Radmin Default Installation Security Vulnerabilities

Monday, June 30th, 2008

"By default, Radmin uses a known port, TCP port 4899 for remote access. In addition, if you are using password authentication only, a remote user only has to find an open TCP port 4899 and guess one word: your password.Suggestions:It is very easy to implement any or all of the ...

Many weak web server certificates threaten online shopping

Monday, June 30th, 2008

"https connections exist to help ensure that when somebody is engaged in a financial transaction over the internet they are actually connected to the correct site - such as a bank, online vendor, and so forth. However, due to an error in the OpenSSL library used by the Debian Linux ...

Spybot Search & Destroy 1.6 RC1

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behavior to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If ...

Taming Internet Explorer Browser Plug-Ins

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Security Fix has often lamented the lack of decent point-and-click software tools to help Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser users kill insecure "ActiveX controls," plug-ins for IE that have traditionally been among the biggest avenues of attack from spyware and adware. That's why I'm pleased to call attention to a ...

Hacker Launches Botnet Attack via P2P Software

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

A 19-year-old hacker is agreeing to plead guilty to masterminding a botnet to obtain thousands of victims' personal data in an anonymous scheme a federal cybercrime official described Friday as the nation's first such attack in which peer-to-peer software was the "infection point."The defendant, Jason Michael Milmont, launched the assault ...