Ad Violations: Why Search Engines Won’t Display Your Site If it’s Infected With Malware
David Dede As your website’s webmaster have you ever seen an e-mail from Google like this?: Hello, We wanted to alert you that one of your sites…
Many Pieces of a Puzzle: Target, Neiman Marcus and Website Hacking
Corporations get hacked all the time. This is not news to anyone in the security business, but it has certainly received a lot of attention…
Security Issue on vBulletin uploader.swf
The vBulletin team recently disclosed a XSS (cross site scripting) vulnerability in the uploader.swf file that is included by default on vBulletin 4 and 5.…
Zero Day Vulnerability in OpenX Source 2.8.11 and Revive Adserver 3.0.1
If you are using OpenX or the new Revive Adserver (fork of OpenX), you need to update it ASAP. Florian Sander discovered a serious SQL…
Server Update Time: OpenSSH Vulnerability Disclosed
The OpenSSH team just released a security advisory about a vulnerability affecting both OpenSSH 6.2 and 6.3. If you are not familiar with OpenSSH, it’s…
New WordPress and Joomla Updates Available
If you are a WordPress or Joomla user, you better start updating your sites now. Joomla 2.5.14 Joomla 2.5.14 was released containing some critical security…
Ubuntu Forums Hacked
Ubuntu’s official forum web site (ubuntuforums.org) was hacked, defaced and all user names and passwords stolen. The forum was very popular with over 1.8 million…
Globo.com redirecting users to Spam ads
Globo.com, one of the largest Brazilian web portals (ranked #107 on Alexa and #6 for Brazilian traffic) appears to be compromised and all visits to…
Malaysian Election and DDOS
Malaysia is having an election this weekend that has been surrounded by issues. We won’t go into the politics, but one of our client’s sites…
Joomla 2.5.8 and 3.0.2 Released (Security Updates)
Joomla 2.5.8 and 3.0.2 were just released today fixing a medium severity security bug related to a clickjacking/XSS vulnerability. You can find more details on…
New Google Chrome Blacklist Warning for Macs
If you go to a site that is Blacklisted by Google, you will see a new (and prettier) malware warning now if you are using…