Archive for September 30th, 2011
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Geek: Facebook stores up to 800 pages of personal data per user account
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Online educational solutions based on Silverlight prevent 5 to 10% of Dutch students to get their schoolwork done and forces them to buy and install Windows instead. No longer they say.
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UPDATE: As several readers have already noted, these things sold out very quickly – in less than 15 minutes! Big thanks to Basic Micro! If you have been considering the purchase of a Basic ATOM Nano product, but you weren’t quite ready to lay down the cash for a dev board and Nano microcontroller, boy [...]
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RSLogix Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
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RoundCube Webmail ‘_mbox’ Parameter Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
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phpMyAdmin Multiple HTML Injection Vulnerabilities
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Acros Security: More Misconceptions About Binary Planting
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Microsoft’s Security Essentials falsely reports Google Chrome as being a password stealing trojan.&n …(more)…
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[Kyle McDonald] is trying out a new look, at least in the digital world, with the help of some openFrameworks video plugins. He’s working with [Arturo Castro] to make real-time facial substitution as realistic as possible. You can see that [Arturo's] own video has a different take on shading and color of the facial alterations [...]
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Ubuntu Security Notice 1223-1 – It was discovered that Puppet unsafely opened files when the k5login type is used to manage files. A local attacker could exploit this to overwrite arbitrary files which could be used to escalate privileges. Ricky Zhou d…
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For those living in a magical land of candy, with orange-faced helpers to do their bidding, the ability to taste your words is nothing new. But for the rest of us, the ability to taste what you type in cocktail form is a novelty. [Morskoiboy] took some back-of-the-envelope ideas and made them into a real [...]
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Here’s how phishing methods are evolving based on our recent investigations.E-mail PhishingThis message claims to be from Blizzard Entertainment.It attempts to phish the recipient by promising access to a game that’s currently under development…
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If you’re looking for a simple Ardunio project, why not replicate the first personal computer? After discovering the Arduino, [Mark] realized recreating really old computers would be a fun project. An Altair 8800 was on the table, but the sheer number of blinkenlights, switches and the Intel 8080 CPU made that a fairly difficult project. [...]
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Mozilla released Firefox version 7.0 …(more)…
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FreeBSD UIPC socket heap overflow proof of concept exploit that causes a kernel panic. Tested on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE.
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WordPress WP Bannerize plugin versions 2.8.7 and below suffer from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
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Marinet CMS suffers from a remote blind SQL injection vulnerability.
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Whitepaper called Busting Windows in Backtrack 5 R1 with Metasploit Framework 4.0.
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Ubuntu Security Notice 1222-1 – Firefox could be made to crash or possibly run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website. Benjamin Smedberg, Bob Clary, Jesse Ruderman, Bob Clary, Andrew McCreight, Andreas Gal, Gary Kwong, Igor Bukanov, Ja…
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Ubuntu Security Notice 1221-1 – It was discovered that mutt incorrectly verified the hostname in an SSL certificate. An attacker could trick mutt into trusting a rogue SMTPS, IMAPS, or POP3S server’s certificate, which was signed by a trusted certifica…
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Sites by Design Associates suffer from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
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Sites by MNS.it (Media and Net) suffer from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
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WordPress News Theme ‘cpage’ Parameter Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
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Remote file inclusion (RFI) is a popular technique used to attack web applications (especially php applications) from a remote server. RFI attacks are extremely dangerous as they allow a client to to force an vulnerable application to run their own malicious code by including a reference pointer to code from a URL located on a remote server. When an application executes the malicious code it may lead to a backdoor exploit or technical information retrieval….
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This report gives general recommendations as to how to configure SSL/TLS in order to provide state of the art authentication and encryption. The options offered by SSL engines grew from the early days since Netscape developed SSL2.0. The introduction o…
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(Posted 30 Sep 2011 by Boris Derzhavets)
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