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Trojan horse uses unpatched MS Office hole |
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Posted by: Admin on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 02:53 AM |
Microsoft Corp. said today that it's investigating a recently released Trojan horse program that targets a hole in its Microsoft Office software suite that was first identified in April.
Symantec Corp. issued an advisory that the Trojan horse, named Backdoor.Hesive, can arrive as a Microsoft Access file, exploiting a Microsoft Jet Database Engine buffer overflow. The code can allow an unauthorized user access, enabling an intruder to upload files, modify registry values and get system and network information, said Symantec.
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£5,000 prize for hacking VIA security |
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Posted by: Admin on Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 06:21 PM |
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A £5,000 prize was still up for grabs on Thursday afternoon, after no-one managed to crack into VIA Technologies' new StrongBox system. But all could change by the weekend.
VIA has offered the prize to anyone who can successfully break into a system using VIA StrongBox software and PadLock hardware, which is meant to protect against identity theft and the physical loss of data.
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Novell OpenSUSE Server Hacked |
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Posted by: Admin on Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 02:43 PM |
A company server that some workers at Novell apparently used for gaming purposes was hacked into and then used to scan for vulnerable ports on potentially millions of computers worldwide, according to an Internet security consultant.
The scans, which have been going on since Sept. 21, are targeted at TCP Port 22 -- the default port for Secure Shell (SSH) services. SSH programs are used to log into other computers over a network or to execute remote commands and move files between machines in a secure fashion. Scans against the port are often an indication that hackers are looking for vulnerable SSH systems that they can break into and take control of.
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IE flaw puts Windows XP SP2 at risk |
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Posted by: Admin on Friday, September 30, 2005 - 05:01 PM |
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A flaw has been discovered in Internet Explorer that could enable a remote attack on systems running Windows XP with Service Pack 2, eEye Digital Security has warned.
The flaw, which also affects systems running Windows XP, is found in the default installations of Microsoft's IE, according to an advisory released by the security company on Thursday.
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Microsoft probes report of IE flaw |
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Posted by: Admin on Friday, September 30, 2005 - 04:59 PM |
A new flaw in Internet Explorer could be exploited to launch spoof-based attacks, or access and change data on vulnerable PCs, security experts have warned.
The problem lies in the way Microsoft has implemented a JavaScript component in its Web browser, security researcher Amit Klein wrote in a research document. Internet Explorer does not validate some data fields provided by a PC when the component, called XmlHttpRequest, is used, he wrote.
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Google Web Accelerator (GWA) = Highly Invasive Spyware? |
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Posted by: Admin on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - 05:25 PM |
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The new Google application Web Accelerator helps broadband web surfers to surf the web even faster. The Web Accelerator pulls pages from Google's chached database to help the delivery of the pages. Basically your not viewing the site live, just a snapshot of the site.
Google also predicts where the user is going to click, and pre-caches those pages. They use a proprietary alogrithm to determine where the user will click next. The problem then is, what about sites that change everyday such as Freshmeat.net or CNET? Google would have to keep an update copy of every page, on the whole Internet in order to keep up with the demand for this product. The application is a free download.
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Brazilian defacers hack hundreds of Stanford University web sites |
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Posted by: Admin on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - 05:16 PM |
Today a crew of brazilian defacers known as Unknown Core penetrated a server belonging to the university of Stanford and defaced 306 sites.
This group used of a public flaw in the xml-rpc library (which is part of many PHP applications). This flaw was discovered 3 months ago by James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research Team (Note: another critical vulnerability affecting this library has been found some days ago). Some months ago, Unknown Core also defaced the Microsoft Mexico Web site.
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NASA Admin Says Shuttle and ISS are Mistakes |
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Posted by: Admin on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - 05:14 PM |
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"NASA Administrator Michael Griffin was recently interviewed by the USA Today Editorial Board regarding the current direction of the U.S. Space Program, and in the interview he suggested that the past three decades have been a huge mistake and a waste of resources. As a total cost for both programs that has exceeded $250 Billion, you have to wonder what other useful things could have been developed using the same resources. Griffin quoted in the interview regarding if the shuttle had been a mistake "My opinion is that it was... It was a design which was extremely aggressive and just barely possible." Regarding the ISS: "Had the decision been mine, we would not have built the space station we're building in the orbit we're building it in.""
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More Flaws in Firefox Than IE, Symantec Says |
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Posted by: Admin on Tuesday, September 27, 2005 - 03:29 AM |
In its semiannual report about Internet security threats, released last week, IT security vendor Symantec Corp. said the open-source Firefox Web browser had more confirmed vulnerabilities than Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer did in the first six months of the year.
But Symantec and security analysts said the vulnerability data doesn't necessarily mean that Firefox is less secure than its proponents have claimed or that Internet Explorer is a safer browser than many users believe it to be.
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Sophisticated phishing targets Yahoo users |
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Posted by: Admin on Tuesday, September 27, 2005 - 03:27 AM |
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A new phishing method is targeting users of Yahoo Inc.'s Web site by recording their username and password while logging them into a legitimate area of the portal, according to Websense Inc., a Web security software firm.
Users receive an instant message or e-mail purporting to be from a friend wanting to show photos from a vacation or birthday party. The message has a link to the phishing site, which records the user's ID and password while forwarding the user to the real Yahoo Photos site. "It would be difficult for the user to know they'd actually been phished," said Ross Paul, Websense product manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
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WinFS Beta 1 Released Early |
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Posted by: Admin on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 - 11:02 AM |
WinFS Beta 1 has been released. The new relational file system for Windows is posted on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. This release is designed to offer developers a preview of WinFS capabilities. WinFS will be in beta when Windows Vista ships and will RTM afterwords. WinFS, when it ships, will be available for download for Windows Vista and possible support for Windows XP is being considered. The distribution mechanism for WinFS will be through an add-on download much like the .NET framework is today. Tom Rizzo also notes that there is a new blog dedicated to Win FS."
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Chinese military target US military networks, claim |
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Posted by: Admin on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 - 10:56 AM |
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LAST YEAR there were 79,000 attempts to break into US government networks, The Washington Post reported.
Many of the attacks originate from China, but it’s unclear whether they are sponsored by the Communist government.
It quotes an unnamed US insider as saying the problem has been investigated for several years, but it’s difficult to track down exactly where the attacks originate.
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Google Opens Gmail Service to Public |
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Posted by: Admin on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 - 10:53 AM |
When Google unveiled its instant messaging client yesterday, there was only one problem: Google Talk requires a Gmail account, which has been invitation-only since its beta debut in 2004. This changed on Thursday, however, as Google opened Gmail to anyone in the United States with a mobile phone.
The mobile phone requirement was designed to prevent Gmail accounts from being created by robots and stop spammers from signing up multiple times. Google will send an invitation code via SMS, which can then be used to register with Gmail. Only one account may be created per phone number.
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Chinese Websites Used As Launchpads For Cracking |
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Posted by: Admin on Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 11:51 AM |
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An anonymous reader writes "A Washington Post article reports that Chinese networks are being used to breach hundreds of unclassified U.S. government systems. The article goes on to say that some analysts believe the activity to be tied to the Chinese government, although there is also some dissent." From the article: "Whether the attacks constitute a coordinated Chinese government campaign to penetrate U.S. networks and spy on government databanks has divided U.S. analysts. Some in the Pentagon are said to be convinced of official Chinese involvement; others see the electronic probing as the work of other hackers simply using Chinese networks to disguise the origins of the attacks."
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Windows 95 Turns 10 |
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Posted by: Admin on Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 12:25 PM |
"It's hard to believe it, but 10 short years ago today saw the launch of Windows '95. Here is an archive of the Washington Post's story on the day. As part of the launch, Microsoft paid $12,000,000 for the rights to use the Rolling Stones' song "Start Me Up" (containing the prophetic line 'You make a grown man cry'). "
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Google's messenger "Google Talk" launched |
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Posted by: Admin on Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - 11:14 AM |
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Following closely on the heels of its Monday release of Google Desktop 2, Internet search giant Google—whcih si quickly becoming a leading online media company—today launched Google Talk, an instant messaging (IM) solution. Based on the Jabber IM standard, Google Talk can communicate with users of Jabber, iChat, and Trillian, and Google says it will soon open up the tool to users of MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM).
Google Talk is open to the public and is free, without ads, and requires a Gmail user account. Users without a Gmail account will receive one when they sign up for Google Talk, the company says, assuming they don't mind providing Google with their cellphone number in order to prevent people from squatting on valuable email addresses.
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[SM-ANNOUNCE] SquirrelMail 1.4.5 Released |
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Posted by: Admin on Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 12:29 PM |
Security Update
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This version contains a number of security updates that were brought
to our attention via a number of sources.
Several cross site scripting exploits were uncovered by Martijn
Brinkers and have been assigned the CAN-2005-1769.
Another vulnerability was uncovered by James Bercegay, from GulfTech
Security Research, which would allow a user to craft a special page
that might permit them to overwrite other user settings. This has
been assigned the ID CAN-2005-2095.
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Netscape launches version 8.0 |
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Posted by: Admin on Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 09:29 PM |
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Netscape has officially launched the latest version of its browser, Netscape 8.0, according to reports. Although the browser is based on Firefox, it also supports the Internet Explorer engine, and so will be able to render more sites than will Firefox alone. The final version also comes with a heavy emphasis on security, with built-in anti-phishing safeguards. The browser adjusts its security settings automatically, based on a regularly-updated blacklist of dangerous or malicious sites. "The browser is like a hybrid car that combines the usability of Internet Explorer with the security of Firefox," Andrew Weinstein, a spokesman for America Online/Netscape, told Reuters. Recently, Firefox's security message has been slightly tarnished, after a spate of vulnerabilities were identified in the open source browser. It remains to be seen whether this will have an impact on the uptake of the new offering from Netscape. ®
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PHPNuke 7.6 Patched Released |
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Posted by: Admin on Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 09:03 PM |
The latest patch for PHP-Nuke 7.6
Just about all variables have been secured against sql injection by running a check on their content before inserting anything into the database tables and after having extracted anything from them as well, any module that had not been secured before has been included as well as all admin files. Doanload available in Downloads section.
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Beware: virus spreads from Microsoft update |
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Posted by: Admin on Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 08:35 PM |
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Anti-virus experts at Sophos are warning users to be wary of an email campaign currently in circulation which poses as a security update from Microsoft. The email appears to be from Windows Update, and may include subject lines such as "Update your windows machine", "Urgent Windows Update", and "Important Windows Update".
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Wikipedia to be Supported by Yahoo! |
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Posted by: Admin on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 07:29 AM |
Yahoo! has announced it will be offering hardware and various other resources to the Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation behind the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia.org. Wikimedia is a non-profit organisation.
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The Matrix: Coming Soon In Real Life? |
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Posted by: Admin on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 07:28 AM |
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The patent for a device to transmit sensory data directly to the brain has been granted to Sony. It says the technique would be entirely non-invasive and would fire pulses of ultrasound at targeted parts of the brain creating "sensory experiences".
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Microsoft Software Helps Track Child Porn |
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Posted by: Admin on Friday, April 08, 2005 - 07:28 AM |
Microsoft and Canada launched a program to help police track down child porn trafficers by helping police to link information such as credit card sales, chat room messages and arrest records.
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Virus Writers Take Advantage of Tsunami |
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Posted by: Admin on Tuesday, January 18, 2005 - 08:41 PM |
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It looks like a plea for donations for tsunami relief, but it's really a virus. That's just too low for words.
"Virus experts at Sophos have discovered a mass-mailing worm that poses as a plea for donations to help with the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster.
"The W32/VBSun-A worm spreads via email, tempting innocent users into clicking onto its malicious attachment by pretending to be information about how to donate to a tsunami relief effort. However, running the attached file will not only forward the virus to other internet users but can also initiate a denial-of-service attack against a German hacking website."
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Net-Worm.Perl.Santy.a threatens Internet forums |
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Posted by: Admin on Saturday, December 25, 2004 - 12:28 AM |
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management systems, has detected a new worm, Net-Worm.Perl.Santy.a. This worm infects certain web sites by exploiting a vulnerability in phpBB, a popular package used to create Internet forums. Santy.a is spreading rapidly, and has caused an epidemic. However, this does not directly affect end users - although the worm infects web sites, it does not infect computers used to view these sites.
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Polyglot virus is Xmas party pooper |
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Posted by: Admin on Friday, December 17, 2004 - 03:57 PM |
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An email worm which poses as a Christmas greeting began spreading widely yesterday. Zafi-D comes as an infectious attachment to emails written in a variety of different languages, including English, Spanish, Russian, Swedish and Hungarian. Anti-virus firms believe the worm was created in Hungary.
Typically infected emails have subject lines such as 'FW: Merry Christmas', 'Happy HollyDays!' and 'Feliz Navidad!'. Embedded inside each email is a crude animated GIF graphic of two 'smiley' faces. The attachment name is made up of the word "postcard" in the respective language, random numbers and the extension .pif, .cmd, .bat, or .com. Windows users who open the attached file get infected.
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Yahoo SBC filtering port 25 |
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Posted by: Admin on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 07:48 PM |
SBC Internet Services (SBCIS) is taking positive steps to help combat junk email and spam. In addition to network upgrades, free spam filtering and anti-virus software, SBC is implementing outbound SMTP port controls to ensure the SBC network is as reliable as possible for their Members.
SBCIS began filtering Port 25 to separate outbound SMTP mail from dynamic IP mail. Most SBCIS Members already use SBCIS or Yahoo! SMTP mail servers for outbound email and will not be impacted by this filter
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PHPNuke 7.6 released |
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Posted by: Admin on Monday, December 06, 2004 - 05:44 AM |
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PHP-Nuke 7.6 Final version. This version big change is that you can now rename your admin.php file and hide it for security improvement. Several bugs has been fixed, more variables validation added, Forums administration is now compatible with the new modularized administration system, added the inclusion of header, mainfile and footer custom files so you don't loose your custom changes anymore, full support of Mozilla FireFox browser's features and many more. Can be downloaded from downloads section.
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Bill Gates Gets 4 Million E-mails A Day |
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Posted by: Admin on Thursday, November 25, 2004 - 04:43 AM |
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates receives up to 4 million e-mails a day, most of them spam, making him the most spamed person on the planet. The software tycoon has a whole department working to filter out his e-mails from the spam.
The company's chief executive, Steve Ballmer, says one of the reasons that Gates receives so many spam e-mails is because he gives his e-mail out whenever he gives a speech.
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Arafat worm exploits new MS vuln |
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Posted by: Admin on Saturday, November 20, 2004 - 06:17 AM |
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A worm which exploits curiosity about the death of Yasser Arafat is the first to exploit the known Extended MetaFiles vulnerability.
Aler is a network worm that was widely bulk-mailed with the subject "Latest News about Arafat!!!". These infected emails had two attachments, one a clean JPEG file and the other an infected EMF file, according to anti-virus firm F-Secure.
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Use Linux and you will be sued, Ballmer tells governments |
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Posted by: Admin on Saturday, November 20, 2004 - 06:06 AM |
Asian governments using Linux will be sued for IP violations, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said today in Singapore. He did not specify that Microsoft would be the company doing the suing, but it's difficult to read the claim as anything other than a declaration of IP war.
According to a Reuters report (which we fervently hope will produce one of Ballmer's fascinating 'I was misquoted' rebuttals*), Ballmer told Microsoft's Asian Government Leaders Forum that Linux violates more than 228 patents. Come on Steve, don't hold back - what you mean 'more than 228' - 229? 230? Don't pull your punches to soften the blow to the community. "Some day," he continued, "for all countries that are entering the WTO [World Trade Organization], somebody will come and look for money owing to the rights for that intellectual property."
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View/Change Windows & Office XP key |
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Posted by: Admin on Friday, November 12, 2004 - 09:45 AM |
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A very dear friend on ours Imran has coded a software which allows you to change/view your Windows XP and Office XP CD key. The program is called XPKeyFind and can be found in the downloads section. Also Harry-Inc news will be added in your Yahoo messenger. To activate it just goto preferences > content tabs and select SecurityAlertz on your Yahoo messenger.
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Yahoo fake login page |
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Posted by: Admin on Friday, November 12, 2004 - 06:03 AM |
Alot of users Yahoo users have been receiving greetings from unknown people. Dont get too excited as the email is from a hacker. Emails are received in html format showing the url as www.123greetings.combut when you click you click on it it takes you to www.yahoo-us.com
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W3 Compliant Orange theme |
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Posted by: Admin on Saturday, October 30, 2004 - 05:17 AM |
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This is our second w3 compliant theme. This one is orange & white in color and has a beautiful header unlike the previous theme which was pretty simple. Also Google ads are added into the theme itself so you dont need to add any extra block. Google ad will show on every page of your site. Google ads can be removed or edited from the theme.html file. You can get it in the downloads section.
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Downloads on PostNuke.com Target of Hacker |
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Posted by: Admin on Wednesday, October 27, 2004 - 11:26 AM |
An unknown hacker used the exploit on download software pafiledb used on www.Postnuke.com to change the download address of PostNuke-0.750.zip to point to a compromised archive. This is a security compromise of paFileDB and has nothing to do with the PostNuke application.
Note, if you downloaded the tar.gz archive you are not affected so you do nothing, only those who downloaded the zip version were affected and must take immediate action as detailed below.
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New MSN Messenger Worm On The Loose |
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Posted by: Admin on Tuesday, October 12, 2004 - 05:58 AM |
Techweb is reporting that a new worm that spreads via Microsoft's instant messaging client began badgering users Monday, several security firms said
A new worm that spreads via Microsoft's instant messaging client began badgering users Monday, several security firms said.
Dubbed Funner, the worm propagates by sending itself to all the contacts listed in the user's copy of MSN Messenger, Microsoft's IM client.
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Microsoft prepares to kill Linux with different Windows flavours |
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Posted by: Admin on Monday, October 11, 2004 - 06:12 AM |
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Microsoft is developing versions of Windows with only a subset of its code base, designed for specific server tasks. The intention is to reduce maintenance costs and create products that are less vulnerable to attack, and so tackle head-on the threat posed by Linux.
The new "role-based" products may appear in 2007, when the server version of Longhorn is scheduled for release. Offering a smaller code base would mark a significant technical shift for Microsoft and could help address the competitive threat posed by Linux. But it also presents significant engineering challenges for the company, industry analysts said.
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More details on ASP.NET vulnerability |
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Posted by: Cybertrion on Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 07:57 AM |
There has been some confusion with the ASP.NET forms authentication issue and I wanted to clarify some points. First of all, this is really an authorization issue, not an authentication issue. This sounds trivial but the difference helps to understand what's happening here. Authorization is what determines if authentication needs to happen.
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JPEG worm found on Instant Messenger |
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Posted by: Admin on Monday, October 04, 2004 - 06:48 AM |
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Two reports of a worm that spread over AOL's Instant Messenger have been reported to US security body SANS
A worm that exploits the recently discovered JPEG vulnerability has been discovered spreading over AOL's Instant Messenger (IM).
Experts at the SysAdmin Audit Network Security (SANS) Institute said that the worm is still in its infancy as it has only received two reports of infection.
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W3 Valid theme for PostNuke |
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Posted by: Admin on Monday, October 04, 2004 - 04:57 AM |
W3 validation helps for the site to load faster, it helps when it matters of search engine bots and also might help in getting a good PR. I have been searching for sites which has a w3 valid PN theme but to my surprise I found none. I have made a theme myself which is w3 valid, you will need AT lite.8 for this to work. Its easy to adjust the theme as per your own favourite colors. Get it in PostNuke Downloads section.
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Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities |
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Posted by: Admin on Wednesday, September 08, 2004 - 03:44 PM |
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Apple has issued a security update for Mac OS X, which fixes various vulnerabilities.
1) Two vulnerabilities in mod_ssl and apache can potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise a vulnerable system.
These vulnerabilities affect Server versions only.
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PHP-Nuke 7.5 Released |
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Posted by: Admin on Saturday, September 04, 2004 - 11:00 PM |
Advanced Content Management System PHP-Nuke 7.5 Final version is released and available for download. This version includes a totally new modularized administration and multiple administrators management. Several bugs has been fixed, cosmetic changes, some html errors fixed, almost all variables validation added and many more.
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PostNuke .75 Gold Released |
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Posted by: Admin on Friday, September 03, 2004 - 06:15 AM |
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We are pleased to announce the availablity of PostNuke .75 Gold release, a major milestone realized on the road to 1.0.
This release marks the departure from PHP-Nuke based code and provides a solid core foundation as the technical aspects of PostNuke have been defined, i.e., database abstraction, templating system, etc. We see this release as the bridge between the older PN model to the newer model .8 will introduce thus making the transition much easier for most to move up to the latest versions with the least amount of hassle. And as the momentum builds you can expect good things from PN as we move towards the .8 release.
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Dozens maybe listening to your phone calls |
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Posted by: Admin on Friday, August 27, 2004 - 07:27 AM |
iol reports on an investigation run by a local news agency and a talk radio station that while talking on a cellphone using a Vodacom network connection simply by dialing a number via the cell company's customer care service. The discovery was initially found by schoolchildren. The folks being listed to are not aware of the surveillance, and the ones tapping the call are not billed.
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Become a member now. |
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Posted by: Admin on Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - 04:49 AM |
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You can now be a member of SecurityAlertz. Being a member you can add your weblinks, submit news, post in forums, receive emails on latest news/xploits, download files and much more. Forums ar now up so do post whatever you want. You can also post your comments on articles. Please note that registration for email is different from the registration of site. Registration on both is absolutely free.
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Add your links |
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Posted by: Admin on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 - 10:18 AM |
You can add your link & link back this site if you have a website. Click on links under menu to add your link & add our link to your site. You need to regitser before adding links.
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PHP Nuke 7.5 to be released soon |
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Posted by: Admin on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 - 03:47 AM |
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PHP Nuke 7.5 will be released soon. This version has lots of security checks/fixes thanks to chatserv who helped a lot doing a great job. Also, this version will have a new administration system, each module will carry its own admin folder with all the administration functions inside which will give to the modules a completely independent functionality. In fact, the authors administration is now based on installed modules. This is a higly requested feature, required lot of work and in a few days this version will be installed in a test environment.
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XP Service Pack 2: First security flaws found |
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Posted by: Admin on Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 01:21 PM |
Security researchers say they're starting to find flaws in Microsoft's latest major update for Windows XP.
Last week, German company Heise Security announced that two flaws could be used to circumvent the new warnings that Windows XP Service Pack 2, or SP2, normally would display about running untrusted programs, potentially giving a leg up to a would-be intruder's attempts to execute code on a victim's PC.
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New Worm Travels by IM |
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Posted by: Admin on Sunday, August 22, 2004 - 01:19 PM |
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new version of the worm that spread from infected Microsoft Web servers in June has been identified and is using instant messages and infected Web sites in Russia, Uruguay, and the United States to spread itself, according to one security company.
Researchers at PivX Solutions of Newport Beach, California, have intercepted new malicious code closely resembling that from widespread attacks in June attributed to a worm named "Scob" or "Download.ject." The new attacks use mass-distributed instant messages to lure Internet users to Web sites that distribute malicious code similar to Download.ject, says Thor Larholm, senior security researcher at PivX.
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Server Changed |
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Posted by: Admin on Sunday, August 15, 2004 - 02:34 PM |
We have changed our host & thats the reason we were down for a day. Not all the links work as of now, we will try & get the site up 100% in a couple of days. We got huge server space & unlimited bandwidth now ;)
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Yahoo Plugs PNG Security Hole |
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Posted by: Admin on Sunday, August 15, 2004 - 07:15 AM |
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Yahoo Inc. has issued a security update to its popular instant messaging service to fix broader vulnerabilities in an advanced graphics format.
Late on Tuesday, Yahoo posted a security update for its Windows version of Yahoo Messenger to fix a series of vulnerabilities in the PNG (portable network graphics) library, or libpng. The library provides a set of graphics routines for PNG files; PNG is an alternative graphics format to GIF.
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MyDoom's Second Stage Strikes At Microsoft |
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Posted by: Admin on Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - 01:41 PM |
Although the spread of MyDoom.o leveled off Monday night and Tuesday morning, by mid-day Tuesday a second-round attack began by using MyDoom's infected systems to launch a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on Microsoft.com.
But Microsoft's site has weathered the new attack. Web performance meteringfirm AlertSite, for instance, reported that it had seen no problems accessing the site as of 4:00 p.m. EDT. And in an e-mailed statement, a Microsoft spokesperson said it "has taken steps to ensure that Microsoft.com remains available. The network is stable and has been consistently accessible to customers."
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PhpNuke 7.4 Final (patched 2.5) |
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Posted by: Admin on Monday, July 26, 2004 - 01:30 AM |
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PhpNuke 7.4 is available for download in the Downloads section. PHP-Nuke is written 100% in PHP and requires Apache Web server, PHP and a SQL database (MySQL, mSQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC, ODBC_Adabas, Sybase or Interbase). Support for 25 languages, Yahoo like search engine, Comments option in Polls, lot of themes, Ephemerids manager, Headlines, download manager, faq manager, blocks systems, reviews system, newsletter, categorized articles, multilanguage content management and a lot more.
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E-commerce attack imminent |
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Posted by: Admin on Sunday, July 25, 2004 - 02:16 AM |
A surge in Internet scanning activity in the past week could indicate a fresh wave of attacks on e-commerce servers, UK-based Web services company Netcraft warned today.
The firm has detected a surge in scans of port 443, used by Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), a technology designed for securely transmitting financial data such as e-commerce transactions. The surge began on 15 July, the day before the public disclosure of a critical flaw in a server module called mod_ssl.
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Friend Finder |
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Posted by: Admin on Saturday, July 24, 2004 - 05:10 AM |
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New section called FriendFinder will be added to this site soon. Be free to signup for the same. Features include uploading of pics, search, browse, ratings & lots more. A nice place to chill out !!!!
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'Suicidal Osama Bin Laden' recruits a zombie army |
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Posted by: Admin on Saturday, July 24, 2004 - 02:04 AM |
A Trojan horse disguised as CNN pictures of Osama Bin Laden committing suicide is being distributed on the Internet A new way of enticing users to open a Trojan horse called Hackarmy was discovered by antivirus firm Sophos on Friday after it was posted on several Internet news groups.
The message claims to contain pictures taken by CNN journalists of Osama Bin Laden's suicide but, once the file is opened, it installs a Trojan horse that effectively recruits the infected machine into the author's zombie army, which can then be used to distribute spam or launch DDoS attacks.
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All eyes on virus protection at Athens Olympics |
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Posted by: Admin on Friday, July 23, 2004 - 07:41 AM |
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Terrorism isn't the only security threat officials are worried about at this summer's Olympic Games in Athens. They're also concerned about viruses and worm attacks that could cripple the games' data network.
"Our biggest concern is that somebody could intentionally or by mistake infect one of the networks and create severe damage," said Jean Chevallier, executive vice president at Atos Origin, the Paris-based company in charge of building the data and broadcast networks for the Olympic games in Athens. "We don't want any type of traffic incident that could delay the posting of results or slow the network in any way," Chevallier said.
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PhpNuke 7.4 released |
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Posted by: Admin on Thursday, July 22, 2004 - 04:50 PM |
The famous cms PhPNuke released its latest version. This version includes the new phpBB Forums port version 2.10 and several bugs fixed. Many security issues has been fixed, some cosmetic changes in comments and administration panel, some useless modules has been removed, added a new IP Ban system and many more. Additionaly PHP-Nuke version 7.3 has been released for free to the public on the downloads section
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The Korean Overseas Information Service Homepage Hacked |
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Posted by: Admin on Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 03:11 AM |
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While the waves created by the recent hacking of government websites have yet to settle, it has been revealed that the Korean Overseas Information Service (KOIC) also suffered a hacking attack Monday.
Jung Sun-kyun, the head of the KOIC, said Tuesday that, "The Overseas Information Service's homepage was hacked at about 11:30 p.m. Monday and there was trouble getting proper access to the website. Everything was back in normal, however, within two hours."
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Manually Creating a Cookie for PhpNuke |
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Posted by: Admin on Friday, July 16, 2004 - 04:48 AM |
Admin Md5 hash can be obtained by various exploits explained in this site earlier. We have been getting emails asking how to use the Admin Md5 hash to gain access to a Vulnerable PhpNulke site. Heres a tutorial on how to use the Md5 to create a cookie & thus login as Admin.
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