Maksymilian Arciemowicz has published an advisory outlining how one can perform CSRF attacks against FTP services, in this case Sun Solaris 10 ftpd. An attacker could embed a payload such as the following to execute commands on ftpd. <img src="ftp://.....////SITE%20CHMOD%20777%20FILENAME";> The NetBSD team addressed this issue by failing on large commands. The...
Artur Janc and Lukasz Olejnik have published a whitepaper outlining CSS history techniques along with results of what they found from real world users. From the whitepaper"Browser history detection through the Cascading Style Sheets visited pseudoclass has long been known to the academic security community and browser vendors, but has been largely...
Mozilla has released a tool that identifies which browser plugins you have installed, identifies if it is vulnerable, and provides you with links to get the updates. Very handy! Browser Plugin Check: https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/
Sacha Faust has published an IIS http module for the Strict Transport Security protocol. From his blog "I’ve been tackling the problem of users connecting to online services from untrusted network. At work we typically call this the “Startbucks” scenario where a user is connecting to a random wifi and accessing corporate...
