Monday, April 21st, 2008
The Captcha used in the current version 8.1 of PHP Nuke can be deciphered with 100% accuracy. more information can be found here:
http://www.rooksecurity.com/blog/?p=6
Exploit Code: http://www.rooksecurity.com/exploits/php_nuke_captcha.zip
What is so interesting about this captcha is that it is incredibly wide spread. Variants of this captcha are being used by big names like Paypal. ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
As Chris mentioned in a previous post we used social engineering and phishing emails as an attack vector. The scope of the engagement prevented us from collecting any data that could be used to identify the user. The client was not out to make examples of their staff but to ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Three-quarters of phishing sites are built on hacked servers that have been tracked down using pre-programmed Google search terms, according to research from brand-protection firm MarkMonitor.
Among other activities, MarkMonitor tracks phishing attacks that target brand names.
Researchers compiled a list of 750 Google search terms that are used to track down ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Hot on the heels of a recent hack in which 10,000 sites were compromised, researchers have disclosed a new large-scale attack..
Researchers at McAfee estimated that the attack has been active for roughly one week, and in that time frame has managed to place itself on roughly 200,000 web pages.
Most of ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
I just converted most of the site over to Wordpress. I did not copy over all 1400+ news articles. That would have taken days. But I did copy over the important stuff this afternoon. So that explains why all the previous posts are all dated today even though the news ...
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