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| Nigerian scam tops list of decade's online cons | Thu, Sep 2 10:16 AM |
| Notices of winning the lottery and requests from Russian women who want to know you better are also up there on Panda Security's ranking of decade's top Net swindles. | CNET News.com |
| India wants local servers from RIM, Google, Skype | Thu, Sep 2 09:45 AM |
| India plans to ask the three companies to set up local servers in the country so that security agencies can monitor customer communications. | CNET News.com |
| Botnet Takedown May Yield Valuable Data
(PC World)
| Thu, Sep 2 03:40 AM |
| PC World - Researchers are hoping to get a better insight on botnets after taking down part of Pushdo, one of the top five networks of hacked computers responsible for most of the world's spam. | Yahoo! News: Security News |
| Botnet takedown may yield valuable data | Thu, Sep 2 03:25 AM |
| Researchers are hoping to get a better insight on botnets after taking down part of Pushdo, one of the top five networks of hacked computers responsible for most of the world's spam. | Computerworld Security News |
| Widespread phishing campaign lures McDonald's fans with cash offer | Thu, Sep 2 02:43 AM |
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Filet-o-phish? Sophos warns computer users not to complete survey.
| Sophos security news |
| Twitter plans to record all links clicked | Wed, Sep 1 11:33 PM |
| In a move that could raise privacy concerns, the microblogging site said Wednesday evening that it will record and analyze every link users click on when using its Web site or any of the thousands of third-party apps. | CNET News.com |
| China requires cell phone subscriber IDs | Wed, Sep 1 04:40 PM |
| New subscribers are asked for identification and existing subscribers are being encouraged to register their IDs with their numbers in what the Chinese government calls a crackdown on spam and fraud. | CNET News.com |
| 3Par faces lawsuit as bidding war continues | Wed, Sep 1 04:04 PM |
| 3Par, which is already the subject of a bidding war between Hewlett-Packard and Dell, is now among a group of companies being sued by Crossroads Systems for patent infringement. | Computerworld Security News |
| Discover to get $5M from Heartland for '08 data breach | Wed, Sep 1 02:45 PM |
| Heartland Payment Systems has agreed to pay $5 million to Discover to settle claims arising from the massive data breach disclosed by the payment processor last year. | Computerworld Security News |
| DARPA launches insider threat detection effort for military | Wed, Sep 1 02:03 PM |
| The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched an effort aimed at finding and detecting to insider threats on Department of Defense networks. | Computerworld Security News |
| Miami man pleads guilty in ID theft case | Wed, Sep 1 01:41 PM |
| A Miami man has pleaded guilty to two identity-theft related charges after federal agents found more than 26,000 credit card numbers stored on his computer, the U.S. Department of Justice said. | Computerworld Security News |
| FCC must make ISPs crack down on spammers and malware | Wed, Sep 1 11:06 AM |
| The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking for help in developing a "Cybersecurity Roadmap," an ambitious plan to identify dangerous vulnerabilities in the Internet infrastructure, as well as threats to consumers, businesses and governments. | Computerworld Security News |
| Quantum crypto cracked, researchers say | Wed, Sep 1 10:48 AM |
| Researchers claim to have cracked the quantum cryptography equipment used to cloak highly sensitive communications by banks and defense agencies. | CNET News.com |
| Sweden reopens rape probe of Wikileaks founder | Wed, Sep 1 09:35 AM |
| After dropping a rape case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange last month, Sweden is reopening it for further investigation, according to reports. | CNET News.com |
| Cars: The next hacking frontier? | Tue, Aug 31 11:07 AM |
| Efforts to make autos safer and more energy efficient with embedded computers and wireless technologies are also increasing security risks, experts say. | CNET News.com |
| Huge Spamming Botnet Injured but Still Alive
(PC World)
| Tue, Aug 31 08:40 AM |
| PC World - A botnet responsible for a significant amount of spam has been crippled but may reconstitute itself in a matter of weeks, according to vendor M86 Security. | Yahoo! News: Security News |
| Symantec 'Black Market' Event Highlights Perils of Cybercrime
(PC Magazine)
| Tue, Aug 31 06:20 AM |
| PC Magazine - On September 1, New Yorkers will have a chance to peer inside the sleazy world of cybercrime when the "Norton Black Market Experience" rolls in to Times Square via a converted semi truck. | Yahoo! News: Security News |
| Jordan amends cyber crimes law after media outcry
(AFP)
| Sun, Aug 29 10:49 AM |
 AFP - Jordan on Sunday approved a temporary law on cyber crimes after amending it to appease the fury of journalists who said the legislation was a means to control local news websites.
| Yahoo! News: Security News |
| Hackers attack Philippine government website
(AFP)
| Sun, Aug 29 09:15 AM |
 AFP - The Philippines on Sunday ordered all government offices to tighten Internet security after its main information website was brought down by hackers.
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| Ubuntu: 982-1: Wget vulnerability | Thu, Sep 2 02:52 AM |
| LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that Wget would use filenames provided by the server whenfollowing 3xx redirects. If a user or automated system were tricked intodownloading a file from a malicious site, a remote attacker could createthe file with an arbitrary name (e.g. .wgetrc), and possibly run arbitrarycode. [More...] | LinuxSecurity.com - Security Advisories |
| Mandriva: 2010:168: openssl
| Wed, Sep 1 06:30 AM |
| LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability has been found and corrected in openssl:
Double free vulnerability in the ssl3_get_key_exchange function in
the OpenSSL client (ssl/s3_clnt.c) in OpenSSL 1.0.0a, 0.9.8, 0.9.7,
and possibly other versions, when using ECDH, allows context-dependent
[More...] | LinuxSecurity.com - Security Advisories |
| SuSE: 2010-036: kernel | Wed, Sep 1 01:04 AM |
| LinuxSecurity.com: This update fixes various security issues and some bugs in the SUSE Linux Enterprise 9 kernel. Following security issues were fixed: CVE-2010-2521: A crafted NFS write request might have caused a buffer overwrite, [More...] | LinuxSecurity.com - Security Advisories |
| Mandriva: 2010:167: perl-libwww-perl
| Tue, Aug 31 01:24 PM |
| LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability has been found and corrected in perl-libwww-perl:
lwp-download in libwww-perl before 5.835 does not reject downloads to
filenames that begin with a . (dot) character, which allows remote
servers to create or overwrite files via (1) a 3xx redirect to a
[More...] | LinuxSecurity.com - Security Advisories |
| Debian: 2101-1: wireshark: Multiple vulnerabilities | Tue, Aug 31 10:29 AM |
| LinuxSecurity.com: Several implementation errors in the dissector of the Wireshark network traffic analyzer for the ASN.1 BER protocol and in the SigComp Universal Decompressor Virtual Machine may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. [More...] | LinuxSecurity.com - Security Advisories |
| Mandriva: 2010:166: libgdiplus
| Tue, Aug 31 07:00 AM |
| LinuxSecurity.com: A vulnerability has been found and corrected in libgdiplus:
Multiple integer overflows in libgdiplus 2.6.7, as used in Mono,
allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) a crafted TIFF
file, related to the gdip_load_tiff_image function in tiffcodec.c;
[More...] | LinuxSecurity.com - Security Advisories |
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| Responding to a Brute Force SSH Attack | SecurityFocus News |
| Infocus: Data Recovery on Linux and ext3 | |
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| Vuln: phpMyAdmin Debug Backtrace Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability | Thu, Sep 2 12:00 AM |
| phpMyAdmin Debug Backtrace Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability | SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities |
| Vuln: PDF-XChange Viewer 'wintab32.dll' DLL Loading Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability | Thu, Sep 2 12:00 AM |
| PDF-XChange Viewer 'wintab32.dll' DLL Loading Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability | SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities |
| Vuln: Apple QuickTime FlashPix Encoded File 'NumberOfTiles' Remote Integer Overflow Vulnerability | Thu, Sep 2 12:00 AM |
| Apple QuickTime FlashPix Encoded File 'NumberOfTiles' Remote Integer Overflow Vulnerability | SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities |
| Vuln: Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9 DLL Loading Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability | Thu, Sep 2 12:00 AM |
| Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9 DLL Loading Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability | SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities |
| Bugtraq: {PRL} Novell Netware OpenSSH Remote Stack Overflow | |
| {PRL} Novell Netware OpenSSH Remote Stack Overflow | SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities |
| Bugtraq: Vulnerabilities in CMS WebManager-Pro | |
| Vulnerabilities in CMS WebManager-Pro | SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities |
| Bugtraq: [ MDVSA-2010:169 ] mozilla-thunderbird | |
| [ MDVSA-2010:169 ] mozilla-thunderbird | SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities |
| Bugtraq: [USN-982-1] Wget vulnerability | |
| [USN-982-1] Wget vulnerability | SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities |
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