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»Mac OS X ARDAgent Local Privilege Escalation
ARDAgent in Apple Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.4 allows local users to gain privileges via an osascript tell ...
»Creative Software AutoUpdate Engine ActiveX stack buffer overflow
The Creative Software AutoUpdate Engine ActiveX control is a component that provides automatic updat ...
»Internet Connection Sharing DoS
A denial of service vulnerability exists within the Internet Connection Sharing service in Microsoft ...
»RPC Memory Exhaustion
The three referenced exploits take advantage of an inherent problem in RPC, in which an attacker get ...

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»Rogue MD5 SSL Certificate Vulnerability
»Worm Exploiting Vulnerability described in MS08-067
»Malware Spreading via Malicious Ecards
»Mozilla Releases Thunderbird 2.0.0.19
»Trend Micro Releases Updates for HouseCall
»Microsoft Releases Security Advisory (961040)
»Microsoft Releases Security Bulletin MS08-078
»Mozilla has released Firefox 3.0.5
»Opera Software releases Opera Version 9.63
»Microsoft Releases Advance Notification

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»News: Group attacks flaw in browser crypto security
Group attacks flaw in browser crypto security
»News: Commission calls for cybersecurity czar
Commission calls for cybersecurity czar
»News: Microsoft hopes free security means less malware
Microsoft hopes free security means less malware

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»News: Researchers find more flaws in wireless security
Researchers find more flaws in wireless security
»Brief: Researchers claim flaws in Intel's trusted platform
Researchers claim flaws in Intel's trusted platform

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»HTTP Verb Brute Forcing
I read a few interesting posts here and here regarding brute forcing HTTP verbs. The F5 post sugges ...
»ToS Abuse Abuse
Sorry I haven’t posted in a while. Not for lack of wanting to, but alas, the real world keeps ...
»Browser Power Consumption
This isn’t like most the other posts I do on here since it’s only tangentially security ...
»HTTPOnly Fix In MSXML
I’m happy to announce that Microsoft has released MS08-069 today. It’s got a lot of cha ...
»Lifelock Protects You from Clickjacking
Well, now I’ve seen everything. Just when I didn’t think I could ever be amazed more by ...
»Security Expert Rehabilitation
In light of my last gloom and doom post, I wanted to turn the tables and add some humor. A while ba ...
»Apocalyptic Vulnerability Percentages - FUD 101
I’ve spent a long time in the trenches and recently I’ve been getting more and more jade ...
»More McAfee Snakeoil Ranting
I know a lot of people are just tired of the same old PCI ASV rant that really surfaced last year, b ...
»Clickjacking Details
Today is the day we can finally start talking about clickjacking. This is just meant to be a quick ...
»Tomcat SSL Fingerprinting
I ran into this a few weeks ago and I thought it was just so silly I had to post it. If you telnet ...

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»T-025: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft XML Core Services
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft XML Core Services parses XML ...
»T-024: Vulnerability in Server Message Block (SMB)
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB) Pr ...
»T-023: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Cisco PIX and Cisco ASA
Multiple vulnerabilities exist in the Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliances and Cisco P ...
»T-022: OpenOffice.org Security Vulnerabilities
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenOffice.org office suite, in the WMF file par ...
»T-021: libspf2 DNS TXT Vulnerability
libspf2 contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in code that parses DNS TXT records. An SPF record ...
»T-020: Security Update for Adobe Reader 8 and Acrobat 8
Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.1.2 and earlier versions ...
»T-019: libxml2 Vulnerability
It was discovered that libxml2, the GNOME XML library, didn't correctly handle long entity names. T ...
»T-018: Vulnerability in Server Service
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the Server service on Windows systems. The vulnerabi ...
»T-017: Gear Software CD DVD Filter Vulnerability
The Gear Software CD DVD Filter driver contains a privilege escalation vulnerability, which can allo ...
»T-016: iseemedia / Roxio / MGI Software LPViewer ActiveX Vulnerabilities
The iseemedia LPViewer ActiveX control contains multiple stack buffer overflows, which can allow a r ...
»T-015: InstallShield / Macrovision / Acresso FLEXnet Connect Vulnerabilities
Acresso FLEXnet Connect executes scripts that are insecurely retrieved from a remote web server, whi ...
»CIACTech08-003: Understanding Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Cross-Site Scripting has become an increasingly prevalent attack vector that can be leveraged to per ...
»CIACTech08-002: Understanding Windows Hash Dumpers and Crackers
Windows hash dumping tools are often spotlighted as hacker tools that can somehow magically extract ...
»CIACTech08-001: Understanding PHP Exploits
Many websites use the PHP programming language to build web pages on the fly from individual files a ...
»CIACTech07-001: MOICE - Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment
A common cyber attack is to send a user an Office document (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) containing mal ...

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