Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Firefox 3.0.9 fixes several security issues found in Firefox 3.0.8:
Firefox allows Refresh header to redirect to javascript: URIs
POST data sent to wrong site when saving web page with embedded frame
Malicious search plugins can inject code into arbitrary sites
Same-origin violations in XMLHttpRequest and XPCNativeWrapper.toString
XSS hazard using third-party stylesheets and XBL bindings
Same-origin violations ...
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Saturday, April 18th, 2009
Security researchers are warning administrators to secure their servers in the wake of new Secure Shell (SSH) attacks.
Researchers at security firm SANS warned that so-called 'brute force' attacks were occurring on a "daily" basis. The attacks attempt to guess usernames and passwords in an attempt to compromise the server.
To help ...
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Kernel rootkits are tough enough to detect, but now a researcher has demonstrated an even sneakier method of hacking Linux.
The attack attack exploits an oft-forgotten function in Linux versions 2.4 and above in order to quietly insert a rootkit into the operating system kernel as a way to hide malware ...
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Autohack your targets with least possible interaction.
Features :
- Contains already custom-compiled executables of famous and effective exploits alongwith a few original exploits.
- No need to debug, script or compile the source codes.
- Scans all ports 1 - 65535 after taking the IP address and tries all possible exploits according to ...
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
As promised, the paper and the proof of concept code has just been posted on the ITL website here.
A quote from the paper:
In this paper we have described practical exploitation of the CPU cache poisoning in order to read or write into (otherwise protected) SMRAM memory. We have implemented two ...
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