Saturday, February 21st, 2009
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords ...
Posted in Internet, Networking, Privacy, Security, Software | 1 Comment
Friday, February 20th, 2009
A critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 and earlier versions. This vulnerability would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. There are reports that this issue is being exploited.
Adobe is planning to release ...
Posted in Internet, Security, Software | 1 Comment
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Microsoft warned last week that it would be easy for cybercriminals to build new attacks using bugs it patched in the Internet Explorer browser; now that prediction has come true.
On Tuesday, security vendor Trend Micro said that it had spotted the first attack taking advantage of one of two flaws ...
Posted in Security, Windows | No Comments
Monday, February 16th, 2009
A posting on the Full Disclosure mailing list has revealed what the FreeBSD Security team call a semi-remote root exploit for the telnetd service in FreeBSD 7, and later. By default, this service is disabled.
To exploit the vulnerability, a maliciously crafted library must be placed on the victim system beforehand, ...
Posted in Coding, Linux, Security | No Comments
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Google has discovered a vulnerability in its Chrome web browser that can allow an attacker to execute his own commands on a vulnerable Windows system. The vulnerability requires that the victim has previously installed Chrome, but is visiting a rigged web page using another browser, such as Internet Explorer.
According to ...
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