Drupal.org Hacked ! More Than 967,000 Registered User Details Compromised

Drupal.org Hacked ! More Than 967,000 Registered User Details Compromised 

Drupal, one of the most famous and widely used open-source content management framework have fallen victim to cyber criminals. The Drupal Security Team and Infrastructure Team has discovered unauthorized access to account information on the official Drupal website and another site called groups.drupal.org. This security breach has exposed user names, country, and email addresses along with hashed passwords of more than 967,000 registered users on the Drupal.org. But still a matter of relief is that the breach failed to infiltrate the credit card details which was stored on the same server. According to security release unauthorized access was made via third-party software installed on the Drupal.org server infrastructure, and was not the result of a vulnerability within Drupal itself. Drupal team have worked with the vendor to confirm it is a known vulnerability and has been publicly disclosed. They are still investigating and will share more detail when it is appropriate. Upon discovering the files during a security audit, the security team has already shut down the association.drupal.org website to mitigate any possible ongoing security issues related to the files. The Drupal Security Team then began forensic evaluations and discovered that user account information had been accessed via this vulnerability. The suspicious files may have exposed profile information like username, email address, hashed password, and country. In addition to resetting your password on Drupal.org, it is also recommending a number of measures (below) for further protection of your information, including, among others, changing or resetting passwords on other sites where you may use similar passwords. 

As a precautionary measure of the said security breach, Drupal Security Team has reset all Drupal.org account holder passwords and are requiring users to reset their passwords at their next login attempt. A user password can be changed at any time by taking the following steps. 

1. Go to https://drupal.org/user/password 
2. Enter your username or email address. 
3. Check your email and follow the link to enter a new password. It can take up to 15 minutes for the password reset email to arrive. If you do not receive the e-mail within 15 minutes, make sure to check your spam folder as well.

Counter Measures that Drupal has Taken to avoid such mishap is something followed- as attacks on high-profile sites (regardless of the software they are running) are common, Drupal strive to continuously improve the security of all Drupal.org sites. To that end, Drupal have taken the following steps to secure the Drupal.org infrastructure:

• Staff at the OSU Open Source Lab (where Drupal.org is hosted) and the Drupal.org infrastructure teams rebuilt production, staging, and development webheads and GRSEC secure kernels were added to most servers
• Drupal is scanning and have not found any additional malicious or dangerous files and making scanning a routine job in their process
• There are many subsites on Drupal.org including older sites for specific events. Drupal created static archives of those sites.

This security breach of Drupal which affected more than 967,000 users is giving us a remind of the decent history of breach where we have seen a slew of attacks against the following sites: Scribd, Guild Wars 2, Gamigo, Blizzard, Yahoo, LinkedIn, eHarmony, Formspring, Android Forums, Gamigo,  Nvidia,Blizzard, Philips, Zynga, VMWare, Adobe,  Twitter  New York Times, Apple and so on. 

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Metasploit 4.2.0 Released With IPv6 Support & Virtualization Target Coverage

Metasploit 4.2.0 Released With IPv6 Support & Virtualization Target Coverage

Earlier we haev discussed many times about one of the most famous and widely used exploitation framework named Metasploit. Yet again the Rapid 7 released another updated version of Metasploit. This update brings Metasploit to version 4.2.0, adding IPv6 support and virtualization target coverage. You'll also notice a new Product News section and update notification for our weekly updates. Since the last major release (4.1.0), added 54 new exploits, 66 new auxiliary modules, 43 new post-exploitation modules, and 18 new payloads. 

Brief About Metasploit:- 

The Metasploit Framework is a penetration testing toolkit, exploit development platform, and research tool. The framework includes hundreds of working remote exploits for a variety of platforms. Payloads, encoders, and nop slide generators can be mixed and matched with exploit modules to solve almost any exploit-related task.

Module Changes:-

•     Novell eDirectory eMBox Unauthenticated File Access

•     JBoss Seam 2 Remote Command Execution

•     NAT-PMP Port Mapper

•     TFTP File Transfer Utility

•     VMWare Power Off Virtual Machine

•     VMWare Power On Virtual Machine

•     VMWare Tag Virtual Machine

•     VMWare Terminate ESX Login Sessions

•     John the Ripper AIX Password Cracker

•     7-Technologies IGSS 9 IGSSdataServer.exe DoS

•     Microsoft IIS FTP Server <= 7.0 LIST Stack Exhaustion

•     DNS and DNSSEC fuzzer

•     CheckPoint Firewall-1 SecuRemote Topology Service Hostname Disclosure

•     CorpWatch Company ID Information Search

•     CorpWatch Company Name Information Search

•     General Electric D20 Password Recovery

•     NAT-PMP External Address Scanner

•     Shodan Search

•     H.323 Version Scanner

•     Drupal Views Module Users Enumeration

•     Ektron CMS400.NET Default Password Scanner

•     Generic HTTP Directory Traversal Utility

•     Microsoft IIS HTTP Internal IP Disclosure

•     Outlook Web App (OWA) Brute Force Utility

•     Squiz Matrix User Enumeration Scanner

•     Sybase Easerver 6.3 Directory Traversal

•     Yaws Web Server Directory Traversal

•     OKI Printer Default Login Credential Scanner

•     MSSQL Schema Dump

•     MYSQL Schema Dump

•     NAT-PMP External Port Scanner

•     pcAnywhere TCP Service Discovery

•     pcAnywhere UDP Service Discovery

•     Postgres Schema Dump

•     SSH Public Key Acceptance Scanner

•     Telnet Service Encyption Key ID Overflow Detection

•     IpSwitch WhatsUp Gold TFTP Directory Traversal

•     VMWare ESX/ESXi Fingerprint Scanner

•     VMWare Authentication Daemon Login Scanner

•     VMWare Authentication Daemon Version Scanner

•     VMWare Enumerate Permissions

•     VMWare Enumerate Active Sessions

•     VMWare Enumerate User Accounts

•     VMWare Enumerate Virtual Machines

•     VMWare Enumerate Host Details

•     VMWare Web Login Scanner

•     VMWare Screenshot Stealer

•     Capture: HTTP JavaScript Keylogger

•     Oracle DB SQL Injection via SYS.DBMS_CDC_SUBSCRIBE.ACTIVATE_SUBSCRIPTION

•     Asterisk Manager Login Utility

•     FreeBSD Telnet Service Encryption Key ID Buffer Overflow

•     Linux BSD-derived Telnet Service Encryption Key ID Buffer Overflow

•     Java Applet Rhino Script Engine Remote Code Execution

•     Family Connections less.php Remote Command Execution

•     Gitorious Arbitrary Command Execution

•     Horde 3.3.12 Backdoor Arbitrary PHP Code Execution

•     OP5 license.php Remote Command Execution

•     OP5 welcome Remote Command Execution

•     Plone and Zope XMLTools Remote Command Execution

•     PmWiki <= 2.2.34 pagelist.php Remote PHP Code Injection Exploit

•     Support Incident Tracker <= 3.65 Remote Command Execution

•     Splunk Search Remote Code Execution

•     Traq admincp/common.php Remote Code Execution

•     vBSEO <= 3.6.0 proc_deutf() Remote PHP Code Injection

•     Mozilla Firefox 3.6.16 mChannel Use-After-Free

•     CTEK SkyRouter 4200 and 4300 Command Execution

•     Adobe Flash Player MP4 SequenceParameterSetNALUnit Buffer Overflow

•     Icona SpA C6 Messenger DownloaderActiveX Control Arbitrary File Download and Execute

•     HP Easy Printer Care XMLCacheMgr Class ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution

•     Viscom Image Viewer CP Pro 8.0/Gold 6.0 ActiveX Control

•     Java MixerSequencer Object GM_Song Structure Handling Vulnerability

•     MS05-054 Microsoft Internet Explorer JavaScript OnLoad Handler Remote Code Execution

•     MS12-004 midiOutPlayNextPolyEvent Heap Overflow

•     Viscom Software Movie Player Pro SDK ActiveX 6.8

•     Adobe Reader U3D Memory Corruption Vulnerability

•     Aviosoft Digital TV Player Professional 1.0 Stack Buffer Overflow

•     BS.Player 2.57 Buffer Overflow

•     CCMPlayer 1.5 m3u Playlist Stack Based Buffer Overflow

•     Free MP3 CD Ripper 1.1 WAV File Stack Buffer Overflow

•     McAfee SaaS MyCioScan ShowReport Remote Command Execution

•     Mini-Stream RM-MP3 Converter v3.1.2.1 PLS File Stack Buffer Overflow

•     MS11-038 Microsoft Office Excel Malformed OBJ Record Handling Overflow

•     Ability Server 2.34 STOR Command Stack Buffer Overflow

•     AbsoluteFTP 1.9.6 - 2.2.10 LIST Command Remote Buffer Overflow

•     Serv-U FTP Server < 4.2 Buffer Overflow

•     HP OpenView Network Node Manager ov.dll _OVBuildPath Buffer Overflow

•     XAMPP WebDAV PHP Upload

•     Avid Media Composer 5.5 - Avid Phonetic Indexer Buffer Overflow

•     Citrix Provisioning Services 5.6 SP1 Streamprocess Opcode 0x40020000 Buffer Overflow

•     HP Diagnostics Server magentservice.exe Overflow

•     StreamDown 6.8.0 Buffer Overflow

•     Wireshark console.lua Pre-Loading Script Execution

•     Oracle Job Scheduler Named Pipe Command Execution

•     SCADA 3S CoDeSys CmpWebServer <= v3.4 SP4 Patch 2 Stack Buffer Overflow

•     Sunway Forcecontrol SNMP NetDBServer.exe Opcode 0x57

•     OpenTFTP SP 1.4 Error Packet Overflow

•     AIX Gather Dump Password Hashes

•     Linux Gather Saved mount.cifs/mount.smbfs Credentials

•     Multi Gather VirtualBox VM Enumeration

•     UNIX Gather .fetchmailrc Credentials

•     Multi Gather VMWare VM Identification

•     UNIX Gather .netrc Credentials

•     Multi Gather Mozilla Thunderbird Signon Credential Collection

•     Multiple Linux / Unix Post Sudo Upgrade Shell

•     Windows Escalate SMB Icon LNK dropper

•     Windows Escalate Get System via Administrator

•     Windows Gather RazorSQL Credentials

•     Windows Gather File and Registry Artifacts Enumeration

•     Windows Gather Enumerate Computers

•     Post Windows Gather Forensics Duqu Registry Check

•     Windows Gather Privileges Enumeration

•     Windows Manage Download and/or Execute

•     Windows Manage Create Shadow Copy

•     Windows Manage List Shadow Copies

•     Windows Manage Mount Shadow Copy

•     Windows Manage Set Shadow Copy Storage Space

•     Windows Manage Get Shadow Copy Storage Info

•     Windows Recon Computer Browser Discovery

•     Windows Recon Resolve Hostname

•     Windows Gather Wireless BSS Info

•     Windows Gather Wireless Current Connection Info

•     Windows Disconnect Wireless Connection

•     Windows Gather Wireless Profile

For additional information click Here. To Download Metasploit version 4.2.0 for windows & Linux click Here.

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Microsoft Azure Cloud Starts Supporting Linux (Hybrid Cloud)

Microsoft Azure Cloud Starts Supporting Linux (Hybrid Cloud)

If you love both Microsoft and Linux parallely then we have a great news for you and that is Microsoft is now offering Linux-based operating systems on its Windows Azure cloud service. The software giant has announced the release of a new preview version of the platform which will add Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) capabilities to it. As well as Windows Server 2008 and the release candidate of Windows Server 2012, Microsoft will be supporting openSUSE 12.1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11, Ubuntu 12.04 and CentOS 6.2 on the Hyper-V virtual machines that power Azure.

Some of the Highlights:- 

• Windows Azure Virtual Machines— Virtual Machines give you application mobility, allowing you to move your virtual hard disks (VHDs) back and forth between on-premises and the cloud.   Migrate existing workloads such as Microsoft SQL Server or Microsoft SharePoint to the cloud, bring your own customized Windows Server or Linux images, or select from a gallery.    As a common virtualization file format, VHD has been adopted by hundreds of vendors and is a freely available specification covered under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise.
• Windows Azure Virtual Network— Virtual Network lets you provision and manage virtual private networks (VPNs) in Windows Azure as well as securely extend on-premises networks into the cloud.  It provides control over network topology, including configuration of IP addresses, routing tables and security policies and uses the industry-standard IPSEC protocol to provide a secure connection between your corporate VPN gateway and Windows Azure. 
• Windows Azure Web Sites —Build web sites and applications with this highly elastic solution supporting .NET, Node.js, and PHP while using common deployment techniques like Git and FTP.  Windows Azure Web Sites will also allow easy deployment of open source applications like WordPress, Joomla!, DotNetNuke, Umbraco, and Drupal to the cloud with a few clicks. 
• New tools, language support, and SDK—Windows Azure SDK June 2012 includes new developer capabilities for writing code against the latest service improvements with updated support for Java, PHP, and .NET, and the addition of Python as a supported language on Windows Azure.  Additionally, the SDK now provides 100% command line support for both Windows and Mac.
• Availability in New Countries— Availability of Windows Azure is being expanded to customers in 48 new countries, including Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa, and Ukraine.  Roll-out will be complete later this month, making Windows Azure one of the most widely available cloud platforms in the industry with offerings in 89 countries and in 19 local currencies.  

These new capabilities simplify building and bringing applications of all kinds to the cloud and enable flexibility in the following areas:

• Increased datacenter capacity through secure VPN connections to the cloud
• Easy operations and management from an improved Windows Azure Management Portal, with powerful operational capabilities for deploying and managing your cloud applications – with similar management support from the command line
• Cloud scale for building websites with ASP.NET, PHP, and Node.js
• Support for additional Operating Systems and OSS language libraries for building cloud applications
• Scale on demand by migrating existing applications to the cloud using portable, industry standard VHDs -- delivering global scale with maximum control
• Secure connectivity between cloud and on-premises applications
• Ability to develop, test and configure new applications in the cloud, and then deploy on-premises for production

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Cupid Media Network Breach Exposes 42 Million Passwords in Plain Text

Cupid Media Network Breach Exposes 42 Million Passwords in Plain Text (Uunencrypted)

Cupid Media one of the leading niche online dating network that have more than 35 large online dating website, faced a massive intrusion that effects more than 42 million of its registered users. From an exclusive report of Kerbs On Security we came to know that the breach was taken earlier in this year. Where the hackers managed to gain access into the crucial servers belongings to Cupid Media network. According to the managing director of Cupid Media, Mr Andrew Bolton - "In January we detected suspicious activity on our network and based upon the information that we had available at the time, we took what we believed to be appropriate actions to notify affected customers and reset passwords for a particular group of user accounts.” After a preliminary investigation it has been found that the purloined database of Australia-based niche dating service Cupid Media was found on the same server where hackers had amassed tens of millions of records stolen from Adobe. More than 42 million peoples' unencrypted names, dates of birth, email addresses and passwords have been found from the pinched database. I am very much wearied to see that a high value site like Cupid is unconcerned about the basic security counter measure. Even their confidential tables remained unencrypted which allows the hacker to gain the personal information in plain text. Like the Cupid Media security team, the registered users also found very much inadvertent and unaware of basic security measures. I am saying this because of the leaked passwords, almost two million picked "123456", and over 1.2 million chose "111111". "iloveyou" and "lovely" both beat out "password", and while 40,000 chose "qwerty", 20,000 chose the bottom row of the keyboard instead - yielding the password "zxcvbnm". 

Jason Hart of famous data protection firm Safenet said "The true impact of the breach is likely to be huge. Yet, if this data had been encrypted in the first place then all hackers would have found is scrambled information, rendering the theft pointless."

This security breach of Cupid Media reminds us  the decent history of breach where we have seen a slew of attacks against the following sites: Drupal.org  Scribd, Guild Wars 2, Gamigo, Blizzard, Yahoo, LinkedIn, eHarmony, Formspring, Android Forums, Gamigo,  Nvidia,Blizzard, Philips, Zynga, VMWare, Adobe,  Twitter,  New York Times, Apple and so on. While covering this story on behalf of VOGH, I am warning our readers across the globe to use strong alphanumeric passwords to avoid such disaster. Also the webmasters and security administrator are highly recommended to use salted encryption in their database to prevent fortuitousness cyber attack. 

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Firefox 4 Supports Content Security Policy

Content Security Policy is a standard developed by Mozilla designed to protect against cross sitescripting (XSS) attacks. Cross site scripting attacks use vulnerabilities in websites to inject JavaScript code into pages or urls of that site. The injected JavaScript code is then executed when visitors open a specifically prepared link or page on the website. Attacks can have serious consequences, it may for instance be possible to steal cookies from users to impersonate them on the site.

Content Security Policy has been in development for quite some time.. The basic idea behind the standard is to give webmasters a tool at hand to whitelist JavaScript, and other objects and files, that may be executed on the site. This implementation blocks all JavaScript code that is executed on the site and not in the list of allowed sites, which means that attackers cannot exploit possible XSS vulnerabilities on the website or server.

A browser supporting CSP ignores code that is not in the whitelist. Browsers who do not support CSP ignore the policy.

Content Security Protection for Users

CSP is currently only supported by Firefox 4, Thunderbird 3.3 and SeaMonkey 2.1. You can test the functionality by visiting this test page.

Twitter recently announced that they have added CSP to their mobile version, accessible under mobile.twitter.com. Users who use one of the aforementioned browsers are protected from XSS attacks on that website.

The engineers on Twitter removed all JavaSCript from code and implemented the CSP header. They then restricted the header to Firefox 4 users and created a rule set to allow JavaScript from their assets. This included the content deliver network used to deliver stylesheets and user profiles.

Unexpected issues were encountered by the developers. They noticed for instance that some Firefox add-ons were inserting JavaScript on page load, which triggered a threat report. The Twitter engineers noticed furthermore that some ISPs inserted JavaScript code or altered image tags for caching reasons.

They managed to resolve those problems by mandating SSL for all Firefox 4 users who access the mobile Twitter web site.

A test with Firebug shows that the mobile version of Twitter is indeed using the policy on site. Please note that Twitter makes a user agent check and is very restrictive about it. Firefox 5 or Firefox 6 users won’t get the policy currently.

Content Security Protection for Webmasters

Webmasters may have some work at hand to add support for CSP to their website. JavaScript code that is directly embedded in documents will not be executed anymore, which has several implications. Webmasters need to move the code to external JavaScript files.

Policies are specified with the X-Content-Security-Policy header. The header X-Content-Security-Policy: allow ‘self’ *.ghacks.net for instance allows JavaScript to be loaded from ghacks.net and all subdomains of ghacks.net.

The using CSP guide on Mozilla offers additional examples on how to set the right headers.

Browsers that do not support CSP ignore the header.

CSP offers two additional forms of protection. It mitigates clickjacking attacks. Clickjacking refers to directing a user’s mouse click to a target on another site. This is often done by using transparent frames on the original website.

Content Security Policy can also be used to mitigate packet sniffing attacks, as it allows the webmaster to specific protocols that are allowed to be used. It is for instance possible to force HTTPS only connections.

The CSP Policy directives are accessible here on Mozilla.

Next to the already mentioned options are parameters to specific hosts where images, media files, objects or fonts may be loaded from.

Plugins are available for WordPress and Drupal that add the policy to supported websites automatically when activated.

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