Q&A: Evercookie Creator Samy Kamkar

Samy Kamkar has been making quite a bit of noise lately, beginning with his release of the Evercookie earlier this month and continuing with his talk at the SecTor conference this week on novel methods for stealing users’ cookies without any browser bugs. In this interview, he discusses both of...

Warning About IDS Evasion Greeted by Chorus of 'Meh'

‘All your IDS are belong to us,’ was the message on Monday, after researchers at networking security equipment vendor Stonesoft announced the discovery of evasion techniques that could be used by sophisticated attackers to bypass network based IDS and IPS. The disclosure raises questions about th...

Achievo 1.4.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Achievo 1.4.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery Advisory Name: Cross Site Request Forgery in Achievo 1.4.3 Internal Cybsec Advisory Id: 2010-08-03 Vulnerability Class: Cross Site Request Forgery Release Date: 2010-Sept-28 Affected Applications: Achievo 1.4.3 other versions may be also vulnerable...

Def Con 18 In Images

Roughly 10,000 computer hacking enthusiasts, poseurs, geeks, nerds and government agents gathered for DefCon this weekend. In its 18th year, the world’s largest hacker convention draws people from all walks of life to learn about the latest hacking techniques. Read the full article. Wired...

SHOPEX Cross Station and CSRF vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Cross-site request forgerycross-site request forgeryis usually abbreviated as CSRF/XSRF, the literal translation for cross-site request forgery, i.e. an attacker by invoking third-party web site the malicious script or use the program to forge a request, of course, not need to the user end disgui...

Identifying Suspicious URLs

In the Google TechTalk, Justin Ma, a PhD candidate at UC San Diego, discusses a novel method for determining which URLs are malicious by applying large-scale online learning techniques...

Microsoft Says IE8 Weakness Not an Exploitable Flaw

Microsoft on Friday said that a weakness in Internet Explorer 8 identified by security researcher Ruben Santamarta recently is not an exploitable vulnerability, but rather a “technique for bypassing ASLR.” ASLR Address Space Layout Randomization is a memory protection that, along with DEP Data...

How to Own a Database With SQL Injection

SQL injection is the most common penetration technique employed by hackers to steal valuable information from corporate databases. Yet, as widespread as this method of attack is, a seemingly infinite number of ‘sub-methods,’ or variations of SQL Injection attacks can be carried out against the...

Ingres SQL Injection

Ingres SQL-Injection Небольшая заметка по Ingres, информации по этой СУБД крайне мало, поэтому решил поставить себе на локалхост и потренироваться. Далее мои впечатления и изыскания, форма представления материала скорее повествовательная, не привык писать строгие мануалы. Многие вещи основаны...

Understanding The Porn + Malware Connections

CAMBRIDGE — For a minimal investment of about $160, a single porn site operator can infect more than 20,000 computers with malware for use in cybercrime, according to an academic study presented at the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security WEIS 2010. The research team presented a...

Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) 8.2.254.0 - Information Disclosure

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Microsoft Outlook Web Access OWA version 8.2.254.0" OS: Windows Server 2003 Internet Explorer 7 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ There is an information disclosure vulnerability in "Microsoft Outlook Web Access OWA version...

Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) 8.2.254.0 - Information Disclosure

Microsoft Outlook Web Access OWA 8.2.254.0 - Information Disclosure $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "Microsoft Outlook Web Access OWA version 8.2.254.0" OS: Windows Server 2003 Internet Explorer 7 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ There is an information...

Inside a Banker Trojan

The attackers behind the raft of banker Trojans emanating from Brazil these days are continuing to refine their craft and learn new tricks. Their latest efforts have seen them going to greater lengths than ever to obfuscate their creations and hide their true functionality in order to evade...

Practical Web Security testing of HTTP truncated smuggling vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In this article, we will detailed to introduce the reader for the HTTP truncated and HTTP smuggling attack security testing techniques. We will by example demonstrate how to use the HTTP Protocol, certain properties, or the use of Web application weaknesses, or different proxy for HTTP message of...

Pwn2Own Safari Attack: Charlie Miller Hijacks MacBook

VANCOUVER, BC — For the third year in a row, Charlie Miller has hacked into a MacBook by exploiting a critical Safari browser vulnerability. At the CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacker contest here, Miller performed a clean drive-by download against Safari to get a full command shell on the MacBook. In the...

A Closer Look at Underrated Security Tech

Here are four techniques and related technologies several cited as underrated in today’s security fight. Since one security pro’s miracle tool is another’s waste of budget, it’s no surprise that a couple of the technologies panned earlier are praised here. Read the full article. CSO...

HTTP Content-Length header can be used to execute arbitrary code

Large values in the HTTP Content-Length header can cause Opera to crash. Certain specific values can cause a memory corruption, which in some cases can allow arbitrary code to be injected and executed. In most cases Opera will just crash. To inject code, additional techniques will have to be...

CSICE XSS and CSRF Vulnerability

Exploit for unknown platform in category web applications ================================ CSICE XSS and CSRF Vulnerability ================================ http://www.csice.org/ Suffers from XSS and CSRF cross site scripting and cross site request forgery attacks. The vulnerability lies in the...

Is That a Bot In Your Pocket? Or Does It Just Look Like One?

Last week at the RSA Conference, my colleague Derek Brown and I, presented findings from a research project titled MOBOTS: Pocketful of Pwnage, which was designed to show how easy it would be to create a large mobile botnet. Please note that we did not actually create a botnet; we simply presente...

As Memory Protections Advance, Exploits Stay a Step Ahead

SAN FRANCISCO–Despite years of efforts by software security teams at major vendors to harden the operating systems and browsers that are the most common targets of attackers, exploitation of new as well as older vulnerabilities is still simpler than many people might think. Microsoft, Mozilla,...