I've been fortunate enough to manage a red team program for several years and since it's inception it has gone through many changes. What started out as adhoc engagements trying to see how far we could get/what problems we could find, turned into a mechanism to work more closely, and regularly with...
Security Innovation has published a very extensive guide to IOS hacking that's worth checking out. Here's the table of contents 1. Setting Up iOS Pentest Lab.................. 5 1.1 Get an iOS Device...................5 1.2 Jailbreaking an iOS Device.................. 7 1.3 Installing Required Software and Utilities .................. 10 2. Acquiring iOS Binaries.................. 13 3....
In 2010 I wrote an article about a flaw Google discovered, and published working exploit code when no fix or mitigation existed. This allowed attackers to immediately start using the flaw to hack Google's own users (in this case, the world). Since then Google has announced a new program 'Project Zero' which...
Google published today that yet another CA has been caught generating certs for Google's domains. This problem is likely occuring on a much larger scale and seems to be detected by chance. Some have suggested crawling the internet and starting a DB, and while this may detect some issues it's limited for...
The Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) is pleased to announce the Static Analysis Technologies Evaluation Criteria. The goal of the SATEC project is to create a vendor-neutral set of criteria to help guide application security professionals during the process of acquiring a static code analysis technology that is intended to be used...
I've worked in the security field in various roles (script kiddie, security researcher, incident response, application security engineer, security consultant, strategy, etc..) and thought I'd share a few points to those of you starting out in the security industry. Things are worse than you expect The reality is that companies, even large...
UPDATE: One of the authors has posted two responses including an apology (accepted). I was taught in grade school that if you plan on writing something, never plagiarize. If you want to republish portions of existing content ensure you properly quote/reference them, and never represent this content as your own original work....
A couple of people had asked me what are some things that you can do prior to attending hacker cons such as Blackhat and Defcon. Kurt Cobain said it best "Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you'. Here's a short list (albeit not complete as I don't plan to...
Ray "Vanhalen" Kelly has written a post describing the security mechanisms used by Google+, as well as compares them to facebook. In particular he reviews each HTTP protection header and provides a good explanation of the purpose of each protection. Link: https://www.barracudanetworks.com/blogs/labsblog?bid=1743
Anant Shrivastava has posted a whitepaper providing a rundown of application fingerprinting methodologies, as well as comparisons of various tools such as W3af, BlindElephant, and Wapplyzer. "This Paper discusses about a relatively nascent field of Web Application finger printing, how automated web application fingerprinting is performed in the current scenarios, what are...
Someone has published a SQL Injection in labs.oracle.com at http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/07/oracle-website-vulnerable-to-sql.html . That is all.
I sent the following out to The Web Security Mailing List (which I moderate) announcing a new WASC Project. "The Web Application Security Consortium is pleased to announce a new project "Static Analysis Tool Evaluation Criteria (SATEC)". Currently WASC is seeking volunteers from various sections of the community including security researchers, academics,...
Ivan Ristic (of modsecurity fame) has published the results of an evaluation against over 900,000 websites supporting SSL. The goal of this evaluation was to see how people really use/misuse ssl in the wild, as well as report on the usage of browser protections such as the Secure cookie flag, and Strict-Transport-Security....
Rosario Valotta has published an interesting attack against IE that takes advantage of clickjacking. In a nutshell it combines origin flaws within IE with clickjacking to trick a user into copying/pasting their own cookies from any site! Demonstration below The technical details can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/tentacoloviola/cookiejacking and his slides at https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnx0ZW50YWNvbG92aW9sYXxneDoxMWJlZTI5ZjVhYjdiODQx
NIST has published a fantastic project (its been out since late December, but I only just became aware of it) where they've created vulnerable code test cases for much of MITRE's CWE project in Java and c/c++. From the README "This archive contains test cases intended for use by organizations and individuals...
"Luigi Auriemma" has posted an interesting series of SCADA vulnerabilities to the bugtraq security list this morning. From his email "The following are almost all the vulnerabilities I found for a quick experiment some months ago in certain well known server-side SCADA softwares still vulnerable in this moment. In case someone doesn't...
Lorna Alamri writes in the following announcement "The OWASP AppSec USA 2011 Call for Papers (CFP) is now open. Visit the following URL to submit your abstract for the September 22-23, 2011 talks in Minneapolis, Minnesota: http://www.appsecusa.org/talks.html We're excited to announce that speakers will be in good company with our first keynote,...
While thinking about some of the transparent proxy problems I came up with a fairly reliable way to detect caching proxies. Caching proxies can be either explicit or transparent, but are typically used in a transparent mode by an ISP to cut down on upstream bandwidth. A side effect (and benefit :)...
Ryan Barnett (Leader of the WASC Web Hacking Incidents Database Project) has announced a new mailing list where users can subscribe to hear about the latest hacking incidents. From his email to The Web Security Mailing List "Greetings everyone, I wanted to let everyone know that we have setup a mail-list for...
The Web Application Security Consortium (in which I am a co founder) is throwing a party at RSA this year in San Francisco. Here's the formal announcement. "Take a Break @ RSA and Meet-up with Your Peers at the WASC Meet UP Join your Web application security peers for lunch at Jillian's@Metreon....
In addition to CGISecurity, I also run a website called QASEC.com where I post SDLC related content. I've just published a lightweight article discussing tips and tricks for tracking software level vulnerabilities in larger organizations. Abstract: "If you work in infosec for a large organization it can be difficult to easily track...
Gawker was recently compromised and had its source code and user passwords leaked onto the web. The Wall Street Journal has published a list of the top 50 passwords with the #1 password being '123456'. The full list can be found at http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/12/13/the-top-50-gawker-media-passwords/
A handful of people from silicon valley (myself included) have been discussing the lack of good hacker conference in the bay area (RSA does not count) for some time and decided to meet up during defcon to see what we could do about this. It was concluded that the only logical thing...
To celebrate 25 years the phrack team has published issue #67. Introduction The Phrack Staff Phrack Prophile on Punk The Phrack Staff Phrack World News EL ZILCHO Loopback (is back) The Phrack Staff How to make it in Prison TAp Kernel instrumentation using kprobes ElfMaster ProFTPD with mod_sql pre-authentication, remote root FelineMenace...
Chris Evans has posted an interesting bug in IE involving using JavaScript's window.onerror to leak cross domain data. From his blog "The bug is pretty simple: IE supports a window.onerror callback which fires whenever a Javascript parse or runtime error occurs. Trouble is, it fires even if www.evil.com registers its own window.onerror...
"Former college student David Kernell, whose criminal prying into Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account caused an uproar two months before the 2008 presidential election, was today sentenced to a year and a day in federal custody by a judge who recommended that the time be served in a Knoxville, Tenn. halfway house....
To commemorate this site turning 10 I've created a list of my top 10 thought provoking/innovate posts that people who haven't been following this site may be unaware of. The Cross-site Scripting FAQ (2001) In 2001 someone informed me of this new threat involving the injection of HTML/Javascript into a site's response...
Ten years ago today I started cgisecurity.com to fill a void in the application security space. At the time no other dedicated site existed, neither OWASP nor WASC had been created, and the www-mobile list was effectively the only place to discuss web related vulns and attacks . When I first started...
Fellow WASC officer Ryan Barnett has published an update to the Web Hacking Incident Database project. He sent the following to The Web Security List (a list which I operate) this morning. "Greetings everyone, I wanted to let you all know that we have released the new WHID report for 2010 -...
"A hack attack that can expose users to malware exploits has infected more than 1 million webpages, at least two of which belong to Apple. The SQL injection attacks bombard the websites of legitimate companies with database commands that attempt to add hidden links that lead to malware exploits. While most of...
For you python developers out there, Craig Younkins sent the following to The Web Security Mailing List (which I moderate) this morning. "I'd like to invite you to a new community - http://www.pythonsecurity.org/ - which is now the central hub for security in Python. We're writing articles on security topics and how...
Update2: Further proof that people are abusing this in a wide scale and likely wouldn't have had the exploit code not been released. Update: I've clarified a few points and added a few others. Recently Tavis Ormandy (a google employee) discovered a security issue in windows, and days after notifying Microsoft published...
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...
It appears someone used a combination of XSS on an Apache domain, a url shortener, and an issue tracking system to ultimately lead to rooting of 2 core Apache machines used to host bugzilla, and the main shell server. This is a great breakdown of a real world incident that people rarely...
Sullo writes in "CMS Explorer is designed to reveal the the specific modules, plugins, components and themes that various CMS driven web sites are running. It can also search OSVDB.org for vulnerabilities in found components, as well as "bootstrap" a security proxy by downloading potential file names from the component's code repository...
Former coworker Sacha Faust has published an entry on how the lack of handling relative urls when implementing URL redirection can lead to open redirector's. Article: http://blogs.msdn.com/sfaust/archive/2010/03/30/saferedirect.aspx
Could the trend of claiming not to know any better while hacking due to asperger's be coming to an end? From Wired "Convicted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for leading a gang of cyberthieves who stole more than 90 million credit and debit card...
Facebook and isecpartners have teamed up to write an article on developing secure applications on the Facebook platform. "This document provides a basic outline/best practice for developing secure applications on the Facebook platform. Facebook applications are web, desktop, or mobile applications that make use of the Facebook API to integrate tightly with...
From the announcement "Web Security Dojo is a turnkey web application security lab with tools, targets, and training materials built into a Virtual Machine(VM). It is ideal for both self-instruction and training classes since everything is pre-configured and no external network connection is needed. All tools and targets are configured to use...
"A new update to the Watcher passive vulnerability detection and security testing tool has been released. Watcher is an open source addon to the Fiddler Web proxy that aids developers, auditors, and penetration testers in finding Web-application security issues as well as hot-spots for deeper review." - Casabasecurity The full announcement can...
Someone has published an amusing cheat sheet that will allow you to fuzz barcode scanning systems for common input validation issues such as XSS and SQL Injection. They even provide an online barcode generator which allows you to create your own payloads. Not much else to say really :) Link: http://www.irongeek.com/xss-sql-injection-fuzzing-barcode-generator.php
I haven't really been posting advisories on this website for the past year, however a series of XML Injection/XXe vulnerabilities in Adobe products caught my eye. XML Injection is to web services, what XSS is to web pages (an attacker controllable application response able to perform abuses against the consumer). This advisory...
I was luck enough to assist in this project and I must say that a lot of great discussions took place. Unlike many other top x security lists, SANS/MITRE's methodology is fairly extensive and well documented giving you insight into how decisions were made. I do want to point out that top...
Larry Suto published a report comparing the various commercial web application security scanners. As you'd expect the vendors are likely to respond about how inaccurate the report is, however in this case both HP and Acunetix argued valid points. From Acunetix "They were not found because Larry didn’t authenticated our scanner (didn’t...
The latest version of Apache 1.3.42 is the last 1.3 version of Apache that will be released. I admit I've been running 1.3 for ages now due to it being rock solid and having a decent security track record. The announcement states that security patches 'may be available' at http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/patches/ but consider...
Timothy D. Morgan has published an excellent paper describing How UI limitations hinder adoption of HTTP based authentication How UI behaviors are/can be abused pertaining to HTTP auth Observations on Cookie limitations Proposals for browser vendors to allow for more widescale adoption of HTTP based auth such as digest From the paper...
The Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) is having an official meetup in San Francisco during the RSA conference.If you like to get free food/drinks, shoot pool, and chat appsec with many of the leading researchers in the appsec world this is your chance. WASC RSA 2010 Meet-up Wednesday, March 3, 2010 Lunch...
An interview claiming to be with a facebook employee discusses a few things that you probably were hoping didn't happen. Here are some choice quotes from the article " Rumpus: Have you ever logged in to anyone’s account? Employee: I have. For engineering reasons. Rumpus: Have you ever done it outside of...
I don't usually post much about hacking incidents but this one was particularly funny. "A college student has been dropped from her classes twice, apparently the victim of someone who hacked into her schedule.Michelle McCoy-Lloyd was going to take two culinary classes at San Joaquin Delta College starting next week.Last month, someone...
Jeremiah Grossman and Bil Corry have created a nice visual mapping between the OWASP Top Ten and the WASC Threat Classification v2. More Information: http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2010/01/wasc-threat-classification-to-owasp-top.html
I am very pleased to announce that the WASC Threat Classification v2 is finally out the door. This project has by far been one of the most challenging, intellectually stimulating projects I've had the chance to work on. I have included the official announcement below. "The Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) is...
Stephen Watt (alias JimJones/Unix Terrorist/PHC/etc) was sentenced to 2 years in prison for his role in writing the blablah sniffer used by the folks involved in the TJX credit card incident. From wired magazine "While accused TJX hacker kingpin Albert Gonzalez awaits a possible sentence of 17 years or more in prison,...
Adobe has published an entry on their blog outlining how fuzzing plays a part in discovering security issues in their product prior to launching it. Its good to see a company such as Adobe publishing this information as its one of those things that is discussed frequently by the security community, however...
Net-Security has posted an article on the discovery of 132k+ sites that have been SQL Injected. From the article "A large scale SQL injection attack has injected a malicious iframe on tens of thousands of susceptible websites. ScanSafe reports that the injected iframe loads malicious content from 318x.com, which eventually leads to...
Google has announced that they are offering a free DNS service to anyone wanting to use it. Unfortunately the motivations/privacy concerns aren't being discussed in as much detail as I'd like, and people aren't asking the important question of why google is offering such a free service. Several points to consider Google...
Microsoft has published a paper on its ASP.NET MVC framework, how to use it, and how utilization of an SDL eliminates the potential to introduce vulnerabilities such as XSRF. From the paper "On the Microsoft platform, most Web applications are based on ASP.NET and the Microsoft®.NET Framework. ASP.NET MVC is a new...
A new CERT advisory has been published outlining a weakness in the way web based SSL clients operate, resulting in a Same Origin Policy breakage. Here's the meaty details. "As the web VPN retrieves web pages, it rewrites hyperlinks so that they are accessible through the web VPN. For example, a link...
Microsoft has been working on a tool called 'Nozzle' to prevent the exploitation of heap spraying attacks and released a whitepaper describing the process. From the whitepaper. "Heap spraying is a new security attack that significantly increases the exploitability of existing memory corruption errors in type-unsafe applications. With heap spraying, attackers leverage...
"The Romanian hacker who successfully broke into a web site owned by security vendor Kaspersky Lab has struck again, this time exposing shortcomings in a Symantec web server. The hacker, known only as Unu, said in a blog post today that he was able to access a server belonging to the security...
From computerworld "Mozilla will add a new lockdown feature to Firefox 3.6 that will prevent developers from sneaking add-ons into the program, the company said. The new feature, which Mozilla dubbed "component directory lockdown," will bar access to Firefox's "components" directory, where most of the browser's own code is stored. The company...
Peleus from Adobe's security team has published a blog entry on how to securely deploy flash crossdomain.xml files. If you're considering using flash on your site, or already are be sure to check out this article. Article: http://blogs.adobe.com/asset/2009/11/securely_deploying_cross-domai.html
At AppsecDC OWASP published the latest version of its top ten list. From the Top Ten "OWASP plans to release the final public release of the OWASP Top 10 -2010during the first quarter of 2010 after a final, one-month public comment period ending December 31, 2009. This release of the OWASPTop 10...
I'll be heading out to AppSecDC to present Transparent Proxy Abuse on Thursday, so if you're attending and want to chat about appsec I'll be available after my talk. Here's a teaser of my presentation I'll be presenting a video demonstrating this abuse case against Squid and Mac OS X Parental Control...
Steve Dispensa and Marsh Ray have published a paper describing a weakness in the TLS negotiation process. This is the same attack discussed on the IETF TLS list. From the whitepaper "Transport Layer Security (TLS, RFC 5246 and previous, including SSL v3 and previous) is subject to a number of serious man-in-the-middle...
There is a rather lengthy set of posts on using cloud based computing services as ideal venues for crypto and password cracking. Link: http://news.electricalchemy.net/2009/10/cracking-passwords-in-cloud.html Link: http://news.electricalchemy.net/2009/10/password-cracking-in-cloud-part-5.html
Microsoft has published the Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit. This toolkit allows you to specify a process to add the following forms of protection (without recompiling). SEHOP This mitigation performs Structured Exception Handling (SEH) chain validation and breaks SEH overwrite exploitation techniques. Take a look at the following SRD blog post for more...
Corsaire has published a rather lengthy paper on attacking gift card systems. While this is a little off topic it's a good read. "This paper is based on research conducted on a large number of UK gift cards. It has been created to complement the presentation “Stored Value Gift Cards: Magstripes Revisited”,...
It was announced this morning that Rapid7 has purchased metasploit, and hdmoore! That is all. Rapid7 Announcement: http://www.rapid7.com/metasploit-announcement.jsp Metasploit Blog: http://blog.metasploit.com/2009/10/metasploit-rising.html Metasploit Blog: http://blog.metasploit.com/2009/10/joining-team.html More Coverage http://www.andrewhay.ca/archives/1085 http://blog.ianetsec.net/perspective/2009/10/nick-selby-metasploit-acquisition-shakes-up-the-pentest-landscape.html http://darkreading.com/vulnerability_management/security/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220800067
"This article provides a simple model to follow when implementing transport layer protection for an application. Although the concept of SSL is known to many, the actual details and security specific decisions of implementation are often poorly understood and frequently result in insecure deployments. This article establishes clear rules which provide guidance...
The Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) is pleased to announce the WASC Web Application Security Statistics Project 2008. This initiative is a collaborative industry wide effort to pool together sanitized website vulnerability data and to gain a better understanding about the web application vulnerability landscape. The statistics was compiled from web application...
"What was essentially a typo last night resulted in the temporary disappearance from the Internet of almost a million Web sites in Sweden -- every address with a .se top-level down name. According to Web monitoring company Pingdom, which happens to be based in Sweden, the disablement of an entire top-level domain...
I lead the WASC Threat Classification v2 project and we've just completed a section that I felt deserved its own post. Prasad Shenoy along with the WASC TC peer review team authored a really great section on Improper Input Handling meant to describe each aspect of input handling with a medium level...
After checking out my favorite stocks this morning at finance.yahoo.com I saw an article titled 'best jobs in America' so figured I'd check it out. To my surprise Computer/Network Security Consultant was ranked as the 8th best job in the US. Very cool! Link: http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/107932/best-jobs-in-america.html
"The Web Application Security Consortium is pleased to announce the release of version 1 of the Web Application Security Scanner Evaluation Criteria (WASSEC). The goal of the WASSEC project is to create a vendor-neutral document to help guide information security professionals during web application scanner evaluations. The document provides a comprehensive list...
The WASC Distributed Open Proxy Honeypots project has published an entry on people performing brute force attacks against tomcat administrative interfaces through WASC's open relay proxies. Tomcat Brute Forcing: http://tacticalwebappsec.blogspot.com/2009/10/wasc-honeypots-apache-tomcat-admin.html
UPDATE: Reddit has posted a blog entry at http://blog.reddit.com/2009/09/we-had-some-bugs-and-it-hurt-us.html addressing this. "Popular social news website Reddit has stopped the spread of a cross-site scripting (XSS) worm that hit the site on Monday. The XSS worm spread via comments on the site, originally from the account of a user called xssfinder. Reddit failed...
"A Russian security group has posted a detailed blog post about how they managed to extract the source code to over 3,300 websites. The group found that some of the largest and best known domains on the web, such as apache.org and php.net, amongst others, are vulnerable to an elementary information leak...
"The open-source ESAPI WAF is a departure from commercial, network-based firewalls, as well as ModSecurity's free WAF, says Arshan Dabirsiaghi, developer of the ESAPI WAF and director of research for Aspect Security. Dabirsiaghi will roll out the WAF at the OWASP Conference in Washington, D.C., in November. "WAFs today are deployed as...
Fellow coworker Jeff Hodges has announced the formal specification draft for Strict Transport Security. STS is a new proposed protocol for allowing a website to instruct returning visitors to never visit the site on http, and to only visit the site over https and is entirely opt in. This can prevent MITM...
From the download pages. BinScope "BinScope is a Microsoft verification tool that analyzes binaries on a project-wide level to ensure that they have been built in compliance with Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) requirements and recommendations. BinScope checks that SDL-required compiler/linker flags are being set, strong-named assemblies are in use, up-to-date build...
"The 4.0.207.0 release uses a reflective XSS filter that checks each script before it executes to check if the script appears in the request that generated the page. Should it find a match, the script will be blocked. According to Chromium developer Adam Barth, the developers plan to post an academic paper...
Fellow WASC officer Ryan Barnett has published findings pertaining to a distributed brute force attack against Yahoo's login pages as part of his findings for the WASC Distributed Open Proxy Honeypot Project . For those not aware of this project, Ryan leads an initiative where people run open relay proxies and centrally...
Microsoft has just published a remote vulnerability in the windows TCP/IP stack. "This security update resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) processing. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if an attacker sent specially crafted TCP/IP packets over the network to a computer with a listening service....
From the report "Our initial running theory was correct--the server that hosted the apachecon.com (dv35.apachecon.com) website had been compromised. The machine was running CentOS, and we suspect they may have used the recent local root exploits patched in RHSA-2009-1222 to escalate their privileges on this machine. The attackers fully compromised this machine,...
Netcraft is reporting that apache.org has been compromised. The apache blog posted the following message indicating an SSH key compromise. "This is a short overview of what happened on Friday August 28 2009 to the apache.org services. A more detailed post will come at a later time after we complete the audit...
David "I like to beat up on oracle" Litchfield has published a new paper outlining how DBMS_ASSERT can be misused in such a way that SQL Injection is possible. From the whitepaper "The DBMS_ASSERT builtin package can be used by PL/SQL developers to protect against SQL injection attacks[1]. In [2] Alex Kornbrust...
"OWASP Announces International Application Security Conference for 2009 Speaker Agenda Released and Registration Open for 2009's Largest Web Application Security Event Washington DC August 20th, 2009 -- Following in the footsteps of the Open Web Application Security Project's (OWASP, http://www.owasp.org ) immensely successful and popular conferences earlier this year in Australia, Poland,...
We're nearing the completion of the WASC Threat Classification v2 (2 sections left!) and have added the following new sections since my last couple of posts. Null Byte Injection Integer Overflows We've also heavily updated the following sections Buffer Overflows (in depth discussion of heap vs stack vs integer overflows) SQL Injection...
"Everyone knows the invaluable XSS cheat sheet maintained by "RSnake". It is all about breaking things and features all the scenarios that can result in XSS. To complement his efforts, there is an excellent XSS prevention cheat sheet created by "Jeff Williams" (Founder and CEO, Aspect Security). As far as I have...
"Yesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a result, the first account without a key in the database (usually the admin account) would have its password reset and...
Fellow WASC Officer Ryan Barnett has started the next phase of the Distributed Open Proxy Honeypot Project where people deploy open relay proxies and send the results to a central host for analysis. I met up with Ryan at blackhat where he showed me the central console displaying metrics for each proxy...
"Gary McKinnon has lost a judicial review against his extradition to the United States on hacking charges. Lawyers for the Briton hoped his recent diagnosis with Asperger's Syndrome would be enough to persuade judges to overturn previous rulings and allow McKinnon to be tried in the UK." - The Register Long story...
Just got back from vegas and finally started catching up. Looks like a fake ATM was placed at defcon (no surprise). "As the conference was kicking off a few days ago, attendees noticed that at ATM placed in the Riviera Hotel, which plays host to the annual event, didn't quite look right,...
Darkreading posted the following article on a infosec job survey that I found highly intriguing. "Kushner and Murray say they were surprised by security's high number of unhappy campers -- 52 percent of the around 900 security pros who participated in the survey are less than satisfied with their current jobs. Only...
Securethoughts has posted an entry on combining CSS history theft hacking to brute force short CSRF tokens and has created a POC demonstrating it. While not fast this is certainly achievable (assuming the token is still valid/hasn't expired once identified) on short CSRF token values, and has the advantage in that it...
It is Microsoft patch Tuesday and the following issues have been addressed. MS09-029 Vulnerabilities in the Embedded OpenType Font Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution (961371) This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Windows component, Embedded OpenType (EOT) Font Engine. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution. An...
"The exploit portal Milw0rm has published an exploit for Firefox 3.5. The exploit demonstrates a security vulnerability by starting the Windows calculator. In testing by heise Security, the exploit crashed Firefox under Vista, but security service providers Secunia and VUPEN confirmed that attackers using prepared websites can infect PCs. The cause of...
