses a weak hashing algorithm for the 1 administrator and 2 operator passwords, which makes it easier for local users to obtain sensitive...

How to Avoid Getting Your Twitter Account Hacked

“All upcoming Guns N’ Roses dates are officially canceled. Please contact your place of purchase for any refunds.” No Guns N’ Roses fan ever wants to see this text. And especially when it’s published on Axl Rose’s official Twitter account, it’s a guaranteed recipe for disaster. This is not the...

SOL11719 - Mitigating risk from SSH brute force login attacks

Vulnerability Description F5 products and versions that are affected by this Security Advisory F5 Product Development has determined that all products and versions are affected by the issue described in this security advisory. Note: For information about signing up to receive security notice...

1 4 3 3 weak passwords the use of shift functions smartly provide the right-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

This is the third hair about 1 4 3 3 weak password tutorial, the previous two tutorials also for 1 4 3 3 the repair and provide the right for a detailed explanation, today still give us a 1 4 3 3 weak passwords to mention the right methods. That is clever, in fact, many large cattle have long bee...

CVE-2008-1507

PEEL, possibly versions 3.x and earlier, contains default credentials: [email protected] with password admin and [email protected] with password cinema, which allows remote attackers to gain administrative access. This CVE (CVE-2008-1507) is documented with multiple sources (NVD, CVE List, PrIon, CVELIS...

Security Best Practice: Protection against CIFS Brute-Force Attacks

CIFS is an extension to the Message Block Server SMB protocol, a network protocol native to Windows systems which allows sharing of files and printers across a network. In recent years we have witnessed various worms attempting to compromise and spread through Windows machines with weak, default...

You see, you know of broiler production steps! - Vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

First step: scan for weak passwords Here I am with 20cn developed scanipc ! Soon it will sweep a lot of have weak passwords hostin my experience in the education online so the host more The second step: the connection just sweep the broiler Here I used opentelnet to scan to open the air command o...

Windows password weakness

Added: 12/19/2005 CVE: CVE-1999-0503 Background Passwords are the most commonly used method of authenticating users to a server. The combination of a login name and password is used to verify the identity of a user requesting access, and to determine what parts of the server the user has permissi...

Guest permissions break 8 law-vulnerability and early warning-the black bar safety net

Guest privilege escalation method summary: Now the invasion is more and more difficult, People's safety awareness have generally increased a lot, even the individual user to understand firewalls, antivirus software and to equipment in hand, for Microsoft's patch to upgrade also no longer is not...

FreeBSD : mailman -- generated passwords are poor quality (b3cd00f7-c0c5-452d-87bc-086c5635333e)

Florian Weimer wrote : Mailman 2.1.5 uses weak auto-generated passwords for new subscribers. These passwords are assigned when members subscribe without specifying their own password either by email or the web frontend. Knowledge of this password allows an attacker to gain access to the list...

Sun Solaris SMC (Solaris Management Console) weak passwords

Under certain conditions user accouint configured with password aging is created with empty password...

mailman -- generated passwords are poor quality

Florian Weimer wrote: Mailman 2.1.5 uses weak auto-generated passwords for new subscribers. These passwords are assigned when members subscribe without specifying their own password either by email or the web frontend. Knowledge of this password allows an attacker to gain access to the list archi...

Weak Okens Stormwatch password

Empty sa account password...

Multiple Mambo Site Server sec-weaknesses

=:=:=::=:=:=::=:=:=::=:=:=::=:=:=::=:=:=::=:=:=::= topic: Multiple Mambo Site Server sec-weaknesses product: Mambo Site Server 4.0.11 vendor: http://sourceforge.org/projects/mambo risk: high date: 12/12/2k2 discovered by: euronymous /F0KP /HACKRU Team advisory urls:...

OpenVMS weak passwords

Llimit character set, case insensitivity and fast encryption algorythm allow password bruteforcing...

Xerox DocuTech problems

I'm forwarding this for people who would like to remain anonymous. This case illustrates why software product vendors should be held legally and financially accountable for the security problems caused by their reckless and sometimes arrogant disregard of known problems. Xerox replied with a...