2011

SophosLabs: Microsoft’s Ryan Gavin announced a new strategy to keep the web safe… Keep your Internet Explorer up to date. It is great news for Windows users who don’t appreciate the importance of staying up to date. Microsoft has been struggling with browser stragglers for years. They even ran their own campaign comparing IE 6 to spoiled milk including shameful infopr0n. Old versions of IE leave a considerable number of users vulnerable to old exploits, or in their parlance easy targets. ...

The H-Online: The first patches for the zero-day flaw in Adobe’s Acrobat and Reader applications, which the company confirmed was being exploited in the wild, have been released. The initial problem was caused by a memory corruption when processing Universal 3D (U3D) files, which could allow attackers to potentially take control of an affected system. The patches released also address a newly revealed critical flaw (CVE-2011-4369) which can cause memory corruption when processing Product Representation Compact (PRC) 3D files. ...

SophosLabs: Visa is investigating a potential security breach that may have compromised payment cards of Eastern Europeans. Although Visa hasn’t disclosed which countries were hit, the Romanian state-owned CEC Bank has blocked and reissued 17,000 cards on suspicion that they had been compromised. CEC Bank said in a statement that “a number” of cards issued by banks both in Romania and abroad might have been compromised via an international database. ...

There are so many groups of people in world, we all know that, So many different group and kind of people, we can group them with different factors, with their born location, with their skin color, with their hair color, with eyes color, being left hand or right hand, with their political view, with their religious view and believes, with their education levels, with their languages, with their music tastes and… ...

Hi Folks! I would like to invite you to join my forum, its a small forum for now but by the time it will get better, feel free to join and express yourself in whatever you like, feel free to post whatever you like except advertisement, Thanks! 🙂 forum.omid.dev Thank you for joining in advance -Omid

Oh no! the only thing I did not need happened, my laptop passed away, send me your good wishes! I need to go look if it worth it to repair or better I look for a new PC with just mercy in my wallet.

Hey, I’m feeling tired. My time, is gone today. You flirt with suicide. Sometimes, that’s ok. Do what others say. I’m here, standing hollow. Falling away from me. Falling away from me. _ _ Day, is here fading. That’s when, I would say. I flirt with suicide. Sometimes kill the pain. I can always say. ‘It’s gonna be better tomorrow’. Falling away from me. Falling away from me.

Microsoft Malware Protection Center: Facebook malware attacks are not new. Scams spreading via status updates have been around for a long time, but in recent weeks one threat has been getting creative in terms of social engineering. Backdoor:Win32/Caphaw.A can intercept URL requests in both Firefox and Internet Explorer and it has been observed to post very personable updates on friends’ walls in Facebook, gaining access if the user is logged in. ...

I’m almost 23 years old and I’m not that old that to say much about life and teach you how to live, and maybe I’m wrong in many stuff, so here I write my thoughts and please correct me if you think I’m wrong, all your opinions, positive or negative is welcome: Asking for help is not a good solution: Nobody care about more than yourself, nobody think same way as you, asking for help only will give some info to other people to be able bother you, The reason is that I’ve experienced that situation many many times. ...

…Und der Haifisch, der hat Tränen und die laufen vom Gesicht; doch der Haifisch lebt im Wasser – so die Tränen sieht man nicht…_ …And the shark, that has tears And they run from the face But the shark lives in water So no one can see the tears…_

Hey Folks! From tomorrow my classes in Goethe Institute will begin, 3 days a week (Sa, Mo, We), from 2:00PM to 3:30PM, I hope I will be finishing that with no problem, seems each level takes 16 weeks and there are 16 level in total, so its gonna take 5 years? ah, that’s a long time!, I will be 27 years old!. Have a good day, folks! -Omid

Today’s Tip: Smile Always….

I’ve been bored today and playing random videos and this one made me smile, so I want to share with you 🙂 Have a good times!

The Hacker News: Alexander Fuchs, A German Security Researcher Discover Persistent XSS Vulnerability in Official website of White House. “The petition system is vulnerable. Every Petition i start or join will execute my code. I could join all petitions and my code will be executed on all users who visit the petition system.” He said. Read full story in German: http://www.1337core.de/2011/die-whitehouse-gov-lol-petition/ The XSS Demo is here: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/security/WxgwM7DS Advisory: http://vulnerability-lab.com/get_content.php?id=308 What is XSS? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting