Monthly Archives: July 2011
Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities in Elgg <= 1.7.9
New vulnerability has been discovered in Elgg an open-source application that helps to create social networking engine, delivering the building blocks that enable businesses, schools, universities and associations to create their own fully-featured social networks and applications. Well-known Organizations with
Hacking Military Chips Encryption By Side-Channel Attacks
New demonstration have been made by German researchers that allow attacking Chips encryption mechanism, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) processors used in embedded systems at military and aerospace industries, are vulnerable to attacks based on an analysis of the energy
Wireshark 1.6.1 Malformed IKE Packet DoS
New vulnerability have been discovered in Wireshark 1.6.1 that affects IKEv1 protocol function proto_tree_add_item() this bug allow to conduct a denial of service attack. This is not the first vulnerability that has been discovered lately in wireshark as in the
CloseTheDoor- Detect Network Security Holes
Remote backdoors is ways that are used by hackers to maintain access on the compromised systems. Types of remote backdoors generally fall into three categories: Network Socket Listener, Trojan, or covert channels. Here there is an opensource tool that is
‘ika-tako’ Virus Creator Gets Jail Sentence
The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday has sentenced malware editor with two years and six months in prison. Masato Nakatsuiji was found responsible for writing a malicious program, which last summer has spread to the locally popular peer to peer
OSForensics – Digital investigations faster
Every organization is faced by cyber-crime this makes it not surprising that utilities for investigating incidents are rapidly developing. These tools are focused on reviewing temporary file browser that can tell a lot about user activity, search hard disk for
