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Smart Phone + Mail Server = Location Tracking

September 28, 2012

My last two posts have touched on the privacy perspective in relation tomobile ...

Good things happen when Forensics and Malware Analysis work together.

September 28, 2012 | Grayson Lenik

The SpiderLabs Incident Response team worked a case earlier this year where ...

Trustwave SpiderLabs in Africa

September 28, 2012

Africa. The land of origin; the original unknown.

Update from Trustwave SpiderLabs EMEA

September 28, 2012

Europe, Middle East and Africa consists of around 120 countries depending on ...

Adding Anti-CSRF Support to Burp Suite Intruder

September 28, 2012 | Ulisses Alburquerque

In the web application penetration testing industry, Burp Suite is considered a ...

FinSpy Mobile - Configuration and Insight

September 27, 2012 | Josh Grunzweig

A couple of weeks ago, Citizen Lab announced the discovery of the mobile ...

Oops, I pwned your router - Part Two

September 26, 2012

In the last blog post, "Opps I pwned your router Part One", I talked about some ...

Getting in with the Proxmark 3 and ProxBrute

September 26, 2012

As a member of the Physical Security team here at SpiderLabs, some of my job ...

Guidance for firms using the NetAccess N-1000

September 26, 2012 | Jonathan Werrett

SpiderLabs' Incident Response team has recently seen credit card fraud ...

Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my hashes, so hack me maybe?

September 25, 2012

Those familiar with password cracking know that KoreLogic's rule set for John ...

Did I do that? (PenTest Faux Pas)

September 25, 2012

Many times, in the course of explaining what I do to others that are unfamiliar ...

JSON Hijacking Demystified

September 24, 2012 | Rohini Sulatycki

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a language and platform independent format ...

Wherever you come from, you can meet BeEF

September 24, 2012

This year I've been very busy in terms of conferences, and ...

CVSS for Penetration Test Results (Part II: Attack Sequences)

September 24, 2012 | Tim Maletic

CVSS needs to be extended to accommodate combinations of vulnerabilities. The ...

The First Few Months of Penetration Testing: What they don't teach you in School

September 24, 2012 | Alex Fernandez-Gatti

I entered into school with the hope and dream of someday entering into the ...

Analysing X-Cart Compromises

September 24, 2012 | Marc Bown

Recently I've found myself performing a lot of forensic examinations of X-Cart ...

Oracle DBMS_Scheduler Fun on Windows!

September 20, 2012

So, last time I showed how to get a Unix reverse shell up and running just by ...

The New Zero-Day in Internet Exploder (Oops… Explorer)

September 20, 2012 | Rami Kogan

The ride on the rollercoaster called the web security world never stops and ...

Web Application Defense: Bayesian Attack Analysis

September 20, 2012

Regular Expressions for Input Validation If your web application defensive ...

Exploiting Users By Non-technical Means; or, “S Users Do”

September 18, 2012 | Barry O’Connell

Numerous technical articles emerge each day about the latest vulnerabilities, ...

Chat server fuzzing, Part 1. The Beginning

September 14, 2012 | Art Dahnert

This article (along with subsequent articles) will cover the journey I've taken ...

No, the Internet Does Not ‘Just Work’

September 12, 2012 | Space Rogue

The recent GoDaddy DNS outage illustrates that the Internet does not just work ...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday September 2012 – Update those Certs!

September 11, 2012

As we mentioned last week there are only two patches this month! Not to mention ...

Vulnerability Spidey Sense - Demystifying PenTesting Intuition

September 10, 2012 | Chris Vinecombe

In Louisville, Kentucky next month at Derbycon, Daniel Crowley and I will be ...

PenTesting: From Low Risk Issues to Sensitive Data Compromising

September 07, 2012 | Bruno Oliveira

Yes, I imagine you are probably tired to see blog posts about "real-world" ...

Getting a Start in the Security Industry

September 06, 2012 | Nate Sanders

This has been a fairly common topic over the last year and I've seen plenty of ...

Microsoft Advanced Notification for September 2012 - Bad News, Good News

September 06, 2012 | Space Rogue

Microsoft has released its Advanced Notification for September 2012. The bad ...

Hackers and Media Hype: Big Hacks that Never Really Happened

September 05, 2012 | Space Rogue

If you combine the dictionary definitions for 'media' and 'hype' you come up ...