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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, January 2013 – Hot Sauce

January 08, 2013 | Space Rogue

I had lunch today at a great little Cajun restaurant in Chicago called Heaven ...

SpiderLabs Radio January 04, 2013 w/ Space Rogue

January 04, 2013

We are back with another episode of SpiderLabs Radio hosted by Space Rogue. ...

Dissecting a CVE-2012-4792 Payload

January 04, 2013 | Trustwave SpiderLabs

A little while ago I was fortunate enough to get ahold of a sample that was ...

Microsoft Advance Notification for January 2013

January 03, 2013 | Space Rogue

If you were hoping for a nice relaxing Patch Tuesday after the holidays, well, ...

Hacking with Drain Cleaner – Yet Another BitLocker Bypass Technique

January 02, 2013

As hard-wired as any Application Specific Integrated Circuit it seems the ...

Photobucket: An Identity Thief's Playground

January 02, 2013

Photobucket is a popular social media site that acts as gallery and cloud ...

Choppy Regulatory Waters ahead for EU SMEs?

January 02, 2013

There's been a reasonable amount of coverage of the (proposed) data protection ...

Internet Explorer - 2012 Last Minute 0-Day

January 01, 2013 | Rami Kogan

Using Zero Days attacks at end of the year are not the most considerate thing ...

Assessing iOS Applications – setting up a test environment and grabbing low hanging fruit

December 31, 2012

This guide should serve as an introduction for those wishing to get into iOS ...

Be Off the Beaten XPath, Go Blind

December 31, 2012 | Christophe De La Fuente

XPath (XML Path Language) is a language used to query XML documents in order to ...

Wardrive, Raspberry Pi Style!

December 31, 2012 | Videoman

I purchased a Raspberry Pi a few weeks back. I found that I could power it, ...

Teaching Security Self-Defense

December 31, 2012 | Barry O’Connell

My background in IT comes mostly from a nomadic perspective. In my years of IT ...

Getting Terminal Access to a Cisco Linksys E-1000

December 31, 2012 | Jonathan Claudius

Over the past couple weeks, I've been spending a lot of time hacking on various ...

SpiderLabs Radio December 28, 2012 w/ Space Rogue

December 28, 2012

We are back with another episode of SpiderLabs Radio hosted by Space Rogue. ...

SpiderLabs Radio December 21, 2012 w/ Space Rogue

December 21, 2012

We are back with another episode of SpiderLabs Radio hosted by Space Rogue. ...

Simple Ciphers, and a little SpiderLabs Crypto Contest

December 20, 2012

Millions have died and millions have been saved because of cryptography. There ...

Fraud, Passwords, and Pwnage on the Interwebz

December 19, 2012 | Therese Mendoza

This past weekend I was lucky enough to attend Microsoft's BlueHat Conference ...

Setting HoneyTraps with ModSecurity: Project Honeypot Integration

December 18, 2012

Following up my previous blog post which outlined how to activate additional ...

Finding Zero Days Reading Your Mind in the Year 2052

December 18, 2012 | Trustwave SpiderLabs

A number of months ago, I was approach by the organizers of TEDxNaperville to ...

Setting HoneyTraps with ModSecurity: Unused Web Ports

December 17, 2012 | Ryan Barnett

This blog post will show an easy configuration update that you can make to your ...

You down with LNK?

December 15, 2012 | Nathan Drier

Oftentimes on an Internal pen test, I find myself with a limited-privilege ...

PCAP Files Are Great Arn't They??

December 15, 2012 | David Kirkpatrick

One of the most important skills in anyone's armory responsible for looking ...

Abusing the Android Debug Bridge

December 14, 2012

The android debug bridge (or ADB for short) is a valuable tool, it is what ...

SpiderLabs Radio December 14, 2012 w/ Space Rogue

December 14, 2012

We are back with another episode of SpiderLabs Radio hosted by Space Rogue. ...

My 5 Top Ways to Escalate Privileges

December 13, 2012 | Bruno Oliveira

During a penetration test, rarely will the tester get access to a system with ...

Abusing SAP Servers

December 13, 2012 | Joaquim Espinhara da Silva Neto

During some recent penetration tests I have noticed that large companies have ...

The Dexter Malware: Getting Your Hands Dirty

December 13, 2012 | Josh Grunzweig

A very interesting piece of malware that targets Point of Sale systems has ...

[Honeypot Alert] Turning Local File Inclusion into Reflected Code Execution

December 12, 2012 | Ryan Barnett

Which web application attack type is more severe: Local File Inclusion (LFI) or ...