New Security Tools

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Here is a list of new security tools that were released in the past week.SQL Ninja 0.2.3 - SQL server injection and takeover tool fgdump 2.1.0 - Tool for mass password auditing of windows systems AxBan 1.0.0.4 - ActiveX killbit program Nmap 4.65 - Network port scanner Nessus 3.2.1 - Vulnerability assessment tool Immunity Debugger ...

What you need to know about HTTP Verb Tampering

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Recently Arshan Dabirsiaghi, Director of Research of Aspect Security, published a white paper entitled “Bypassing URL Authentication and Authorization with HTTP Verb Tampering”. Initially there was a lot of confusion about what exactly was being explained or claimed. Including, is it real? Is it novel? Is it dangerous? What is ...

Malware & MySQL – Believe it!

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 ...

XSS Methods Also Seen Being Used in Mass Compromises

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) Very Much Alive and KickingWe were about to investigate further on malicious activities related to banner82(dot)com/b.js but the URL was already inaccessible around Tuesday. Soon enough the malicious script in www(dot)adw95(dot)com caught our interest. A rough survey of the sites compromised by this script reveal that the ...

sqlninja 0.2.3 released – Advanced Automated SQL Injection Tool for MS-SQL

Friday, May 30th, 2008

We’ve been folowing the development of sqlninja since the early days, it’s growing into a well matured and more polished tool with advanced features.Sqlninja is a tool written in PERL to exploit SQL Injection vulnerabilities on a web application that uses Microsoft SQL Server as its back-end. Its main goal ...