Monday, April 28th, 2008
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, bypass certain security restrictions, and to compromise a vulnerable system.
1) A vulnerability is caused due to improper access restriction of the administration section. This can be exploited to bypass the authentication ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
How can an attacker exploit a PL/SQL procedure that doesn’t even take user input? Or how does one do SQL injection using DATE or even NUMBER data types? In the past this has not been possible but as this paper will demonstrate, with a little bit of trickery, you can ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
WordPress 2.5.1 came out recently. It includes a critical security fix for a cookie integrity bug that would allow an attacker to impersonate other users, including WordPress admins, by manipulating the contents of an HTTP cookie. Whenever I read about a vulnerability predicated on the user identity being embedded ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
A remote vulnerability exists in the QuickTime player for Windows XP and Vista (latest service packs). Other versions are believed to be affected as well. For now, no details will be released regarding the method of exploitation.
Because we are an information security think tank and because we encounter some very ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Opera 9.5 Beta 2 has stepped up its security game. The browser has added fraud protection and support for EV SSL (Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer) certificates to help prevent identity theft.
Opera’s move to join the EV SSL crowd leaves Safari as the only browser without anti-phishing protection. As you ...
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