What happens when you read a response?

There's a bit of disagreement over the behaviour of requests and responses in the fetch API, curious to know what you think… Setting the scene The new fetch API gives the web proper Request and Response primitives. fetch'/whatever'.thenfunctionresponse return response.body.asJSON; .thenfunctionda...

Dradis v2.9 - Information Sharing For Security Assessments

Dradis is an open source framework to enable effective information sharing, specially during security assessments. It’s a tool specifically to help in the process of penetration testing. Penetration testing is about information: 1. Information discovery 2. Exploit useful information 3. Report the...

Upload vulnerability science[1]-The file upload form is Web Security the main threat-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In order to allow the end user to upload files to your website, just like Is to compromise your server for a malicious user to open another door. Even so, in today's modern Internet Web applications, it is a common requirement, because it helps to improve your business efficiency. On Facebook and...

[PACK] Password Analysis & Cracking Kit

PACK Password Analysis and Cracking Toolkit is a collection of utilities developed to aid in analysis of password lists in order to enhance password cracking through pattern detection of masks, rules, character-sets and other password characteristics. The toolkit generates valid input files for...

[SSLSmart] Smart SSL Cipher Enumeration

SSLSmart is a highly flexible and interactive tool aimed at improving efficiency and reducing false positives during SSL testing. A number of tools allow users to test for supported SSL ciphers suites, but most only provide testers with a fixed set of cipher suites. Further testing is performed b...

Patch Efficiently with Automated Patch Management

You've got to ask yourself one question. How much hassle does patching cause you? Is the second Tuesday of each month something you dread, or is it just another day for you? If you spend days and days testing and deploying patches; if you stay up until the wee hours of the morning one weekend eac...

[Bluelog v1.1.1] Simple Bluetooth Scanner

Bluelog is a simple Bluetooth scanner designed to tell you how many discoverable devices there are in an area as quickly as possible. It is intended to be used as a site survey tool, identifying the number of possible Bluetooth targets there are in the surrounding environment. Changelog v1.1.1...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: libwebp-0.2.1-1.fc17

WebP is an image format that does lossy compression of digital photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on VP8, and a container based on RIFF. Webmasters, web developers and browser developers can use WebP to compress, archive and distribute digital images more efficiently...

CentOS Update for tomcat5 CESA-2012:0474 centos5

Check for the Version of tomcat5 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for tomcat5 CESA-2012:0474 centos5 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under...

Microsoft Adopts CVRF Format for Security Bulletins

Since the beginning of recorded time, security researchers, software vendors and hackers have been issuing security advisories in all kinds of nutty formats. Some feature excellent ASCII art, some have clever inside jokes and some come from Microsoft. Now, there’s a effort underway, called the...

Tenable Release Nessus 5.0 vulnerability scanner

Tenable Release Nessus 5.0 vulnerability scanner Tenable Network Security announced Nessus 5.0 vulnerability and configuration assessment solution for enterprises and security professionals. Nessus version 5.0 introduces key features and improvements, separated into the four major phases of the...

A Doomsday Worm - The Sputnik of 2011

We had an Interesting Article by "Paul F Renda " in our The Hacker News Magazine's November Edition. We would Like to share this article with our website readers also. You can Download November Issue Here. This is a theoretical prima to bring out a discussion about whether an Internet doomsday wo...

DarkComet-RAT v4.0 Fix1 Released - Fully Cryptable

DarkComet-RAT v4.0 Fix1 Released - Fully Cryptable DarkComet-RAT v4.0 Change log - DarkComet-RAT is now compiled on Delphi XE instead of Delphi 2010. - Synthax highlighter added in remote keylogger. - Multithreading is now more efficient, no more freezing, using a new powerfull and stable...

[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: jabberd-2.2.11-4.fc13

The jabberd project aims to provide an open-source server implementation of the Jabber protocols for instant messaging and XML routing. The goal of this project is to provide a scalable, reliable, efficient and extensible server that provides a complete set of features and is up to date with the...

Kanpur police face difficulty operating Facebook account !

In view of the difficulty faced by policemen in operating the newly opened Facebook accounts of police stations here, a workshop would be conducted to make them more computer savy and efficient in handling online services. "Although the police stations have opened Facebook accounts, the station...

With the FindBugs code analysis vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Static analysis tools promise without developer effort will be able to find out the code has some defects. Of course, if you have years of writing experience, you will know that these promises are not necessarily fulfilled. Nevertheless, a good static analysis tool is still in the Toolbox...

Vulnerability Broker Draws Line in Disclosure Sand

Looking to put pressure on software vendors who procrastinate on fixing security flaws, the world’s biggest broker of vulnerability data is drawing a line in the sand. Starting August 4, TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative ZDI will enforce a six-month deadline for patches on all vulnerabilities...

VERITAS Storage Exec and StorageCentral DCOM Server Buffer Overflow (CVE-2005-2996)

The VERITAS Storage Exec and StorageCentral products automate storage management in order to optimize storage efficiency. The products are capable of automating numerous tasks with regard to disk management. User-based and directory-based quotas may also be imposed with the help of the products...

Voice Authentication Gets Research Boost

North Carolina state researchers have modified existing speech authentication computer models and have streamlined the process so that it operates more efficiently. Read the full article. ScienceDaily...

Real World Security – Larry Whiteside Interview

Like every other security executive in the health care industry, Larry Whiteside, CISO of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, spends much of his time dealing with compliance-related issues. But the distributed nature of his user population means that he has sensitive patient data on thousands...