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[Honeypot Alert] Status Report for January 2012

February 06, 2012 | Ryan Barnett

Monthly Web Honeypot Status Report We have received a tremendous amount of ...

Clarifying The LevelBlue CA Policy Update

February 04, 2012

We've seen a number of comments and questions on Twitter regarding a recent ...

Death to PDF!

February 03, 2012

SpiderLabs customers are frustrated with PDF reports:

Island Hopping the SpiderLabs Way

February 02, 2012 | Nathan Drier

More and more, I find myself having to fight with highly segmented networks and ...

HOIC DDoS Analysis and Detection

January 27, 2012 | Ryan Barnett

In a previous blog post, we provided details of a DDoS attack tool called LOIC ...

Cuckoo for Cuckoo Box

January 26, 2012 | Ryan Merritt

Cuckoo Sandbox is an automated, open source, malware analysis system that ...

TWSL2012-002: Multiple Vulnerabilities in WordPress

January 24, 2012 | Robert Foggia

Trustwave SpiderLabs has published a new advisory today for multiple ...

On Null Byte Poisoning and XPath Injection

January 23, 2012 | Dan Crowley

Recently I released a tool called XMLmao, a configurable testbed for learning ...

[Honeypot Alert] Simple Page Options Module for Joomla! Local File Inclusion Attack Detected

January 19, 2012 | Ryan Barnett

Our web honeypots generated the following ModSecurity alert today:

Android IRC Bot - This Ain't Your Granny's Android Malware (Or Maybe It Is)

January 18, 2012 | Josh Grunzweig

As I'm sure many of you know, the rise of mobile-based malware has been on the ...

[Honeypot Alert] phpMyAdmin Superglobal Session Manipulation Attack Detected

January 17, 2012 | Ryan Barnett

Our web honeypots have identified attempts to exploit CVE-2011-2505. OSVDB ...

Scripting Metasploit using MSGRPC

January 13, 2012 | Ryan Linn

While there are many aspects of network pen testers that sets the good testers ...

[Honeypot Alert] Is-human Wordpress Plugin Remote Command Execution Attack Detected

January 13, 2012 | Ryan Barnett

Our web honeypot logs picked up an attack aimed at exploiting the Is-human ...

[Honeypot Alert] Extensive 'setup.php' Scanning Detected

January 12, 2012 | Ryan Barnett

The SpiderLabs Research Team has identified an extensive scanning campaign ...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday (January 2012): Media Player and The BEAST

January 10, 2012

The statisticians over at the Patch Tuesday Farmer's Almanac are saying that 7 ...

ModSecurity Mitigations for ASP.NET HashTable DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2011-3414)

January 09, 2012 | Ryan Barnett

ThreatPost had a news story today about PoC code that was released to the full ...

[Honeypot Alert] Multiple Local File Inclusion Attacks

January 09, 2012 | Ryan Barnett

Our web server honeypot log analysis has picked up some targeted local file ...

Analyzing PDF Malware - Part 2

January 06, 2012

Where were we?

ModSecurity Advanced Topic of the Week: Mitigation of 'Slow Read' Denial of Service Attack

January 06, 2012 | Ryan Barnett

Slow-Read DoS Attack Background Another tweak in the ongoing "Slow" DoS attacks ...

Introducing SQLol

January 06, 2012 | Dan Crowley

At the most recent Austin Hackers Association meeting I unveiled a project I've ...

Virtual Patch for ASP.Net Forms Authentication Bypass Vulnerability (CVE-2011-3416)

January 04, 2012 | Ryan Barnett

Last Thursday, Microsoft released an out-of-band security patch (MS11-100) ...

[Honeypot Alert] phpThumb() 'fltr[]' Parameter Command Injection Detected

December 28, 2011 | Ryan Barnett

The SpiderLabs Research Team has identified active scanning for the phpThumb() ...

[Honeypot Alert] Plone and Zope Remote Command Execution Detected

December 27, 2011 | Ryan Barnett

We have identified active scanning for the recent Plone and Zope Remote Command ...

TWSL2011-019: Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in phpMyAdmin

December 23, 2011 | Robert Foggia

The Spiderlabs team at Trustwave published a new advisory for a ...

TWSL2011-018: Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in IBM TS3100/TS3200 Web User Interface

December 21, 2011 | Robert Foggia

The Spiderlabs team at Trustwave published a new advisory for a authentication ...

[Honeypot Alert] User Agent Field Arbitrary PHP Code Execution

December 21, 2011 | Ryan Barnett

While reviewing today's web honeypot logs, SpiderLabs Research identified two ...

[Honeypot Alert] phpAlbum PHP Code Execution Attacks

December 19, 2011 | Ryan Barnett

We have seen a number of scans probing for phpAlbum code execution vulns in our ...

Announcing Release of OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set v2.2.3

December 19, 2011 | Ryan Barnett

The SpiderLabs Research Team is pleased to announce the ModSecurity OWASP Core ...