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Blackhat Europe, Day 1: The Waag, the Bulldog, and web application hacking

Blackhat Europe, Day 1: The Waag, the Bulldog, and web application hackingCool and usefulCool story! The fact that manual checking finds more flaws than does automated checking is unsurprising, but valuable, as I was unaware of the limited usefulness of the programs. I look forward to revisiting this...

Tags: SECURITY, Waag, web application hacking, BlackHat Europe, Bulldog, Day 1, hacking, Web application

Discussion threads 2008-03-26

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Microsoft's Bing invaded by pharmaceutical scammers

Rogue online pharmacies have found a way to exploit Bing's advertising program. According to a recently released report by KnujOn and LegitScript, 90% of the Bing sponsored pharmacy ads were rogue ones, shipping counterfeit prescription drugs, with the bogus companies participating part of larger affiliate networks like...

Tags: Advertisement, Pharmacy, Microsoft Corp., Scammer, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-08-07

Approximately 800 vulnerabilities discovered in antivirus products

UPDATE: McAfee debunks recent vulnerabilities in AV software research, n.runs restates its position. In what appears to be either a common scenario of "when the security solution ends up the security problem itself", or a product launch basing its strategy on outlining the increasing number of critical vulnerabilities found in...

Tags: Antivirus Product, Antivirus, Vulnerability, Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-07

News to know: Linux galore; Black Hat Europe; Vista reliability; Google and censorship

Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: Microsoft partners with open source Jaspersoft, Sourcesense Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Linux server, client will be big in the cloud and mobile sectors Red Hat CEO: We haven't done a good enough job as an industry leader, or project leader ...

Tags: Black Hat, Google Inc., Mobile, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Semantic Web, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-26

Blackhat Europe, Day 1: The Waag, the Bulldog, and web application hacking

Considering my previous posts on my experiences at Black Hat Federal received pretty good reviews, I thought it would make sense to again highlight a Black Hat trip. This time it was all the way out to Amsterdam, where Rob Carter and I will be speaking about URI Use...

Tags: Black Hat, Web Application, SQL, Training, SQL Injection, Tool, Nate, Productivity, Hacking, Workforce Management, Security, Human Resources, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-03-25

eEye spies new code-exection Windows hole

eEye spies new code-exection Windows holeYOWB - Year of Windows Bugs?NTRyan, don't forget theseHow comes you managed to miss these high risk vulnerabilities?[url=http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464719/30/0/threaded]Mozilla Firefox Insecure Element Stealth Injection Vulnerability[/url]and [url=http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464740/30/0/threaded]Firefox extensions go Evil - Critical Vulnerabilities in Firefox/Firebug[/url]and[url=http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464724/30/0/threaded]High Risk Vulnerability in OpenOffice[/url]I'm sure it was just an oversight...Silent fixes --...

Tags: Web browsers, OpenOffice, SECURITY, Web browser, Firefox/Firebug, vulnerability, Firebug, chrome, flaw, eEye Digital Security, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-04-05

Old Windows kernel flaw comes back to bite

Old Windows kernel flaw comes back to biteMessage has been deleted.Message has been deleted.Clarification. The exploit was developed by Joel Eriksson, Bitsec.The exploit was developed by me (Joel Eriksson, CTO Bitsec) andnot by the immunity research team. It was bought by Immunity andported to CANVAS/MOSDEF by Dave Aitel. We have...

Tags: comment spam attack, Bitsec, spam attack, exploit

Discussion threads 2007-03-12

Think Skype traffic is easily detectable? No it's not, expert tester says

Think Skype traffic is easily detectable? No it's not, expert tester saysNo problemBe an FBI agent with a subpoena, and the magic back door opens . . .Hasn't it already been reverse engineered?Not sure if this presentation from Black Hat is still relevant, but it did outline ideas dor detecting...

Tags: Federal government, Skype Technologies S.A., FBI, expert tester

Discussion threads 2006-04-20

If you are thinking about Skype in your enterprise, YOU MUST read this first

Earlier this month at BlackHat Europe, a couple of French researchers (one person's "researcher" is another person's "hacker") released a white paper entitled "Silver Needle In The Skype."The 115-page PDF document lists Skype security and access difficulties, and how they might be fixed.There's quite a list. I will illustrate the...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.

Blog posts 2006-03-24

Apple patches 20 security holes

Apple patches 20 security holesSo here's the quizHow many of those are OS flaws?Relevance??George, What's the relevance??? will you also start posting about all the other OS's when they've got an update??????Next week is Patch tuesday, I would expect an anouncement as well!!!!OK OKYou've convinced me - I'm selling my...

Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, security, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, TalkBack

Discussion threads 2006-03-02