Sunday, June 8th, 2008
OK gang, this is one of those rare moments where feedback from community will directly influence a security feature that’ll make a real difference. First some background...
About 6 months ago Brandon Sterne left a cushy infosec position at eBay for Mozilla to solve an extremely important Web security problem he ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
The emergence of a variant on a virus that encrypts the victim's data with a strong 1,024-bit algorithm so the victim can't unscramble it without paying a ransom has begun to spread, potentially posing a major threat, according to the antimalware firm which discovered it.
Kaspersky Lab says the new variant ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Most malware tends to store stolen credentials and information in make-shift text files, which are then forwarded to the author via email or another protocol. However, the use of scalable and robust solutions is becoming more popular in the malware community. In fact, it is becoming increasingly popular for malware ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
The videos from ShmooCon 2008 have hit the shelves. Go download them at:
http://www.shmoocon.org/2008/videos/
EDIT: As of the time of this post, some of the videos are incorrectly named. Here is the 1-> 1:
Correctly Named:
21st Century Shellcode for Solaris
Advanced Protocol Fuzzing - What We Learned when Bringing Layer2 Logic to SPIKE land
Backtrack ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Web developer Aza Raskin knows we visit Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit and Facebook without even having to ask.
No, he isn't employing privacy violating hackery, but he is exploiting a "cute" information leak in CSS that traditionally displays visited links differently than those that have yet to be visited. By loading in ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Nowadays, who understands Di-Di-Di-Da-Da-Da-Di-Di-Dit (S.O.S., Save Our Souls)? Few people do, but your web browser just might. In his blog, security expert Nathan McFeters has reported the discovery of a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on an Italian website that allows attackers to inject malicious JavaScript encoded in Morse code in ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
If you allow user-contributed content in your site, you run into the problem of dealing with user supplied HTML in a safe manner. The most secure way of dealing with things, of course, is to strip or escape all HTML from user input fields. Unfortunately, there are many situations where ...
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Malware authors will often have their files display something to the user so that they actually believe the file is legitimate. Many of us have experienced such tricks, including fake errors stating that a specific file could not be found or that the application failed to load properly. Today we ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Security researchers on Monday spotted malicious code that triggers a critical vulnerability in the Chinese version of Windows 2000, and warned users of other editions to expect attacks.
Symantec confirmed that the proof-of-concept code publicly posted to the milw0rm.com site earlier in the day successfully attacks Chinese editions of Windows 2000 ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
About one percent of the Internet web pages are being changed in transit, sometimes in a harmful way, according to researchers at the University of Washington.
In a paper, set to be delivered Wednesday, the researchers document some troubling practices. In July and August they tested data sent to about 50,000 ...
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