Fasthosts primes another password reset
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Third time's the charm Punch drunk Fasthosts customers are set to be hit with a third compulsory password reset next week, as the budget web hosting company scrambles to cope with a major security breach.â¦
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Fixes made for "critical" JavaScript vulnerability in the Firefox browser and the SeaMonkey application suite.
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Names, addresses and phone numbers also at risk Layered Technologies has been targeted by malicious hackers who may have stolen passwords and other personal details on as many as 6,000 of its clients, the Texas-based web host provider warned. It is advising customers to change login credentials for all host details submitted in the past two years.â¦
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Where's the fire? Fasthosts, the UK's largest web hosting company, suffered a four hour outage to its service yesterday evening.â¦
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Startup FastSoft is shipping an appliance for speeding up IP WAN links that requires customers to install just one box per connection rather than two, which is the more standard approach.
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The domain registrar and hosting firm reports disrupted service Sunday from distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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What a difference an "8" makes Customers of the Los Angeles-based web hosting provider Dreamhost awoke to an unwelcome pang in their wallets today. A late-night accounting cock-up caused every customer to be charged a year's worth of truant payments when the wrong date was slipped in its automated billing program.â¦
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Company patches one search engine security flaw and is notified of another.
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Domains of several new phishing sites are cropping up with known Storm worm domains. F-Secure researchers think phishers are leasing parts of the larger botnet.
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Microsoft will patch a flaw in the Windows operating system Tuesday that could give attackers access to passwords on a victim&#39;s system, according to security vendor SkyRecon Systems.&quot;During our ongoing research into the Windows LPC (Local Procedure Call) interface, we found an important vulnerability which could be used to gain elevated privilege and then execute code in the LSASS process,&quot; SkyRecon said in a statement e-mailed to IDG News.The flaw will be patched in&#160;Microsoft&#39;s upcoming set of security patches, set to be released around 11 a.m. Pacific time Tuesday, the company said.The LSASS (Local Security Authority Subsystem Service) process is used by Windows to manage account credentials in Windows. A LSASS bug was famously exploited by the Sasser worm in 2004, but this latest flaw appears to be far less serious.That&#39;s because, unlike the Sasser vulnerability, this bug does not allow a remote attacker to run unauthorized software on a victim&#39;s computer. &quot;If the vulnerability is exploited, there is a potential for saved passwords to be accessed by users that did not originally posses the proper credentials to access this sensitive information,&quot; SkyRecon said.The flaw affects Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 Server operating systems, and was reported to Microsoft in the last few months, according to SkyRecon, a security software vendor based in Paris.Microsoft&#39;s public relations agency declined to comment on SkyRecon&#39;s alert, but last Thursday the software giant said that it planned to patch an important &quot;local elevation of privilege&quot; flaw that affected these three versions of Windows.Because an attacker would first need to have a way of running software on the victim&#39;s system, the vulnerability is &quot;semi-serious,&quot; said Eric Schultze, chief technology officer with Shavlik Technologies. &quot;Let&#39;s say you are hosting your Web site at an ISP and that ISP keeps many Web sites on that same server,&quot; he said via instant message. &quot;If you can do that, you can upload the exploit, then run it via your Web server... and then access passwords that you shouldn&#39;t be allowed to access.&quot;Microsoft hasn&#39;t said much about the other security update it expects to release tomorrow, except to say that it is a critical bug-fix for Windows Vista and XP users because the vulnerability it fixes could be used by attackers to install unauthorized software on a victim&#39;s computer. This update is rated important for Windows Server 2003 users and considered moderate for Windows 2000.In December, SkyRecon was credited with discovering another elevation of privilege flaw, this one in Windows Vista, that was fixed in Microsoft&#39;s last set of security updates.&#160;
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Human error Ã no backup = whoops Fasthosts, "the UK's number 1 web host", has admitted to a botched update to its mail server that permanently deleted customer emails.â¦
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Gareth Heyes has a new post today talking about one of the vulnerable values in the $_SERVER superglobal - PHP_SELF.   I thought it might be a good idea to gather a few test cases demonstrating the problem. Why PHP allows these URL's is beyond me and it wouldn't take much work to filter out these malicious URL's in the PHP code.   He provides four test cases to show how simple it is to abuse - one using a HTTP header, another pushing XSS through, the third mentions search pages and the fourth a direct code injection.   You can download the code here.
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The July security patches released Tuesday repair a critical Active Directory flaw.
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(InfoWorld) - Usernames and passwords for more than 100 e-mail accounts at embassies and governments worldwide have been posted online. Using the information, anyone can access the accounts that have been compromised. Computer Sweden Â has verified the posted information and spoken to the person who posted them. The posted information includes names of the embassies and governments, addresses to e-mail servers, usernames and passwords. Among the organizations on the list are the foreign ministry of Iran, the Kazakh and Indian embassies in the U.S. and the Russian embassy in Sweden. Freelance security consultant Dan Egerstad posted the information. He spoke openly about the leak when Computer Sweden contacted him. "I did an experiment and came across the information by accident," he said. Egerstad says he never used the information to log in to any of the compromised accounts in order not to break any laws. Computer Sweden confirmed that the login details for at least one of the accounts is correct. Egerstad forwarded an e-mail sent on Aug. 20 by an employee at the Swedish royal court to the Russian embassy. The person who sent the e-mail, in which she declines an invitation to the Russian embassy, has confirmed that she sent the e-mail. "Yes, that is right. We did decline the invitation. As far as I can remember I did send the e-mail," she said. Computer Sweden has not been able to confirm the authenticity of any of the other information that has been posted. "When something like this happens you usually contact people and ask them to fix it. But in this case it felt too big for that, calling to other countries," Egerstad said. Of the compromised accounts, 10 belong to the Kazakh embassy in Russia./p> Around 40 belong to Uzbeki embassies and consulates around the world. Login details for e-mail accounts at the U.K. visa office in Nepal were also posted. Login details for the foreign ministry of Iran, the Kazakh and Indian embassies in the U.S. and the Russian embassy in Sweden were also posted. "I hope this makes them take action. Hopefully, faster than ever before, and I hope they become a bit more aware of security issues," Dan Egerstad says. Computer Sweden has contacted both the Russian and Indian embassies in Stockholm for comment. The Russian embassy confirmed the leaks and says that logins have now been changed. The Indian embassy declined to confirm the information and give comment. Computer Sweden has not published where the login details can be found. The information in this story has been verified by Computer Sweden without using any of the published login details. Computer Sweden is an InfoWorld affiliate.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Just days after Cisco System
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NameDrive weathers DDoS assault Domain name parking service NameDrive restored its services on Friday after coming under a concerted and ferocious denial of service attack from unidentified hackers.â¦
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Service afloat despite floods Fasthosts is fully operational despite the continued flooding problems.â¦