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Spam Down: Where is Lethic?

July 17, 2012 | Phil Hay

At Trustwave SpiderLabs we keep a close eye on spam trends. We keep and publish ...

What did the Java applet say to the SWF? Don't leave me alone in this Blackholeee!

July 16, 2012 | SpiderLabs Researcher

Last week as we were analyzing the new version of Blackhole with the new Java ...

Conference tips from your friends at Trustwave SpiderLabs

July 11, 2012 | SpiderLabs Anterior

We are quickly approaching the largest security conference week on the planet. ...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 2012 – TLS and Office for Mac?

July 10, 2012

We have nine bulletins to deal with this month three of which are rated ...

How much data? Apache, Ubuntu and the Lies of the Logs.

July 03, 2012 | Ryan Jones

Forensic investigators rely heavily on log file data in order to analyse ...

Analyzing PDF Malware - Part 3C

July 03, 2012 | Ryan Merritt

Let me explain, no there is too much, let me sum up… This is part 3C in the ...

Apex Secure Coding Considerations

July 02, 2012 | Rohini Sulatycki

Apex is an on-demand language that extends the Force.com platform by providing ...

Wham Bam, the Cutwail/Blackhole Combo

July 02, 2012 | Phil Hay

Over the past few weeks we have seen a resurgence of malicious spam with links ...

Stolen Laptop Recovery via OSX Trap Partition

July 02, 2012

My Macbook Air has 2 partitions, one that is my normal everyday partition that ...

Oops, I pwned your router- Part One

June 30, 2012 | Videoman

Embedded computing is very much about making a computer as small as possible, ...

Analyzing PDF Malware - Part 3B

June 27, 2012 | Ryan Merritt

Down that dusty trail… As the big blue letters above state, this is part 3B of ...

eHarmony Password Dump Analysis

June 26, 2012 | Mike Kelly

Unless you've been hauled up in a bunker, eating MREs and watching Doomsday ...

Security Capture the Flag Competitions

June 24, 2012 | John Hoopes

Many people look at capture the flag competitions with varying reactions. Some ...

I Forgot Your Password

June 24, 2012 | Chris Vinecombe

I'm now going into my second year in application security, and as I learn more ...

Five E-Commerce Security Myths (Part 1)

June 23, 2012 | Marc Bown

Compromises of e-commerce websites are increasingly common. In our 2012 Global ...

Five E-Commerce Security Myths (Part 2)

June 23, 2012

In part 1 of this series I gave an introduction into how most merchants accept ...

CVSS for Penetration Test Results (Part I)

June 22, 2012 | Tim Maletic

Trustwave has been adding support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System ...

Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities Gone Wild

June 20, 2012 | Anat (Fox) Davidi

It's a busy time for Internet Explorer: Patch Tuesday addressed quite a few ...

Metasploit = tips, tricks, hashes and tokens

June 20, 2012

Metasploit is one of the many tools that can be used during a penetration test, ...

[Honeypot Alert] PHP-CGI Vuln Targeted For Database Dumping

June 19, 2012 | Ryan Barnett

Thanks to my SpiderLabs Research colleague @claudijd for collaborating with ...

ModSecurity and OWASP CRS Updates Available

June 15, 2012 | Ryan Barnett

Security Fix Release: ModSecurity v2.6.6 The ModSecurity Development Team has ...

Using Nmap to Screenshot Web Services

June 14, 2012 | Ryan Linn

As part of Trustwave SpiderLabs network penetration testing team, I perform ...

Introducing CryptOMG

June 12, 2012 | Andrew Jordan

CryptOMG is CTF-style testbed for exploiting various flaws in cryptographic ...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday: RDP - Keep on Knockin' But You Can't Come In

June 12, 2012

Another month, another Patch Tuesday. This one has seven bulletins three of ...

MySQL/MariaDB: Trade You a Banana for Root Access?

June 12, 2012 | Jonathan Claudius

Summary

The Return of Zuc.A and and Ancient OSX Viruses?

June 11, 2012 | Space Rogue

A few weeks ago I caught a tweet from Chris Wysopal (@WeldPond) noticing how ...

Zap(ped) into Foca(s)

June 08, 2012 | Theresa

An external penetration test isn't just about the network addresses to pwn, but ...

Analyzing PDF Malware - Part 3A

June 08, 2012 | Ryan Merritt

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