Look before you paste from a website to terminal

Wednesday, February 1st, 2017

Most of the time when we see a code snippet online to do something, we often blindly copy paste it to the terminal. Even the tech savy ones just see it on the website before copy pasting. Here is why you shouldn't do this. Source: https://lifepluslinux.blogspot.co.nz/2017/01/look-before-you-paste-from-website-to.html

Zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word under active attack

Monday, March 24th, 2014

Attackers are exploiting a newly discovered vulnerability in Microsoft Word that makes it possible to remotely seize control of computers, the company warned. The in-the-wild attacks work by creating booby-trapped documents in the Rich Text Format (RTF) that exploit a vulnerability in the 2010 version of Microsoft Word, Microsoft warned in ...

FileZilla warns of large malware campaign

Wednesday, January 29th, 2014

Spoofed versions of the popular file transfer program FileZilla that steal data are circulating on third-party websites, the organization behind the software said Tuesday. FileZilla is an open source application, and hackers have taken its source code and modified it in order to try to steal data for more than a ...

New Flash Attack Has No Real ‘Fix’

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Researchers have discovered a new attack that exploits the way browsers operate with Adobe Flash -- and there's no simple patch for it. The attack can occur on Websites that accept user-generated content -- anything from Webmail to social networking sites. An attacker basically takes advantage of the fact that a ...

‘Ardilla’ Automatically Roots Out SQL Injection And XSS, Generates Attacks

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Researchers have built a tool that automatically finds and exploits SQL injection and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Web applications. The so-called Ardilla tool uses a technique developed by the researchers -- MIT's Adam Kiezun, the University of Washington's Michael Ernst, Stanford's Philip Guo, and Syracuse University's Karthick Jayaraman -- that creates ...