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HTTPS SSL encryption Vulnerable To Crypto Attack The secure sockets layer (SSL) and transport layer security (TLS) encryption protocol, used by millions of websites to secure Web communications via HTTPS, is vulnerable to being decrypted by attackers. Researchers have discovered a serious weakness in virtually all websites protected by the secure sockets layer protocol that allows attackers to silently decrypt data that's passing between a webserver and an end-user browser. Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong say the vulnerability compromises TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.0, the encryption mechanism that secures Web sites accessed using HTTPS (Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol). TLS is the successor to SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and is widely used at financial sites. Companies, including Google, Facebook, and Twitter, are urging the wider use of TLS on the Web. The exploit – demonstrated with a tool called BEAST – targets a flaw that could leave transactions open to attack a...

Pscan 2.0 - multi threaded TCP Syn port scanner TCP Port scanner Multi threaded with possibility to scan 65535. TCP ports on an IP address.You can specify how many threads to run and the timeout. Further more it will tell you the MAC address of the target and the service runningFor LINUX and Windows. Change Log - Added option -s for Syn scan. - Scanning made faster thanks to Syn scan - Added even more default ports - Improved error handler for Syn scan - Improved text output - Fixed minor bugs: - changed pathname to oui.txt and port-numbers.txt files - added missing call to cleanup function WSACleanup Download multi threaded TCP Syn port scanner 2.0

Core Security Technologies victim of latest Hack Core Security Technologies itself become the latest victim of hack by sncope hacker. Hacker deface the websites, Mirror of hack can be seen here . Core Security offers the first and only real-world approach to security testing and measurement, but what if they got hacked ? that really terrific sometime...  More Domains of Core Security Hacked by him:

FBI Arrests Suspected LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers Search warrants were also being executed in New Jersey, Minnesota and Montana. The FBI  arrested two alleged members of the hacking collectives LulzSec and Anonymous on Thursday morning in San Francisco and Phoenix, According to Fox news. The suspected hacker arrested in California is homeless and alleged to have been involved in the hacking of Santa Cruz County government websites. The person arrested in Arizona is a student at a technical university and allegedly participated in the widely publicized hack against Sony. Both groups have been targeted by the FBI and international law enforcement agencies in recent months. Meanwhile, the FBI arrested an alleged Anonymous member in San Francisco. The man, who is reported to be homeless, is said to have been involved in internet attacks against Santa Cruz County government websites.Just because a man is homeless, of course, doesn't mean that he can't get an internet ...

BruCON Agnitio workshop Slides and Video Demonstration - Download Workshop by David Rook ( Security Ninja ) at BruCON 2011 in Belgium. You can Download Slide from here . Required for the Agnitio hands on demos: A 32bit Windows Operating System (XP or 7 preferably – VM will be fine) .NET framework 3.5 installed Agnitio v2.0 installed Download the Pandemobium Android and iOS source code Download the selected vulnerable open source application Optional In addition to the list above the following things are optional depending on how hands on you want to be: Internet connection to download an application from the Android market place Eclipse IDE installed Android SDK installed Android Debug Bridge (adb) installed, this should be installed as part of the SDK install An AVD configured with the Android market place app installed (instructions here) I think you can also use a rooted Android device if you don't want to use the emulator Workshop format A quick look at stati...

Let's Play a Game of Cyber Security at  CSAW CTF 2011   Ready for a little game of capture the flag? What if you weren't running around a field like a crazy person trying to grab a flag out of someone's belt, but instead were navigating around a network overcoming technical challenges to find markers that you are awarded points for once submitted? Then CSAW CTF 2011 is where it's at. CSAW CTF 2011 is hosting the qualifying round from Friday September 23, 2011 to Sunday September 25, 2011. The competition will begin at 8PM that Friday night, and is used to determine who will proceed on to the finals taking place in New York November 10-11 at NYU-Poly.   The event is centered on assessing application security abilities. For the qualification round there is no limit to the number of team members you can have, but if you move on to the final round your team will be limited to four players. If you attend the event you'll have the chance to rub elbows with anyon...

Lilith: Perl script to audit web applications Lilith tool analyses webpages and looks for htmltags , which often refer to dynamic pages that might be subject to SQL injection or other flaws.Lilith basic function is to spider and analyses pages, following hyperlinks, injecting special characters that have a special meaning to any underlying platform. As most of us know web applications scanner can never perform a full 100% correct audit. A manual re-check eliminates most of the false positve. Features and changes made in lilith got rid of many many false positives (that's good) when SQL error is found, it now goes onto next var improved (i hope) scanning engine (anti) coldfusion support better cookie handling and cookie tampering omitted perl HTML::Form limitation better verbose output extensive logging detects directory indexing recursive URL dissection cleaned up this pasta code Download Lilith

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50000 WordPress Sites infected with spam The attack consists of contacting the domain wplinksforwork.com to get a list of links to be displayed on the compromised sites. However, that domain has been down for the last few days and all the sites compromised. These sites supposed to be compromised. Most of the hacked sites had outdated versions of WordPress installed. Infected sites have following message at Footer : Warning: file_get_contents(https://wplinksforwork.com/56132.. 47509328/p.php?host=… failed to open stream: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in ..

Kazakhstan calls for global cyber security treaty to deter hackers at United Nations Today's security professionals - whether they are black hats, white hats or something in between - all have one thing in common: The knowledge of their craft probably did not come from a book or a classroom. Today's security skills - both good and bad - we learn online, in the unstructured jungle of the Internet. President Nursultan Nazarbayev told the debate's opening session – held at United Nations Headquarters in New York – that it was worrying that "not a single international convention or multilateral treaty governs information processes. " Is it not the reason why, in practical terms, most hacker attacks on banks, businesses, government institutions, [the] military and even nuclear facilities have been carried out with impunity? " he asked. Mr. Nazarbayev stressed the need for what he called " an international legal framework of the global information space ." He said suc...

More Android vulnerabilities exposed [Video Demonstration] It's been more than a month since researchers reported two serious security vulnerabilities in Android, but so far there's no indication when they will be purged from the Google-spawned operating system that's the world's most popular smartphone platform. Oberheide and Lanier are set to teach a two-day mobile security training course at SOURCE Barcelona this November where they will presumably refer to this and other Android vulnerabilities. Let's hope, for the sake of Android's reputation, that these things are resolved much sooner. The first vulnerability is known as a " Permission escalation vulnerability ", and allows attackers to install additional " arbitrary applications with arbitrary permissions ", without first asking the user if they want to permit such actions. This would allow attackers to access call records, texts, web browsing history and media stored on the device. The second bug...

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Vulnerability in its Identity Services Engine of Cisco Cisco is warning users of a critical vulnerability ( CVE-2011-3290 ) in its Identity Services Engine (ISE). In its security advisory, the company says that the underlying database used by ISE, its identity and access control policy platform, contains three sets of default credentials that could be exploited by a remote attacker without any end-user interaction. Using these credentials, an attacker could modify the configuration and settings, or even gain complete administrative control of a device. All hardware appliance and software-only versions of Cisco ISE prior to 1.0.4.MR2 are affected.The company says that it will release a free update to the software to address the vulnerability on 30 September 2011; no temporary workaround is available. Once released, the updates will be available to download from the Cisco Software Center. [ Source ]