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New Worm Spreads by RDP Brute Force Security researchers from F-Secure warn about a new computer worm which attempts to brute force connections over the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).RDP was developed by Microsoft to allow the remote administration of computers via a graphical interface. The technology is present, with limitations in some cases, in all...	29 August 2011 05:41 GMT

New Router-Infecting Trojan Identified Security researchers warn of a new trojan that infects home routers by performing brute force attacks against their administration interfaces.According to security vendor Trend Micro, the trojan is predominantly found in Latin America, which is also possibly where it originated.It functions as an .ELF file, an execut...	10 March 2011 13:49 GMT

Compromised Web Servers Used to Build SSH Brute Force Botnet There are strong indications that unidentified hackers are currently building a botnet, possibly by exploiting a vulnerability in outdated phpMyAdmin installations, and are using it to launch SSH brute force attacks.Apparently more and more Web server owners are finding instances of an unauthorized script called dd_s...	11 August 2010 13:55 GMT

Information of Over 100 Million Facebook Users Available for Download A security researcher has crawled Facebook's people directory to gather information on users who left their profiles publicly accessible. The data is available for download as a 2.8 GB torrent and can be used to enhance brute force hacking tools.Facebook's public directory lists the names of people who allo...	29 July 2010 11:19 GMT

Spammers Brute-Force Yahoo Back Door A security researcher has exposed a vulnerable Yahoo Web service that has been abused by spammers to enumerate valid Yahoo! IDs or brute-force login credentials for years. The attacks are possible because the company failed to apply the same security checks to the API as it did to the webmail interface. Ryan Barnett...	21 September 2009 07:10 GMT

Feasible Client-Side CSRF Token Brute Force Attack Revealed An application security researcher has devised a proof-of-concept attack capable of bypassing commonly used cross-site request forgery (CSRF) protections, such as assigning random tokens associated with the session. The complete attack leverages on an older technique of searching the browser's history via CSS. ...	20 July 2009 06:50 GMT

PDF Passwords 100 Times Less Secure in Acrobat 9 Password recovery vendor ElcomSoft claims that its software can crack PDF passwords in Acrobat 9 a hundred times faster than in previous versions. Adobe agrees that optimizations brought to the opening time of PDF files in version 9 of its Acrobat product could decrease the time required to brute force weak passwords...	3 December 2008 12:06 GMT

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