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Microsoft Advance Notification for May 2014

May 08, 2014 | Robert Foggia

Tuesday, May 13 marks the next Microsoft security patch release. This release ...

Exploit Kit Roundup: Best of Obfuscation Techniques

May 07, 2014 | Anat (Fox) Davidi

The world of exploit kits is an ever-changing one, if you happen to look away ...

[Honeypot Alert] Open Flash Charts File Upload Attacks

May 06, 2014

Our web honeypots picked up some increased scanning/exploit activity for the ...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 0-Day (CVE-2014-1776)

May 05, 2014 | Trustwave SpiderLabs

A zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, CVE-2014-1776, was ...

Detecting A Surveillance State - Part 4 Cellular Attacks

May 05, 2014

This is the fourth and final post in my series of posts about state actor ...

SpiderLabs Radio: May 1, 2014

May 02, 2014

In this episode:

ModSecurity Advanced Topic of the Week: JSON Support

May 02, 2014 | Ryan Barnett

Submitted by Felipe Costa and Ryan Barnett (SpiderLabs Research - ModSecurity ...

Lnk files in Email Malware Distribution

May 02, 2014

Recently I have noticed more use of .lnk files used in malware distribution via ...

SpiderLabs Radio: April 24, 2014

April 25, 2014

In this episode:

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Cisco ASA's SSL VPN

April 25, 2014

Trustwave SpiderLabs security researcher Jonathan Claudius has discovered a ...

NetSupport Information Leakage Using Nmap Script

April 23, 2014 | David Kirkpatrick

NetSupport allows corporations to remotely manage and connect to PC's and ...

SpiderLabs Radio: April 17, 2014

April 18, 2014

In this episode:

Trustwave Analysis of the April 2014 Oracle CPU for Databases

April 17, 2014 | Alex Kaluski

The 17th of April fell this week, which means it is Oracle Critical Patch ...

Announcing ModSecurity v2.8.0

April 16, 2014 | Ryan Barnett

SpiderLabs Radio: April 10, 2014

April 10, 2014

In this episode I bid a fond farewell to Windows XP; Microsoft patches that RTF ...

Detecting A Surveillance State - Part 3 Infected Firmware

April 09, 2014

In this third installment of Detecting A Surveillance State blog series I will ...

Farewell to XP

April 09, 2014 | woodbusy

As Karl noted in his Patch Tuesday post, yesterday was the last day of support ...

Capturing Ghosts: Using inotify to defeat an Android DRM system

April 09, 2014 | Mike Park

Apart from our typical application penetration testing engagements, clients ...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, April 2014

April 08, 2014

April's Microsoft Patch Tuesday is on par with the prior releases this year. ...

Microsoft Advance Notification for April 2014

April 03, 2014 | Robert Foggia

The Microsoft April security release is almost upon us with security updates ...

SpiderLabs Radio: April 3, 2014

April 03, 2014

In this episode I talk about GMail making HTTPS mandatory, a move some people ...

Microsoft Word RTF 0-Day (CVE-2014-1761)

April 03, 2014 | Trustwave SpiderLabs

A zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word involving the handling of the RTF ...

Stupid Spammer Tricks – Multi-Character Set Text

March 31, 2014 | Brian Bebeau

Looking to refinance your house? Install solar panels? Hey, this email about ...

Old School Code Injection in an ATM .dll

March 31, 2014 | Christophe De La Fuente

During our last ATM review engagement, we found some interesting executable ...

Wendel's Small Hacking Tricks - The Annoying NT_STATUS_INVALID_WORKSTATION.

March 31, 2014 | Wendel Guglielmetti Henrique

Since 2003 a large part of my workday has been devoted solely to hacking ...

An Intro to NetSupport Manager Scripts

March 31, 2014 | David Kirkpatrick

On a recent gig I was hit with hundreds of hosts running a service on port TCP ...

[Honeypot Alert] JCE Joomla Extension Attacks

March 26, 2014 | Ryan Barnett

Our web honeypots picked up some increased exploit attempts for an old Joomla ...

SpiderLabs Radio: March 20, 2014

March 20, 2014

In this episode we talk about the Windigo malware campaign, how a ...