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Someone has published a SQL Injection in labs.oracle.com at http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/07/oracle-website-vulnerable-to-sql.html . That is all.
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Gawker was recently compromised and had its source code and user passwords leaked onto the web. The Wall Street Journal has published a list of the top 50 passwords with the #1 password being '123456'. The full list can be found at http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/12/13/the-top-50-gawker-media-passwords/
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Someone has published an amusing cheat sheet that will allow you to fuzz barcode scanning systems for common input validation issues such as XSS and SQL Injection. They even provide an online barcode generator which allows you to create your own payloads. Not much else to say really :) Link: http://www.irongeek.com/xss-sql-injection-fuzzing-barcode-generator.php
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An interview claiming to be with a facebook employee discusses a few things that you probably were hoping didn't happen. Here are some choice quotes from the article " Rumpus: Have you ever logged in to anyone’s account? Employee: I have. For engineering reasons. Rumpus: Have you ever done it outside of...
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I don't usually post much about hacking incidents but this one was particularly funny. "A college student has been dropped from her classes twice, apparently the victim of someone who hacked into her schedule.Michelle McCoy-Lloyd was going to take two culinary classes at San Joaquin Delta College starting next week.Last month, someone...
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"The Romanian hacker who successfully broke into a web site owned by security vendor Kaspersky Lab has struck again, this time exposing shortcomings in a Symantec web server. The hacker, known only as Unu, said in a blog post today that he was able to access a server belonging to the security...
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"What was essentially a typo last night resulted in the temporary disappearance from the Internet of almost a million Web sites in Sweden -- every address with a .se top-level down name. According to Web monitoring company Pingdom, which happens to be based in Sweden, the disablement of an entire top-level domain...
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After checking out my favorite stocks this morning at finance.yahoo.com I saw an article titled 'best jobs in America' so figured I'd check it out. To my surprise Computer/Network Security Consultant was ranked as the 8th best job in the US. Very cool! Link: http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/107932/best-jobs-in-america.html
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UPDATE: Reddit has posted a blog entry at http://blog.reddit.com/2009/09/we-had-some-bugs-and-it-hurt-us.html addressing this. "Popular social news website Reddit has stopped the spread of a cross-site scripting (XSS) worm that hit the site on Monday. The XSS worm spread via comments on the site, originally from the account of a user called xssfinder. Reddit failed...
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"A Russian security group has posted a detailed blog post about how they managed to extract the source code to over 3,300 websites. The group found that some of the largest and best known domains on the web, such as apache.org and php.net, amongst others, are vulnerable to an elementary information leak...
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"Yesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a result, the first account without a key in the database (usually the admin account) would have its password reset...
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"Gary McKinnon has lost a judicial review against his extradition to the United States on hacking charges. Lawyers for the Briton hoped his recent diagnosis with Asperger's Syndrome would be enough to persuade judges to overturn previous rulings and allow McKinnon to be tried in the UK." - The Register Long...
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Just got back from vegas and finally started catching up. Looks like a fake ATM was placed at defcon (no surprise). "As the conference was kicking off a few days ago, attendees noticed that at ATM placed in the Riviera Hotel, which plays host to the annual event, didn't quite look...
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The hacking group/movement antisec has replaced every image on imageshack with a hacked image and has posted the following to the full disclosure mailing list. " __ .__ _____ _____/ |_|__| ______ ____ ____ __ / __ | ______ / ___// __ _/ ___ / __ | | ...
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"A claim of a software vulnerability in a program used to connect securely to servers across the Internet is likely a hoax, according to an analyst with the SANS Internet Storm Center. The program, called OpenSSH (Secure Shell), is installed on tens of millions of servers made by vendors such as...
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"For years, government officials have urged consumers to protect their social security numbers by giving out the nine-digit codes only when absolutely necessary. Now it turns out that all the caution in the world may not be enough: New research shows that social security numbers can be predicted from publicly available...
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"Iran's foreign ministry spokesman accused the cable network CNN of "officially" training people to "hack government and foreign ministry" websites on Monday, citing a CNN.com article that explained how hackers were launching distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks on Iranian government sites. "They officially trained the people to come and hack Iran's government...
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"A URL-shortening service that condenses long Web addresses for use on micro-blogging sites like Twitter was hacked over the weekend, sending millions of users to an unintended destination, a security researcher said today. After Cligs, a rival to the better known TinyURL and bit.ly shortening services, was attacked Sunday, more than...
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"Did you hear the one about the hacker-free e-mail service that was so confident about its enhanced security measure that it offered up $10,000 to anyone who could hack into it? It got hacked. Here’s the part that’s really crazy, though. There was initially some question as to whether or not...
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"For those who don't know of Astalavista, it was a popular website for "hackers" with relatively low-quality content. It started in 1994, and was one of the first search engines for computer security information. It hosted software exploits, and quickly degenerated into a forum for sharing software cracks, spyware, and virii....
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"The site, which launched in 1996, covered all aspects of flight simulation, although its main focus was on Microsoft's Flight Simulator. The attack took down the site's two servers and the owners had not established an external backup system. The site's founder, Tom Allensworth, said that the site would be down...
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"A government audit (PDF) has pinpointed more than 3,800 vulnerabilities -- 763 of which are high-risk -- in the Federal Aviation Administration's Web-based air traffic control system applications, including some that could potentially put air travel at risk. The U.S. Department of Transportation report, with the help of auditors from KPMG,...
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Posted: May 5th, 2009, 11:32am CDT by Robert A.
"McAfee, widely recognized as one of the leading providers of online security software for both home and business, appears to be struggling to secure its own Web sites, which at the time of writing this post, allow anyone with enough tech savvy to covertly do whatever they want on, and with,...
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Posted: May 1st, 2009, 11:37am CDT by Robert A.
Twitter has been hacked again and had it's administrative panel (which shouldn't be web accessible) breached. "This week, unauthorized access to Twitter was gained by an outside party. Our initial security reviews and investigations indicate that no account information was altered or removed in any way. However, we discovered that 10...
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UPDATE: F-Secure has posted more detailed information. "Some 24 hours after a worm spread advertising on Twitter, the popular social networking website, a second worm emerged on Sunday. Both worms appear to be created by Mikeyy Mooney, a 17-year-old from Brooklyn, New York. The first worm emerged on Saturday when Twitter...
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Netcraft firms that Lynx is gaining popularity due to the increase in browser security bugs. "Netcraft has observed a surge in popularity of the Lynx browser, particularly since the recent Pwn2Own competition, which was held at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver last month. During the course of the competition, security researchers...
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After viewing the metasploit site this morning it appears the FBI and DHS has shut it down. According to sources HD Moore is on the run somewhere in Mexico.
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A new certification program has just been launched, and is brought to you by the same people who brought us ScanLessPCI "The Institute is the industry's leading authority for Certified ASS's. Our curriculum complies with the highest industry standards while still reflecting the operational realities of securing applications in the modern...
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"The BBC hacked into 22,000 computers as part of an investigation into cybercrime but the move quickly backfired, with legal experts claiming the broadcaster broke the law and security gurus saying the experiment went too far. The technology show Click acquired a network of 22,000 hijacked computers - known as a...
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I found the following post fairly amusing and had to link it here. "A few days ago I complained about the incredibly awkward IT Security Girl of the Year award that will be dished out later this year at the French IT security conference FRHACK. Apparently the FRHACK organizers did not...
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I found the following post fairly amusing and had to link it here. "A few days ago I complained about the incredibly awkward IT Security Girl of the Year award that will be dished out later this year at the French IT security conference FRHACK. Apparently the FRHACK organizers did not...
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"What's Wikileaks, the net's foremost document leaking site, supposed to do when a whistle-blower submits a list of email addresses belonging to the site's confidential donors as a leaked document? That's exactly the conundrum Wikileaks faced this week after someone from the controversial whistle-blowing site sent an emergency fund-raising appeal on...
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"Who discovers the most security vulnerabilities? That’s one of the more frequent questions I’ve encountered over the past few years. Funnily enough there’s usually a high correlation between the timing of my being asked and the latest marketing blitzkrieg customers may have encountered (not from IBM of course). It seems that...
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"Defacement archive Zone-h.org has itself been defaced. The hack - claimed in the names of Cyber-Terrorist, HeLL cYbEr, and Jurm - involved posting a link to a YouTube video and dancing babies on the site's altered home page. The Arab language video, featuring an ad promoting nappies, replaced the site's usual...
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"A Romanian hacker site said on Wednesday it was able to breach the website of Helsinki-based security firm F-Secure just as it had gained access to the sites of two other security companies earlier in the week. F-Secure is "vulnerable to SQL Injection plus Cross Site Scripting," an entry on the...
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A security lapse at Kaspersky has exposed a wealth of proprietary information about the anti-virus provider's products and customers, according to a blogger, who posted screen shots and other details that appeared to substantiate the claims. In a posting made Saturday, the hacker claimed a simple SQL injection gave access to...
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"In a post on Blogger on Saturday, a person who claims to have breached the Web site of open-source online community software phpBB gave a detailed account of how he did it. Using a vulnerability in PHPlist publicly disclosed on January 14, the attacker gained access to the password and configuration...
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"Transportation officials in Texas are scrambling to prevent hackers from changing messages on digital road signs after one sign in Austin was altered to read, "Zombies Ahead." Chris Lippincott, director of media relations for the Texas Department of Transportation, confirmed that a portable traffic sign at Lamar Boulevard and West 15th...
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"A widely-circulated URL which points to a image that purports to be a Wired.com story about Steve Jobs health is a hack job. We won't provide the URL here, but the Twitterverse quickly surmised that the item was not correct. As have Mashable and Gizmodo. I've written a number of stories...
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Lenny Zeltser from dshield has posted an amusing list of ways to suck at information security broken upin the following categories.- Security Policy and Compliance- Security Tools- Risk Management- Security Practices- Password ManagementHere's a snippet"Security Tools Deploy a security product out of the box without tuning it. Tune the IDS to...
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"MacRumors, one of the many sites which cover Apple's annual Macworld product launches, has had its live coverage infiltrated, with someone adding the false news of Steve Jobs's death to the blow-by-blow reports."Here's the very amusing screenshot of the incident.http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gawker/2009/01/macrumorshacked.jpgRead more: http://valleywag.gawker.com/5124580/hackers-post-faked-report-of-steve-jobss-death
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From Twitter's blog"The issue with these 33 accounts is different from the Phishing scam aimed at Twitter users this weekend. These accounts were compromised by an individual who hacked into some of the tools our support team uses to help people do things like edit the email address associated with their...
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I've been collecting a list of security predictions for 2009 that people on this list may find 'interesting'.Here they areOpinion: Security predictions for 2009http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9124621&source=rss_news2009 Security Predictionshttp://www.sans.edu/resources/securitylab/2009_predictions.phpSecurity predictions for 2009http://www.itworld.com/security/59948/security-predictions-200910 Security Predictions For 2009http://www.crn.com/security/212201985The 2009 Security Prediction Prediction Listhttp://blogs.gartner.com/greg_young/2008/12/19/the-2009-security-prediction-prediction-list/2009 security predictions: Deja vu all over againhttp://www.infoworld.com/article/08/12/31/2009_security_predictions_Deja_vu_all_over_again_1.html2009 - my security predictionshttp://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/danj/2008/12/10/2009-my-security-predictions/Tech: What will...
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"At Drexel University and a handful of other colleges, students created computer scripts to sway the contest—an online vote to nominate a university to receive its own clothing line—in their campuses’ favor. Tim Plunkett, a junior at Drexel, created a script that could cast 1,500 votes per second, according to The...
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"With the news that Google's Android shipped with an embarrassing security hole being followed by a simple two-step method to 'jailbreak' the OS, you'd think that the company had ironed out most of the remaining bugs – but you'd be wrong. According to ZDnet's Ed Burnette, the open-source Linux-based smartphone platform...
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"Pentagon hacker Gary McKinnon has stormed into the Myspace charts with a music video about his empathy for a girl with the world on her shoulders. Called Only a fool, and owing something to soulful house boys Cabaret Voltaire, the song reached number five in the myspace video chart within 48...
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If you know me you know I don't like Atlanta and have many reasons (which I won't go into here). I have another one to add to this list after reading a story about Kevin Mitnick being detained for having lots of computer equipment with him. "In his luggage, they found...
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The full disclosure mailing list is usually 95% junk but every once in awhile an amusing/informative post gets through. Today an amusing post came through regarding a 'Worldwide SQL Protocol Advisory'. That's not to say this post isn't junk, but I found it amusing :) Here's a peek "II. Problem descriptionThe...