Publishers Blame Spam On Stolen Lists
News But hackers targeting servers just for their mailing lists is a novelty, said Jason Catlett, president of Junkbusters. MarketingSherpa.com, a publisher of online marketing newsletters, suspects that all eight of its mailing lists have been...
[September 12, 2002, 7:55]
Hackers Force Debian Linux Sites Offline
News Attackers compromised four servers, including those responsible for maintaining the project's bug tracking system, mailing lists, Web, Common Versioning System (CVS), security downloads and others. The compromise was revealed in a posting to the...
[November 24, 2003, 8:35]
Developers Respond To KDE 4 Backlash
News The resulting software has been criticised by users on open-source mailing lists for its lack of features and customisability, bugs and usability problems. For example, KDE 4 will be used in version 10 of Red Hat's Fedora distribution, because of...
[July 14, 2008, 13:21]
Microsoft Patches Bofra
News The patch arrived more than a month after news of the vulnerability was first posted on public security mailing lists. Microsoft published a patch for Internet Explorer on Wednesday, aiming to close a month-old hole that has been used to spread...
[December 2, 2004, 7:15]
Remote Tool Attacks Windows Servers
News Files left behind on a compromised server by the worm were posted to a security mailing list. A week ago, hackers from the Chinese X-Focus security group publicly posted a program to several security lists designed to allow an intruder to use the...
[August 4, 2003, 8:55]
Inbox Menace - Bugbear
News The Bugbear/Tanatos mass-mailing worm takes advantage of a vulnerability so well known that Microsoft released a patch to fix it a year ago. The worm uses its own SMTP engine and addresses harvested from the infected system's databases to generate...
[October 10, 2002, 13:01]
Code Leak Reveals Old IE Flaw
News A security researcher, who only identified himself by the initials "gta," posted information on the vulnerability to several security mailing lists. The vulnerability, which affects only Internet Explorer 5.01, could allow attackers to set up faux...
[February 18, 2004, 7:35]
Researcher Discovers OpenSSH Flaw
News Information about the vulnerability has also been posted on security mailing lists such as BugTraq and Debian. This can result in a remote denial-of-service attack on the OpenSSH daemon or a complete remote compromise.
[June 27, 2002, 9:24]
Debian Team Confirm Linux Flaw Allowed Attack
News The systems -- known as Master, Murphy, Gluck and Klecker -- had maintained the open-source project's bug tracking system, source code database, mailing lists, Web site and security patches. The Debian Project warned on Monday that a flaw in the...
[December 2, 2003, 10:15]
