Hacker Summer Camp – Recap of BSidesLV, Black Hat & Defcon

What a week! Hacker summer camp in Vegas was amazing! This was my first time through for all three of the conferences in Vegas - BSidesLV, Black Hat, and Defcon. Ive been to BSidesLV and Defcon plenty of times, but experiencing all of these back-to-back -to-back!, with a bit of overlap gives a...

Yahoo Hires Bob Lord as CISO

Yahoo has filled the vacancy in its CISO office, today announcing the hiring of former Twitter and Rapid7 security executive Bob Lord. Lord starts in his new role Nov. 9. He was most recently Rapid7’s CISO-in-residence; he has spent much of the last two decades in high-profile security positions...

Guest blog: PCI audits and how to recognize a good QSA auditor and partner

Many organizations approach a PCI audit with fear and trepidation. There are a lot of stories out there about how difficult, expensive and disruptive a PCI audit can be, but I want to see if I can add some balance to this view. I believe that when it comes to a PCI auditor it matters a great deal...

Edward Snowden and the Death of Nuance

As the noise and drama surrounding the NSA surveillance leaks and its central character, Edward Snowden, have continued to grow in the last few months, many people and organizations involved in the story have taken great pains to line up on either side of the traitor/hero line regarding Snowden’s...

CVE-2012-5890

The Front End User Registration srfeuserregister extension before 2.6.2 for TYPO3 allows remote attackers to obtain user names and passwords via the 1 edit perspective or 2 autologin feature...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Front End User Registration srfeuserregister extension before 2.6.2 for TYPO3 allows remote attackers to obtain user names and passwords via the 1 edit perspective or 2 autologin feature...

Deeply Flawed Apple-Owned Fingerprint Reader Software a Tough Fix

Now that word is out on a serious password bug in the ubiquitous UPEK Protector Suite fingerprint readers found in most new laptops today, Apple-owned Authentec surely will be able to fix the issue on the double. Not so fast, says one of the researchers looking at the problem. “It’s a system that...

HITB2011KUL - Satellite Telephony Security - Jim Geovedi

Document Title: =============== HITB2011KUL - Satellite Telephony Security - Jim Geovedi References: =========== Download: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/videos/464.wmv View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23FKGifzCJs Release Date: ============= 2012-03-07 Vulnerability Laboratory ID...

Design/Logic Flaw

DISPUTED wp-admin/setup-config.php in the installation component in WordPress 3.3.1 and earlier generates different error messages for requests lacking a dbname parameter depending on whether the MySQL credentials are valid, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct brute-force attack...

Image Perspective Design SQL Injection

x Exploit Title: Image Perspective Design SQL Ýnjection Vulnerability x Date: 31/08/2011 x Author: 3spi0n x HomePage: Http://Www.3spi0n.NET / Facebook.Com/3spi0ne x E-Mail: 3spi0natgmaildotcom | Http://Twitter.Com/RigidusCO x Software Link: http://www.imageperspective.com/ x Category: WebApps x...

Owning Virtual Worlds For Fun and Profit

I’m a security researcher. I find bugs in software, they get fixed. I write exploits, they give me a shell. It’s more or less always the same and it gets kind of boring. But there was one exploit I helped write back in 2007 that was a little different. This is the story of that exploit. Second Li...

Verizon DBIR Cryptography Challenge: Here's The First Clue

So, according to a little birdie tweeting in the night, the 2010 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR contains another encryption challenge that leads to actual cash prizes. Last year, after I dropped a big clue here, Grant Stavely, Chris Eng and others decoded the hidden message on the...

The All-Decade Interview Team

It occurred to me recently that I’ve been covering the security industry for just about 10 years. That’s a long time to be doing anything, and especially to be writing about one topic. But it’s hard to think of something that would have been much more interesting to cover this decade, given the...

gld 1.4 - Postfix Greylisting Daemon Remote Format String

/ 0x82-meOw-linuxerforever - gld 1.4 remote overflow format string exploit. c 2005 Team INetCop Security. Nickname of this code is, Kill two bird with one stone.' or, One shot, two kill!.' hehehe ;-D Advisory URL: http://x82.inetcop.org/h0me/adv1sor1es/INCSA.2005-0x82-026-GLD.txt It's as well as...