Version 8.14.4 of Sendmail, the open source mail transfer agent (MTA),
includes fixes for several security vulnerabilities including some
integer overflows, memory leaks and for the SSL NUL character problem
disclosed in mid 2009. Read the full article. [The H Security]
Despite the fact that the majority of malware exploits use JavaScript to trigger an attack in Adobe’s PDF Reader product, the company says it’s impossible to completely remove JavaScript support without causing major compatibility problems.In a Q&A (listen to podcast) with Threatpost editors Dennis Fisher and Ryan Naraine, Adobe security chief Brad Arkin says the removal of JavaScript support is a non-starter because it’s an integral part of how users do form submissions.
The American Bankers Association and the FBI are advising small and
midsize businesses that conduct financial transactions over the
Internet to dedicate a separate PC used exclusively for online banking as they ahve become targets of banking malware. Read the full article. [The Last Watchdog]
The micro-blogging service rejects 370 passwords when new users sign up if
it thinks they are too easy to guess. However, bloggers recently discovered
that the list of banned passwords is embedded in the source code of the page
itself. Read the full article. [Telegraph UK]
In a proof of concept, researcher Nir Goldshlager demonstrated cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Google Calendar and Twitter that he said could be used to steal cookies and session IDs. Read the full article. [eWEEK]
There is a new, targeted attack that is going after the Adobe Reader and Acrobat zero-day vulnerability that was disclosed last month. The attack uses a sophisticated JavaScript-based exploit that includes shell code that is just 38 bytes long.
MS accepts there is an “inconsistency” in how IIS 6 handles semicolons in
URLs, but it denies that this lends itself to hacking attacks. Read the full article. [The Register]
Notorious hacker Albert Gonzalez pleaded guilty Dec. 29 to conspiracy to hack into the computer networks of Heartland Payment Systems, 7-11 and Hannaford Brothers and faces sentencing between 17 and 25 years on top of his previous guilty plea for the TJX breach and others. Read the full article. [eWEEK]
Dennis Fisher talks with Paul Roberts of The 451 Group about the changes that the last decade has brought in computer security, the biggest story of the ‘00s and what the Teens might hold.
At the 26th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, security researcher Fabian Yamaguchi demonstrated a number
of vulnerabilities that can apparently be found in many average
communication networks and affect all levels from the access layer to
the application layer. Read the full article. [The H Security]
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