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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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 I never really embraced CSRF as the correct term for unauthorized request issues, because the term is outdated and inadequate to contemporary hacking.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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Monday, April 21st, 2008
In a security alert last week, Microsoft reported a vulnerability which allows local users and users signed on with access to an Internet Information Server (IIS) or MS SQL server to escalate their privileges. Server operators such as hosting providers who allow user code to be executed, for example on ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability which could allow elevation of privilege from authenticated user to LocalSystem, affecting Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 and all supported versions and editions of Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008. Customers who allow user-provided code to run ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
The SANS Institute has uncovered what they've termed a "rare gem" as far as computer security investigations go that sheds new light on how up to 20,000 Web sites have been hacked since January.
They found a sneaky software tool that uses Google's search engine to hunt for Web sites running ...
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