"It's official: The famous password-cracking tool L0phtCrack is back, and its creators plan to keep it that way. L0phtCrack 6 tool, released Wednesday, was developed in 1997 by Christien Rioux, Chris Wysopal, and Peiter "Mudge" Zatko from the former L0pht Heavy Industries -- the hacker think tank best known for testifying before...
Steve Friedl posted the following to bugtraq this afternoon. "There has been a fair amount written on the vulnerability itself, but there's a large cohort who has no idea if their systems are at risk ("What is WebDAV, and how do I know if I have or need it???"). So I've written...
Microsoft research has published an excellent paper describing many browser flaws. The use case primary involves an attacker hijacking the explicitly configured proxy used by the user and via HTTP code trickery they can access the content on an HTTPS established connection. It also outlines browser flaws involving caching of SSL certs...
"The flaw, which lies in version 4.7 of OpenSSH on Debian/GNU Linux, allows 32 bits of encrypted text to be rendered in plaintext, according to a research team from the Royal Holloway Information Security Group (ISG). An attacker has a 2^{-18} (that is, one in 262,144) chance of success. ISG lead professor...
"The SamuraiWTF project team is proud to announce the immediate release of SamuraiWTF 0.6. This release contains a number of fixes and updates as well as the first release of a VM image. This VM requires Vmware 5.0 or better. It will also work in any version of VMWare Fusion.ThanksKevin Johnson" For...
"According to Julien Tinnes in the CR0 Blog, it appears that Apple's recent security update failed to fix a Java flaw that was reported to Sun back in August 2008 and patched by Sun way back in December 2008. The upshot: according to the blog (and I've yet to be able to...
Update: Microsoft has posted some additional information in multiple entries. A new unicode bug in IIS has been discovered which allows an attacker access to resources behind password protected sites. This issue only seems to affect IIS 6 (5 and 7 seem immune) and no fix has been issued at this time....
"Memcpy() and brethren, your days are numbered. At least in development shops that aspire to secure coding. Microsoft plans to formally banish the popular programming function that's been responsible for an untold number of security vulnerabilities over the years, not just in Windows but in countless other applications based on the C...
"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 for...
"In a text book case of web applications being abused due to insufficient anti-automation defenses, the Time Magazine's Internet poll of the most influential 100 people was bombarded with various methods to manipulate the results. The WASC Web Hacking Incident Database provides a great overview of the various tactics that Moot supporters...
"Apple released an update to its Leopard operating system yesterday that comes loaded with a host of security and bug fixes as well as added hardware support. The Cupertino-based firm said OS X 10.5.7 patches several security loopholes related to PHP, CoreGraphics, Apache Web server and the company’s browser Safari. Three separate...
"The University of California at Berkeley started warning students and alumni on Friday that online thieves infiltrated the school's restricted servers and stole medical records on more than 160,000 individuals. The database exposed by the breach held information on UC Berkeley's students, alumni and staff, including health insurance information and Social Security...
Not website security related but still useful tools. Autoruns v9.5: This update to Autoruns, a powerful autostart manager, adds display of audio and video codecs, which are gaining popularity as an extension mechanism used by malware to gain automatic execution. PsLoglist v2.7: This version of PsLoglist, a command-line event log display utility,...
"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, determined...
"Security researchers have released a proof-of-concept rootkit for Windows 7, in the hopes that its availability will assist in the prompt development of an antidote. Indian security researchers Vipin Kumar and Nitin Kumar demonstrated the toolkit, dubbed Vbootkit 2.0, at the Hack In The Box security conference in Dubai last month. Initially...
CVE-2009-1441: Input validation error in the browser process. A failure to properly validate input from a renderer (tab) process could allow an attacker to crash the browser and possibly run arbitrary code with the privileges of the logged on user. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to be able to...
"A 21-year-old Swede has been charged with hacking into Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO)'s computers and stealing trade secrets, U.S. officials say. Philip Gabriel Pettersson, also known as "Stakkato," was named in a five-count indictment that includes one count of intrusion and two of trade secret misappropriation involving the San Jose, Calif., computer...
"Hackers last week broke into a Virginia state Web site used by pharmacists to track prescription drug abuse. They deleted records on more than 8 million patients and replaced the site's homepage with a ransom note demanding $10 million for the return of the records, according to a posting on Wikileaks.org, an...
"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, the...
"The purpose of this paper is to discover what features and capabilities, if any, the Struts2/WebWork (hereafter referred to simply as Struts2) development team could add to increase the security of applications built with Struts2. The version analyzed was version 2.1.6, which was the latest version available when the project was started....
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 individual...
