YouTube hack: No virus, just a XSS flaw - and it's already fixed

YouTube hack: No virus, just a XSS flaw - and it's already fixed


YouTube hack: No virus, just a XSS flaw - and it's already fixed

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 11:50 AM PDT

This Independence Day weekend seemed like the perfect time for hackers to take advantage of a cross-site scripting vulnerability in YouTube's comments to bombard the users with annoying pop-ups that o...

ATM vendors threaten researcher, stop his presentation on ATM flaws

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 10:21 AM PDT

In an unexpected turn of events, a presentation about "The Underground Economy" by Italian white hat hacker and security expert Raoul Chiesa at the Hack In The Box conference held last week in Amsterd...

Twitter Kit, a spammer's dream come true

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 08:47 AM PDT

Cyber criminals and spammers have been (mis)using Twitter for a long time. Twitter has tried to stop or at least limit their use of the platform by defining some Web page limitations regarding the...

XSSer: Automatic tool for pentesting XSS attacks

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 08:25 AM PDT

XSSer is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting XSS injections against different applications. It contains several options to try to bypass...

Botnet viruses invade smartphones

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 07:22 AM PDT

New mobile viruses, disguised as "Free World Cup VOD" and other hot topics, were captured last week by NetQin. More than 500 complaint cases were reported and filed on June 23. Identified as Shad...

Facebook users receiving direct messages from Koobface

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 07:17 AM PDT

Every so often, the Koobface botnet mounts a campaign to increase the number of infected systems, and this latest one employs an already tried tactic. According to Trend Micro, Facebook users recei...

European businesses embrace virtualization and the cloud

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 05:45 AM PDT

European enterprises are embracing the business opportunities offered by virtualizing assets and accessing applications through the cloud, according to new research by Brocade. The research shows t...

Most cyber attacks target the U.S.

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 04:15 AM PDT

SecureWorks announced the findings of a research study that analyzed where the greatest number of attempted cyber attacks were launching from across the globe at its 2,800 clients. India won the st...

Event: BSidesLasVegas 2010

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 03:52 AM PDT

BSidesLasVegas will be held during Black Hat USA 2010 and will offer an alternative for those who prefer the BSides concept of running information security events.

Opera 10.60 tightens security

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 12:16 AM PDT

Opera Software released the final version of the 10.60 browser with several new features, more user security and enhanced stability and is now up to 50 percent faster than the previous version. S...

Week in review: Facebook phishing, virus surge and FBI decryption failure

Posted: 05 Jul 2010 12:11 AM PDT

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: YouTube used to peddle a Facebook password stealer A YouTube account was filled with many videos of random World Cup...

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