Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
A little-known botnet has put a different spin on the recent wave of SQL injection attacks on thousands of Websites: It’s outfitting its bots with its own tool to launch SQL injection attacks on vulnerable sites.
The Asprox botnet, a relatively small botnet known mainly for sending phishing emails, has been ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
The mass SQL injection attacks we've mentioned here and here are increasing in numbers and we're seeing more domains being injected and used to host the attack files and we believe that there are now more than one group using a set of different automated tools to inject the code.
Previously ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
We received a report from Mike this afternoon about a couple of URLs containing a malicious JavaScript that pulls down a file associated with Zlob. If you do a google search for these two URLs, you get about 400,000 sites that have a call to this Javascript file included in ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
It takes the average attacker less than 10 seconds to hack in and out of a database -- hardly enough time for the database administrator even notice the intruder. So it’s no surprise that many database attacks go unnoticed by organizations until long after the data has been compromised.
And surprisingly, ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
In PHP there exist two functions to escape shell commands or arguments to shell commands that are used in PHP applications to protect against shell command injection vulnerabilities.
- escapeshellcmd()
- escapeshellarg()
Unfortunately it was discovered that both functions fail to protect against shell command injection when the shell uses a locale with ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
The developers of the PHP scripting language have issued Version 5.2.6, which fixes numerous bugs and plugs some security holes. The changes are comprehensive, including bug fixes to modules that link to third-party products. PHP 5.2.6 also rectifies several flaws that could have caused a crash.
The developers have eliminated errors ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Microsoft has provided security advice to web developers using its products after many such sites were compromised. Last week, hundreds of thousands of web pages were infected with a malicious iframe which tries to infect visitors with a trojan. Many high profile sites including the United Nations (un.org), the UK ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
How can an attacker exploit a PL/SQL procedure that doesn’t even take user input? Or how does one do SQL injection using DATE or even NUMBER data types? In the past this has not been possible but as this paper will demonstrate, with a little bit of trickery, you can ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
There's another round of mass SQL injections going on which has infected hundreds of thousands of websites.
Performing a Google search results in over 510,000 modified pages.
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Almost everyone knows what CSRF or better unauthorized requests are. I never really embraced CSRF as the correct term for unauthorized request issues, because the term is outdated and inadequate to contemporary hacking. For me, an unauthorized request is the layer or automation of a hacking procedure without direct interference ...
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