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House committee issues report and finds fault with TSA web site

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2008-01-15 09:35:53 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...site between October 6, 2006 and February 13, 2007 Number Affected thousands Types of Data Name, Social Security number, birth date, birth place, sex, height, weight, hair color, eye color, address, and home and work telephone number Breach Description According to the January, 2008 United States House of Representatives Committee on...
 
Tags: tsa, website, website contract, traveler redress website, tsa moved quickly, security breach, information security breach, security vulnerabilities, multiple security vulnerabilities
 
 
 
 
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Passport Canada web site suffers serious breach

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2007-12-05 11:51:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...site. Passport Canada officials confirmed the security flaw and breach on Tuesday, December 4th Reference URL Reuters Canada News Story 680News.com News Story The Globe and Mail News Story The Register News Story (UK - Good commentary Report Credit Kenyon Wallace, Globe and Mail (CA Response From the sources cited above A security flaw in...
 
Tags: passport canada, information, personal information, passport application information, application, breach, passport application site, passport canada spokesman, significant security breaches
 
 
 
 
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Anti-Malware Vendor's Site Serving Malware

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2008-02-12 20:31:18 by HASH0x8b333c4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...site even bigger, the irony is perhaps what truly matters in the situation. Some press coverage - Hackers Turn Antivirus Site Into Virus Spreader ; Antivirus company's Web site downloads ... a virus ; Hackers seed malware on Indian anti-virus site Hackers planted malicious script on the site of an Indian anti-virus firm this week. The...
 
Tags: site, virut virus, virus, indian anti-virus site, malware, web site downloads, antivirus site, hackers, hackers seed malware
 
 
 
 
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Web Site: Security and Trust

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2007-01-18 07:10:00 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security
...site that is accessible securely through https can be trusted. This is not true. Not all the sites that use https can be trusted. Nothing can stop fraudsters from setting up a https web site. Though https offers security it does not offer trust. Trust is a choice that the user has to make consciously. Here are some tips that help you to...
 
Tags: web site, https, https web site, trust, offer trust, web site belongs, https url, https offers security, ensure
 
 
 
 
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Irish jobs site compromised and personal information accessed

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2008-03-31 10:13:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...site Jobs.ie late on Thursday 27 March, when what the company described as a small number of CVs were illegally downloaded by a third-party that hacked the site and gained access to the database Reference URL Jobs.ie Important Notice SiliconRepublic The Irish Times ElectricNews.net Ltd Report Credit Jobs.ie Response From the online sources...
 
Tags: jobs, information, personal information, job-seekers site jobs, site, identity, identity theft, breach description, breach
 
 
 
 
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A Commercial Web Site Defacement Tool

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2008-04-01 06:25:00 by HASH0x8b4eee4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...site defacement tools There's a common misunderstanding regarding web site defacement tools, namely that of a defacer on purposely targeting a specific domain. That's at least the way it used to be, before defacers started embracing the efficiency model, namely deface anyone, anywhere, than parse the successful defacements logs, come...
 
Tags: malware, malware attack, approaches, defacers, creative approaches, site, entire defacers community, defacers deface, deface
 
 
 
 
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Web Site Defacement Groups Going Phishing

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2008-04-28 01:23:00 by HASH0x88f9370 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...site defacement groups' vertical integration in the underground market in respect to hosting phishing pages on the defaced hosts, is starting to emerge. Take for instance yet another currently live phishing page - bamaangels.net/photogallery/content/Models/Brigitte/boa . The site is known to has been defaced in the past, and it looks like...
 
Tags: web site defacement, site, web site defacements, bamaangels, scale type, page, serve malware, underground market, malwaware authors
 
 
 
 
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New Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library Available

2006-11-27 08:01:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...Site Scripting or XSS is when an application displays input that originated from the client. This could be a URL, cookie variables, as well as form field variables. Virtually every site is susceptible to these types of attacks, regardless of the server or client environments On every penetration test I have ever performed on a web...
 
Tags: library, xss, xss attacks, anti-xss library, vulnerability, xss vulnerability, cross site, site, xss attack
 
 
 
 
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Nepalese Government site Hacked

2007-12-15 23:20:03 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
The Nepalese government site has been pwned by an Iranian Black Hat Team yesterday. The nepalese government filled with moron ministers are still not able to bring back the site online probably because they do not have the backups. Keep in mind this is the governments main site
 
Tags: nepalese government, nepalese government site, governments main site, site online, moron ministers, backups, mind, pwned
 
 
 
 
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Personal information of 103,000 doctors from 11 states posted to web site

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