A pair days ago I read this new on Slashdot: cPanel Exploit Used to Circulate IE Exploit
QUOTE "In a dangerous combination of unpatched exploits, hackers have used a previously
undiscovered security hole in cPanel to hack the servers of a hosting company and use hundreds of
hijacked sites to infect Internet Explorer users with malware using the unpatched VML exploit.
cPanel, whose hosting automation software is used by many large hosting companies, has issued a fix.
It's a local exploit, meaning the attacker must control a cPanel account on the target hosti...

I saw this white paper and I thought I bring down some interesting information that has come from
2007 and leading into 2008. I have to say though that the information on this white paper is pretty
darn mind blowing as I bounce some facts to everyone. Of course since I been getting into this
since last year it is not all that surprising since I posted many topics about it as well.
-Sophos currently sees 6,000 new infected webpages each day -One infected page every 14 seconds
-Only about 1 in 5 of these sites is a hacker site -83 percent are hacked sites, or legitima...

OH NO!!! (sarcasm there) QUOTE A flaw in the way the Firefox and Opera browsers
handle an image file could allow an attacker to see what Web sites a person has visited. The
problem concerns how the two browsers handle a ".BMP," or bitmap, image file, according to an
advisory written by Gynvael Coldwind of Vexillium.org, who posted a video illustrating the problem.
A malicious bitmap file can be created that pulls other information from the browsers' memory.
Some of the information that can be captured is random, but at other times could be valuable...

I just got a new laptop, and of course it's loaded with vista. Everything works awesomly!
(my last PC was from 2001, BIG DIFF.) But the damned thing compulsivly and automatically sets
Internet Explorer to my default browser and won't let me change certain things which browsers
will typically handle. 've manually changed it so Firefox handles all the stuff except HTTPS
and what not (CANNOT CHANGE W/O HACK!), but IE just bumps in every time I want to click a link
from a non-browser based file /sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="...

Before I go into this topic I have to say, stop making up these crazy names. I know I just getting
into the security side of things but still as long as there are computer problems and ways to sucker
someone into downloading the stuff, the crazy names will still live on. QUOTE Lieware
ADVERTISEMENT In 2007, there was a lot of "rogue anti-virus software," which is sometimes also
referred to as "fake anti-virus software." But these terms are confusing because there's too
much negation going on. Fake anti-virus software is not anti-virus software at all. So what ...

Well I have to same I am bit surprise on this security flaw especially what it can do; in which all
a user has to do is open a malicious Excel document and it allows the hackers to execute remote code
on to your system. As far as how wide spread this vulnerability is, it hits every excel software
from Excel 2000 to Excel 2003 SP2, and it also includes the Mac Version of Excel 2004 as well. OF
course with the disappointment of Office 2007 by some people will still be running the 2003 versions
on their computers. Right now the attacks are minimal and the question for t ...

A very good article titled "Security Common Sense" in gnucitizen.org Below is the link to that
article http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/security-common-sense Website Link
http://www.gnucitizen.org "We basically train a bunch of monkeys to click the yes button for
every security warning." Don't you think many of us fall under the category? because most of
the time we do not see what the dialog says, but press Yes, which might not treat you well
sometimes... A good read....

Well I saw this article and after reading it all just to find the top 10 security problems I thought
I share them and give my thoughts about them. I know I know its horrible but what can I say, its me
/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":lol:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />. 1.) Data
Breaches For the most part I am not surprise especially the big stories of 2007 which include the
TJ Max breach of 45 million credit/debit cards; I believe that has been the biggest hack job ever in
terms of stolen cards and id theft (somewhat). Oh lets not forget the al...

Hi, I've posted some security tools and links in my last posts,I preferd to post new topic and
send he extra here : Network Sniffers # DSniff http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff/ #
Ethereal - full network protocol sniffer/analyzer http://www.ethereal.com/ # IPTraf - curses based
IP LAN monitor http://iptraf.seul.org/ # TcpDump - network monitor and data acquisition
http://www.tcpdump.org/ # KISMET - 802.11 wireless network detector, sniffer and intrusion
detection system http://www.kismetwireless.net/ Online Tools # AutomatedScanning.com - commer...

With the flood of news coming about the .ani exploits it seems the tech world is recieve more news
about new hacks, viruses and other bad stuff these days. Today Kaspersky Lab created a virus that
is able to affect the Ipod, however, it is only affecting Ipod's that have linux installed and
not the standard OS that comes with Ipod. The virus goes by the name of Podloso, although they say
it doesn't show a current threat this virus does show the possiblity to install malware into
devices such as the Ipod. They also mention that the virus does not copy it self...

Well it seems firefox flaws are becoming a popular now, the two flaws that have been reported all
follow the same protocol that had posted about before; QUOTE The flaw lies in Firefox's URL
handler component.. Like the first flaw, this one could be exploited by attackers to launch
programs on the victim's PC without authorization, said Tyler Reguly, a security research
engineer at nCircle Network Security Inc. "They're both related to the URL handling process," he
said "It's just different errors within that handling process." So far it would se...

Well it has finally happen and strangely enough I didn't really think about it until now, but it
seems a security team found a very high level bug that requires both Internet Explorer 7 and
Modzilla Fire Fox. This is the jist of the bug; QUOTE The root of the matter is a Firefox
uniform resource identifier (URI) that allows Web sites to force Firefox to launch with the
"firefoxurl://" URI, Secunia reported. The way in which the URI handler is registered by Firefox
causes any parameter to be passed from IE (or another application) to Firefox when the "firefoxurl...

Security Guidelines for Internet Users 1. Install an anti-virus software, you can free ones like
AVG Free . Ensure that it's regularly updated - this is of the utmost importance. 2.
Anti-virus software is not enough, the security can be tightened using a firewall software which
will help you prevent unauthorized incoming and outgoing communications from your computer while
connected to the Internet. 3. Disconnect your computer from the Internet when not in use. The
longer you are connected to the Internet, the more opportunity you give for persons to gain un...

QUOTE PHP Security If you are using PHP on your website we ask that you please read the
following carefully. We have noticed a significant number of PHP websites are being compromised
due to vulnerable PHP code. Spammers are scanning millions of websites on the Internet looking for
PHP scripts that can be exploited to send spam. When they find a script that has a loophole they
send thousands of email messages through the script, often taking down the website or severely
impacting website performance. Generally these loopholes exploit code using paramet...

I was able to browse around this and found it interesting since this vunerability is found in 4
Microsoft Operating Sytems, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 2003 Server. From the
article Microsoft stated that their is a hole in the .ani files, which happen to be related tothe
mouse cursor, when the mouse icon changes depending on what you do. They only mention that with
this flaw it always hackers to break into someone computer and do their thing. But in another
article relating to this attack it was mention that in order for this to happen a user has ...

Even though the fiasco with the .ANI exploit is still going strong microsoft released it's month
updates this time they found 4 more critical breaches in it's systems (XP), most people should
have gotten the update pop up screen yesterday. So here is the info on these critical flaws.
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=84687 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=85130
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=85163 http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=85164
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=80251 I don't know how reliable vista will be af...

Link to Article: http://news.com.com/Hackers+claim+zero-day..._3-6121608.html Thought this was
interesting. Really caught me offgaurd, didn't expect such a huge flaw on a GPL based program.
Whats even more scary is they said they have about 30 other flaws found......

Windows has been acting strangely by now, it freezes/clogs badly, I can't use Opera, MF or
continue my tutorials due to this problem. It gets on my nerves as I think it was MY problem because
I deleted MOST of the files in the Temp folder. CODE (Start>Run...>%Temp%)
That folder, most of the files were deleted by me. I consulted my friend by half-screwed MSN, he
said I "effed me up the arse" by doing that. He recommended me backing up and formatting. I never
did that before so I think it will be most-likely half-impossible for me. And as I d...

We all know the difference between a limited user and an administrator user under Win2k/XP - you
can't/can install major software, perform system maintainence, and other stuff. But using a
limited user on a day-to-day basis also provides you with decent protection from a bunch of threats:
if the malware is running under your limited-rights user, it can only do as much as you can. For
instance, a limited rights user can't edit the HKLM hive of the Registry, so any malware running
under the same user won't be able to touch that area. It's extremely simple t...

List of security sites, I'll try to update the list as soon as I can . with compilations of
recent security threats, Global Incident Analysis Center (GIAC), GIAC training, and Reading Room
http://www.sans.org/ http://www.infragard.net/ http://www.cert.org/security-improvement/
CERT Security Improvement Modules,including general information on firewalls and intrusion
detectors. excellent set of papers on firewalls, viruses, e-commerce, etc. http://www.icsa.net/
http://www.gocsi.com/ (Source of the annual "CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Su...

Hi everyone!!!!!!! This is the last one!! /tongue.gif"
style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" /> Ok guys, I heard
somewhere that if we protect some page with password, it is steel not safe at all, if we dont hace a
secure connction (http s ://...) How is it true? is there a posibility that some one can see a page,
even if it is protected by password? (the scrit in tha page don't allow IDs that didn't past
from the login page) is that script sufficent? thanks a lot to every one /biggrin....

a security threat to be concerned with is the increasing prevalence of viruses containing advanced
rootkits to hide their actions or data on the computer. even from the anti-stuff tools. a
rootkit was originally a name for tools that hackers/crackers would use to maintain root on
unix/linux machines. root is the uber user with all the permissions on a linux box. on windows
these tools can be used to hide data on the harddrive and in the registry by manipulating the way
the data is stored. THe windows api(the thing windows uses to communicate to the hardware) read...

QUOTE A teenage blogger claims to have discovered a flaw in Google's Gmail service that
allows JavaScript to run, potentially allowing a malicious hacker to gather e-mail addresses or
compromise an account. The supposed flaw may already have been fixed, however. Advertisement: The
teenager identifies himself in his blog as a 14-year-old named Anthony. His entry about Gmail is
here. He wrote that he was trying to e-mail JavaScript code from a Yahoo account to a G-mail
account. The code will run in a preview pane, he wrote. But if the code is mailed from one Gma...

(excessively long intro, skip to 'suggestions' for immediate tips) Its almost 2 am and I
just finished an email detailing some ideas I had to keep systems a little more secure than usual (
tips that can be applied to most any Windows users system ). I dont feel like re-editing it so it
doesnt sound I copied and pasted it from my email, cause I did, and its late. Please note THIS IS
NOT SPAM. I did write all of this, just in an email before I copied and pasted it here. These are
entirely valid and ( I hope ) helpful tips for most anyone. Of course I hate just yap...

QUOTE Earlier this week, I blogged about a site doing a bunch of different exploits, depending
on what you are running. One of the things the site will do is detect if you have Firefox, and
attempt to exploit it, using the InstallVersion.compareTo() vulnerability. Read More with
images Already found to be copying and pasting. Take this time to review our forum rules. Warning.
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Microsoft Ships First Vista Security Patches http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1911406,00.asp
QUOTE Microsoft Corp. has shipped the first critical security update for Windows Vista, the
next version of its flagship operating system. Over the weekend, the company released patches for
beta testers running the Windows Vista December CTP (Community Technology Preview) and Windows Vista
Beta 1, and warned that the new operating system was vulnerable to a remote code execution flaw in
the Graphics Rendering Engine. A Microsoft spokesperson told eWEEK that the Vi...

Talking about manual removals of viruses I thought I better be a pioneer of this by sharing my
knowledge about a virus. I would like to tell the effects and manual removing technique of a very
common and irritating virus, that is HTML Redoff. First I would like to discuss its effects, HTML
Redoff virus infects kernel32.dll file which is installed in your “WINDOWS\SYSTEM” directory in
case you have Windows 98 and “WINDOWS\SYSTEM32” directory in case you have Windows XP and all
the .htm, .html, folder.htt and desktop.ini files on your PC thus it slows down your...

On the end of February was discovered that the first trojan (Leap) to target Apple Computer's
Mac OS X, it was published on a new worm that exploits an 8-month-old vulnerability in the operating
system, its know by the name of Inqtana, the worm use Bluetooth to propagate, once it infects a
computer it searches for other Bluetooth-enabled devices and sends itself to those it finds, this
may not be very alarm, but the source code could be easily modified by a future attacker to do
damage like Symantec said, Symantec also says it believes the two pests were developed on...