Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Now this is an oldskool topic, wardialling! Some people still ask me about wardialling tools though, so here’s one I found recently written in Python.PAW / PAWS is a wardialing software in python. It is designed to scan for ISDN (PAWS only) and “modern” analog modems (running at 9.6kbit/s or ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Blizzard's announcement of two-factor authentication for World of Warcraft is more significant than people realize.Passwords are obsolete. They are broken. We all recognize this, yet we aren't quite ready to give up on passwords because we haven't an easy alternative.World of Warcraft (WoW) is a good test case. It is ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Our research team has identified a web-based attack technique that exploits the growing number of applications that require a web server being run on a local machine. Cross-Environment Hopping (CEH) is a result of this trend combined with the current limitations in browsers’ same-origin policy access restrictions.The CEH technique enables ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Italian researchers have published a paper on the Detection of Encrypted Tunnels across Network Boundaries. I came across it in a google search because I’ve been thinking of writing a program which does something similar. It doesn’t seem like anyone else has picked up on this research yet so I ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 The MSRC released an advisory today that discusses the recent SQL injection attacks and announces three new tools to help identify and block these types of vulnerabilities. The advisory discusses the new tools, the purpose of each, and the way each complements the others. The goal of this blog post is ...
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