JVN#51769987: Yahoo! Toolbar (for Chrome, Safari) vulnerable to toolbar alteration

Yahoo! Toolbar for Chrome, Safari contains a vulnerability where the toolbar may be altered when visiting a specially crafted web page. Impact A remote attacker may alter the toolbar. As a result, keywords entered in the toolbar may be leaked to a third party. Solution Update the software Update ...

Study: SQL Attacks Jump 69 Percent In Recent Months

The number of SQL attacks jumped by nearly two thirds earlier this year according to cloud hosting firm FireHost who recorded over 450,000 blocked SQL injection attacks between the first and second quarter this year. According to a report in ComputerWeekly, the firm claimed this week that it...

CVE-2012-2645

The Yahoo! Japan Yahoo! Browser application 1.2.0 and earlier for Android does not properly implement the WebView class, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application...

Authentication flaw

The Yahoo! Japan Yahoo! Browser application 1.2.0 and earlier for Android does not properly implement the WebView class, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application...

CVE-2012-2645

The Yahoo! Japan Yahoo! Browser application 1.2.0 and earlier for Android does not properly implement the WebView class, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application...

CVE-2012-2645

CVE-2012-2645 affects Yahoo! Japan Yahoo! Browser for Android (up to 1.2.0; 1.2.1 also listed) where the WebView implementation is faulty, allowing a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information via a crafted Android application. The vulnerability enables information disclosure without user in...

Traffic Sniffing, Not Botnet, May Have Led to Android Spam Run

It’s not every day that you get a security story that involves Yahoo, Google and Microsoft, but that’s what has happened with the claims from a Microsoft official that there was an Android-based botnet in existence sending spam from compromised devices. Now it seems that the spam emanating from...

CVE-2011-4279

Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.2 does not use the forceloginforprofiles setting for course-profiles access control, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information via vectors involving use of a search engine, as demonstrated by the search functionality of Google,...

Code injection

Moodle 2.0.x before 2.0.2 does not use the forceloginforprofiles setting for course-profiles access control, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information via vectors involving use of a search engine, as demonstrated by the search functionality of Google,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: pidgin-2.10.5-1.fc16

Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just...

Yahoo Patches Vulnerability that Led to 450,000-Password Breach

Yahoo announced today it’s fixed the security hole that allowed a hacker group this week to post some 450,000 email addresses and passwords belonging to freelance writers. “We have taken swift action and have now fixed this vulnerability, deployed additional security measures for affected Yahoo!...

Yahoo! Browser vulnerable in the WebView class

Overview Yahoo! Browser contains a vulnerability in the WebView class. Yahoo! Browser is a web browser for Android devices. Yahoo! Browser contains a vulnerability in the WebView class. Gaku Mochizuki of Mitsui Bussan Secure Directions, Inc. reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinat...

JVN#46088915: Yahoo! Browser vulnerable in the WebView class

Yahoo! Browser is a web browser for Android devices. Yahoo! Browser contains a vulnerability in the WebView class. Impact If a user of the affected product uses other malicious Android application, information managed by the affected product may be disclosed. Solution Update the software Update t...

Yahoo Voice hacked, 400,000 yahoo passwords leaked

A list of over 450,000 email addresses and plain-text passwords, in a document marked "Owned and Exposed" apparently from users of a Yahoo! service, is in circulation on the internet. The affected accounts appeared to belong to a voice-over-Internet-protocol, or VOIP, service called Yahoo Voices,...

Yahoo Looking Into Password Breach

If it’s a day ending in Y, then there must be another password leak. And today it’s Yahoo’s turn in the spotlight, as the company is investigating claims that more than 400,000 plaintext passwords were stolen from the company and posted online. Security researchers who have looked at the data say...

Google Disputes Claim of Android Botnet

Google is disputing statements from researchers at Microsoft and Sophos who this week warned that Android devices were sending spam through compromised Yahoo Mail accounts. In response, both now say they are further investigating their earlier claims. The idea of an international Android botnet...

Senate Committee to Discuss Do Not Track at Key Hearing

The dram surrounding the Do Not Track specification and its implementation by browser manufacturers is set to continue on Thursday when the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing to discuss whether the proposed specification is strong enough or has been weakened by the digital advertising...

Fedora Update for pidgin FEDORA-2012-8686

Check for the Version of pidgin OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for pidgin FEDORA-2012-8686 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the term...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: pidgin-2.10.4-1.fc15

Pidgin allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, Jabber, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, IRC, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, Simple and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just...

RedHat Update for pidgin RHSA-2011:0616-01

Check for the Version of pidgin OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for pidgin RHSA-2011:0616-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...