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WordPress 2.6.2 Released Due To PHP Weakness That Might Lead To Attack

2008-09-09 03:24:16 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
New WordPress version, 2.6.2, was released today to mitigate a new attack vector discovered by PHP security researcher Stefan Esser. According to an advisory from WordPress blog, Stefan Esser recently warned developers of the dangers of SQL Column Truncation and the weakness of mt rand(). Blogs that allow users registration should be upgraded as...
 
Tags: sql column truncation, stefan esser recently, weakness, wordpress blog, users registration, wordpress version, attack vector, blogs, rand
 
 
 
 
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The Cyber Storm II Cyber Exercise

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2008-04-03 12:29:03 by HASH0x8b6d0a8 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...weakness in their respective disaster recovery and response plans. 'The exercises really are designed to push the envelope and take your failover and backup plans and shred them to pieces,' said Carl Banzhof, chief technology evangelist at McAfee and a cyber warrior in the 2006 exercise. Cyber Storm planners say they intend to throw a...
 
Tags: cyber warfare, passive cyber warfare, cyber warfare tensions, offensive cyber warfare, cyber warfare exercise, warfare, econonomic warfare, cyber warfare attacks, broader information warfare
 
 
 
 
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Cached Malware Embedded Sites

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2007-12-16 18:18:26 by HASH0x8a09e44 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...weakness for the attackers since the aggregating site or domain can become a single point of failure Google are clearly aware of what's going on, but are trying to limit the potential for false positives of sites wrongly flagged as ones serving malware, which is where malicious parties will be innovating in the future, while it still remains...
 
Tags: sites, sites wrongly, web sites, malware, malicious site, site, single site offers, sites notification services, popular sites
 
 
 
 
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Common Criteria and answering the question 'Is it Safe'

2007-12-20 16:57:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...weakness (a vulnerability) in the software used, and finding a way to exploit that vulnerability for a nefarious purpose. Security professionals have various frameworks on how to define safe that usually factor in some of the following considerations 1) Value of protected assets 2) Assumptions about the sophistication of and level of...
 
Tags: criteria, fails, common criteria fails, common criteria, common criteria arguably, common, arguably, arguably deficient, security
 
 
 
 
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Inside America's Satellite-Killing Missile

2008-02-15 21:00:00 by Danger Room in Wired Security
 
The weapon that the Pentagon wants to use to shoot down a failing satellite is well-tested. But its one weakness could pose a problem, as the military tries to take that satellite out
 
Tags: satellite, pentagon, weapon, weakness, military, pose
 
 
 
 
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Laptop theft highlights security weakness

2008-02-20 18:30:20 by Editor in ElectricNews.net - SECURITY
 
The records of over 171,000 Irish blood donors have been compromised following the theft of a laptop from an official in New York on 7 February
 
Tags: irish blood donors, laptop, theft, york, records, february, official
 
 
 
 
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Hacking cellular phone conversations

2008-02-21 10:42:26 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
Researchers have known for several years that wireless telephone converstations over GSM networks are theoretically subject to eavesdropping. This is due to a weakness in GSM networks (used by companies like AT&T and T-Mobile) that allows cracking GSM encryption. However, actually cracking GSM-based communications for fun and profit was not...
 
Tags: gsm networks, wireless telephone converstations, gsm encryption, practical, t-mobile, due, weakness, att, subject
 
 
 
 
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Cryptanalysis of A5/1

2008-02-22 06:31:45 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...weakness; we know that with time, the weaknesses will be exploited more effectively to yield better and faster attacks
 
Tags: cryptanalysis, a51 cryptanalysis papers, a51, attacks, time, total time, total hardware cost, faster attacks, abandon algorithms
 
 
 
 
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Seven Years of Wi-Fi Networking News

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2008-04-04 15:10:45 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...Weakness in Passphrase Choice in WPA Interface Most Wireless Speakers Don't Live Up to Goal Best Wi-Fi Signal Finder Yet Linksys Latest Models: Your Experience T-Mobile Loses Starbucks; AT&T Becomes Wi-Fi Hotspot Giant Editorial: Don't Buy Draft N WPA for Free under Windows 2000 The L in Linksys WRT54GL Stands for Linux A few observations....
 
Tags: wi-fi, wi-fi hotspot giant, municipal wi-fi, wi-fi signal finder, wi-fi world, world, 11b-later-wi-fi site, 11b, news
 
 
 
 
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Vulnerability Events

2008-03-30 17:20:05 by JonesJ in RiskAnalys.is