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Archive for the 'Security Threats' Category

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

Vulnerabilities

Sun Solaris
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Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

Vulnerabilities
php - tempnam() open_basedir bypass PHP 4.4.2 and 5.1.2: details
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Monday, April 10th, 2006

Vulnerabilities
XSS in “phpinfo()”: details
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Friday, April 7th, 2006

Vulnerabilities
Linux Kernel: Update to 2.14.1/2.4.32-pre1; CVE-2005-3275

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

Two articles from Tallahassee[1] [2] and one from Netcraft, show that 3 different websites from online banks are vulnerable to XSS.
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Friday, March 17th, 2006

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Monday, February 27th, 2006

We’ve just seen a new trojan come up. The various virus databases failed to pick it up (well, the dozen or so that we tried it with), with the exception of BitDefender which picked it up via heuristic detection. The Social Engineering component is quite good - as shown below. Who would expect a virus from HMRC.
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Monday, February 20th, 2006

Phishing, scamming and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks were first used to steal passwords from web-based mail and banking resources.
And from the beginnings of small offences, a new generation of hackers have appeared to trick people to steal money. Launched on bigger scales each time, profits are gaining.
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2006

Yesterday, we came across the PHP/Apache XSS disclosure: blog.phpdoc.info
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Monday, January 30th, 2006

Phew. We’re currently seeing a relatively large number of new brepibot variants arriving - a new one about every hour. Somebody is being busy.
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