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CryptOMG Walkthrough - Challenge 1

September 05, 2012

It has been about 3 months since CryptOMG was released and I will start going ...

Phishing Evolves: Rogue IVRs

August 30, 2012

As someone who's worked in the financial industry for years, I'm fascinated by ...

The Patsy Proxy: Getting others to do your dirty work

August 30, 2012 | Dan Crowley

Patsy (slang) - A person easily taken advantage of, cheated, blamed, or ...

TWSL2012-019: Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Support Incident Tracker

August 29, 2012 | Robert Foggia

Trustwave SpiderLabs has published a new advisory today for a Cross-Site ...

Client-side Payload - The Brazilian Way.

August 29, 2012 | Wendel Guglielmetti Henrique

My name is Wendel Guglielmetti Henrique, and I'm a senior security consultant ...

Backward Compatibility Plays to Malware’s Hands

August 29, 2012 | Moshe Basanchig

Maintaining backward compatibility in software products is hard. Technology ...

Stripe-CTF Walkthrough

August 29, 2012 | Ryan Linn

I had the opportunity to do the Stripe-CTF (Capture The Flag) contest this past ...

WAF Normalization and I18N

August 29, 2012 | Ryan Barnett

Submitted By Breno Silva Pinto and Ryan Barnett

How to Get the Most Out of a PenTest

August 29, 2012 | Nathan Drier

Being a PenTester for Trustwave Spiderlabs, I work with a huge amount of ...

How Antivirus Saved the Day…Sort of.

August 28, 2012 | Josh Grunzweig

Recently, I found myself in a common situation—helping a comrade in our ...

It's a sunny (zero) day for Java

August 27, 2012 | SpiderLabs Researcher

Java exploits have been used for distributing malware for a while. See for ...

PTJ Undermines Your Blinky Light Box

August 27, 2012

So, you just bought that fancy new box with the blinky lights that's supposed ...

All Your Password Hints Are Belong to Us

August 22, 2012 | Jonathan Claudius

This past weekend I ended up coming into the SpiderLabs office and "nerded out" ...

DEF CON 20: French Fry, Pizza, or Rotten Apples?

August 21, 2012

If you currently do a search online for a female's perspective about DEF CON, ...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2012 – Staying Alive In Gale Crater

August 14, 2012 | Space Rogue

As you install the nine updates that came out of Microsoft this month, five of ...

Poems from The Palms

August 13, 2012 | Martin Murfitt

SpiderLabs gathered for its annual meeting in Las Vegas recently. Though no ...

Stamping Out Hash Corruption, Like a Boss

August 07, 2012 | Jonathan Claudius

Have you ever dumped LM and NTLM password hashes from a Windows system using ...

One Factor, Two Factor, Three Factor, More

August 07, 2012

There has been a lot of talk online today about how Matt Honan, a reporter for ...

TWSL2012-014: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Scrutinizer NetFlow sFlow Analyzer

July 27, 2012 | Robert Foggia

The SpiderLabs team at Trustwave published a new advisory today, which details ...

PenTest Manager 2.0 - Attack Sequences

July 26, 2012

Trustwave recently launched PenTest Manager 2.0, a major enhancement of the ...

Announcing the availability of ModSecurity extension for IIS

July 26, 2012 | Ryan Barnett

This blog post has also been posted on the Microsoft Security Research and ...

Spiders are FUN! Party at DEF CON

July 25, 2012

Hey folks! This week a fair amount of us (15k) are heading to Vegas for Black ...

Reducing web application attack surface

July 24, 2012 | Breno Silva

For as long as companies rely on web sites to do business with their customers ...

Beyond Apache: ModSecurity for IIS/Nginx is Coming

July 20, 2012 | Ryan Barnett

The Trustwave SpiderLabs Research Team is proud to announce that, through a ...

Spam Down II: Grum Down

July 20, 2012 | Phil Hay

So the media is abuzz with news of the takedown of the Grum botnet, which has ...

Analyzing PDF Malware - Part 3D

July 19, 2012 | Ryan Merritt

Pentesting like an Eastern European

July 18, 2012 | Jonathan Werrett

Through SpiderLabs' Incident Response and Penetration Testing services we get a ...

Hashcat Per Position Markov Chains

July 18, 2012 | Daniel Turner

I just wanted to let you guys know about some interesting work Atom has been ...