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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 ...

Date published: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:05:00 PST
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GCN.com IT Security News

»	Report: Lab certifying voting equipment failed to meet requirements The National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program has accused SysTest Labs of not meeting the ...
»	Scott Vanstone \| Cryptography thrown an elliptic curve GCN Interview: One of the inventors of elliptic curve cryptography talks about ECC’s emerging r ...
»	Cybereye \| The threats ahead Infrastructure networking technology figures to be the hot topic during the next year when it comes ...
»	Cyber chief argues for new approaches STRATCOM commander proposes switch to white listing, more sensors and greater training and accountab ...
»	NETCOM commander weighs in on security Brig. Gen. Susan Lawrence, speaking at the 2008 LandWarNet Conference, said that data and network se ...
»	Army cyber ops faces forensic backlog Col. Barry Hensley spoke at the 2008 LandWarNet Conference, regarding the challenge of conducting fo ...
»	NIST releases draft revision of guidelines for authorizing operation IT systems Publication is part of an interagency project to harmonize C&A process across civilian, military ...
»	Layer 3 support for PDAs Array Networks offers Layer 3 VPN support for Windows Mobile devices and other PDAs.

Date published: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:39:27 GMT
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US-CERT Current Activity

»	SSH Key-based Attacks
»	Microsoft Revised Security Bulletin MS08-051
»	Red Hat Releases OpenSSH Security Update
»	Malware Circulating via Russia/Georgia Conflict Spam Messages
»	Opera Releases Version 9.52
»	Webex Meeting Manager ActiveX Control Vulnerability
»	Joomla! Password Reset Vulnerability
»	Apple MobileMe Phishing Scam
»	Microsoft Releases August Security Bulletin
»	Microsoft Releases Advanced Notification for August Security Bulletin

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SecurityFocus News

»	News: Online intruders hit Red Hat, Fedora Project Online intruders hit Red Hat, Fedora Project
»	News: Researchers race to zero in record time Researchers race to zero in record time
»	News: Gov't charges alleged TJX credit-card thieves Gov't charges alleged TJX credit-card thieves >> Advertisement << Can y ...
»	News: Poisoned DNS servers pop up as ISPs patch Poisoned DNS servers pop up as ISPs patch
»	Brief: Denial, hype cloud report of Best Western breach Denial, hype cloud report of Best Western breach

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ha.ckers.org web application security lab

»	Timing Precision If you’ve been watching the Olympics you might have see the pretty amazingly close call betwee ...
»	MySQL Truncation Etc… Stefan Esser has a really good article about how MySQL and SQL truncate columns which can lead to se ...
»	HTML 5.0 On good authority I was told to take a good hard look at the newly proposed HTML 5.0 spec that’ ...
»	MSN IP Search I’ve been meaning to write something about this for a while now, and a number of people have k ...
»	Firefox Security Model Growth Okay, I can bet I’m going to get a lot of flack for this post, so before I start, this is only ...
»	History Hack Male vs. Female and Beyond Strangely enough there’s been a ton of things happening in the CSS history hacking world latel ...
»	Private Investigator or Forensics Expert What do I have in common with Magnum PI? What does id have in common with Dog the Bounty Hunter? W ...
»	WebAppSec Survey Time Plus A Fast Approaching DefCon and Blackhat Yup, it’s about that time again. Jeremiah has put up yet another webappsec professional surve ...
»	Redirection Report Brian Krebs had an interesting report over at the Washington Post that cited a report from Indiana.e ...
»	Dialogs Of Doom So maluc and I went down the rabbit hole (again) looking for ways to screen scrape across domains us ...

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Tech Insider

»	Powering Down?
»	'YouTubing' Training Games
»	U.S. Losing E-Gov Race
»	Meyerrose to Leave ODNI
»	Can You Trust Your Database?
»	Internet Search: When More is Less?
»	Malicious Thumb Drives in Justice
»	Time for a Handheld Project Post Mortem
»	Hot Insider Entries
»	GSA becomes first civilian agency to implement IPv6
»	Speculation: Meyerrose to Leave ODNI
»	Paperless government? Only sometimes.
»	Army CIO predicts two years of uncertainty in IT program funding
»	British hacker’s extradition to U.S. held up
»	The New Dynamics of Cyber War

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CIAC Updates

»	S-371: CupsSYS Vulnerabilities Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS). The ...
»	S-370: Afuse Vulnerability It was discovered that afuse, an automounting file system in user-space, did not properly escape met ...
»	S-369: BlackBerry Attachment Service PDF Distiller Vulnerability The PDF Distiller service that is provided with BlackBerry Enterprise Server contains a vulnerabilit ...
»	S-368: RealNetworks Vulnerabilities RealPlayer contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that may allow an attacker to execute code on a ...
»	S-367: Oracle Weblogic Apache Connector Vulnerability An exploit has been public which may impact the availability, confidentiality or integrity of WebLog ...
»	S-366: Gaim Vulnerability It was discovered that Gaim, an multi-protocol instant messaging client, was vulnerable to several i ...
»	S-365: Ruby 1.8 Vulnerabilities Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the interpreter for the Ruby language, which may lea ...
»	S-364: ClamAV Vulnerabilities A vulnerability in the ClamAV anti-virus toolkit's parsing of Petite-packed Win32 executables. The w ...
»	S-363: libexslt Vulnerability It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the RC4 functions of libexslt may lead to the execution ...
»	S-362: OpenSC It was discovered that OpenSC, a library and utilities to handle smart cards, would initialise smart ...
»	S-361: Oracle Critical Patch Update - July 2008 Oracle has released a critical patch update for multiple security vulnerabilities. The risk is MEDI ...
»	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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NIST SP 800-83 Guide to Malware Incident Prevention and Handling
...n horses, malicious mobile code, blended attacks, spyware tracking cookies. It also addresses attacker tools such as backdoors and rootkits. The rec...
Posted on Saturday 14 January 2006 - 22:00:00 in

VirusTotal will scan a file for free using 22 different virus / spyware checkers
Review of VirusTotal.com, a free service that scans your submitted files using 22 different spyware and virus checkers. Virustotal is a service that a...
Posted on Sunday 18 December 2005 - 22:00:00 in

NIST SP 800-69 (draft) Guidance for Securing Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
...tections include such as: antivirus software, antispyware software, a personal firewall, limited user accounts, and automatic software updates, to sec...
Posted on Monday 14 August 2006 - 21:44:16 in

"Drop My Rights" - method to reduce harm while web surfing
...websites known to install spyware or viruses and look at the results. See the full paper at SecurityFocus.com, complete with test results.
Posted on Sunday 04 December 2005 - 23:50:12 in

SANS.ORG "Tools for Defense In-Depth" Poster
...i-spyware software when your corporation has a firewall you can show them why (you know they all claim to be \"visual\" learners)!
Posted on Tuesday 29 November 2005 - 22:00:00 in

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Computer Help | Tech Support Guy
Excellent forum where you can get quick answers to questions. Lots of Spyware help
http://www.techguy.org

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Free Online Antivirus, Spyware, and Firewall Scanners Review
You might be doing everything right with your anti-virus and spyware malware protection. But no product is perfect and a "second opinion" is always v...
Posted on Wednesday 27 December 2006 - 12:23:00

Spyware Makers Targeting Enterprises Users
The well known antivirus and security software company Panda Software is reporting that targeted spyware attacks against corporate users are becoming ...
Posted on Monday 23 January 2006 - 18:12:41

The bi-yearly Anti-Virus / Anti-Malware Test Results Are In.
...est results. *NIST.org - Free Online Antivirus, Spyware, and Firewall Scanners Reviewed Share or Bookmark this Article Using: include'/hom...
Posted on Thursday 01 March 2007 - 21:34:01

Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible
...n you are dealing with rootkits and some advanced spyware programs, the only solution is to rebuild from scratch." // @@@malware, rootkit, spywar...
Posted on Friday 07 April 2006 - 21:32:49

AMD's Tech Support Forum Serving Exploited WMF files
...s like profit was the motivation since a Adware / Spyware toolbar was installed (drive-by style) on people's computers. According to F-Secure's Mikko ...
Posted on Monday 30 January 2006 - 22:39:19

NIST.org reviews free Virus and Malware scanner
VirusTotal.com provides a completely free service that scans files you upload for viruses, spyware and other malware. The site doesn't require regist...
Posted on Monday 19 December 2005 - 21:50:32

Commercial spyware using rootkit techniques to avoid removal
...ht technology has exposed is installed by Apropos spyware, which plagues users with popup windows. "The reason for Apropos to use rootkit techniq...
Posted on Friday 16 December 2005 - 10:54:45

Spyware now represents over 66% of all malicious software threats
According to the 2005 Security Threat Management Report from antivirus software company Sophos PLC spyware is now the biggest malicious software theat...
Posted on Wednesday 07 December 2005 - 20:26:45

Review of Secunia's “Software Inspector” - Detects Insecure Application Versions
... Scanning is free and the scanner installs no spyware, adware, or anything permanent on your computer. Secunia is a well respected security compan...
Posted on Wednesday 24 January 2007 - 16:47:34

2nd 0-day MS Explorer / Outlook Exploit in the Wild (VML Buffer Overflow)
...t in the wild. It is currently being used to push spyware and to create botnet zombies. This is the 2nd 0day IE exploit so far this month. Rated Extre...
Posted on Thursday 21 September 2006 - 14:52:39

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