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BayThreat Follow-up: More About Mobile Devices and Privacy

December 15, 2011 | Luiz Eduardo Dos Santos

We just saw a recent post here on SpiderLabs Anterior about one of mostly used ...

Mobile Device Location Tracking, and Why It Matters

December 14, 2011

Throughout the past decade, there has been a substantial increase in mobile ...

[Honeypot Alert] Awstats Command Injection Scanning Detected

December 13, 2011 | Ryan Barnett

Issue Detected Our daily web honeypot analysis has detected an increase in ...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2011

December 13, 2011

This Patch Tuesday, there are 3 new Critical and 10 new Important Bulletins. ...

[Honeypot Alert] WordPress/Joomla/Mambo SQL Injection Scanning Detected

December 09, 2011 | Ryan Barnett

Our web honeypot analysis today detected scanning looking for SQL Injection ...

[Honeypot Alert] WordPress/Joomla/Mambo SQL Injection Scanning Detected

December 09, 2011 | Ryan Barnett

Our web honeypot analysis today detected scanning looking for SQL Injection ...

[Honeypot Alert] Mass Joomla Component LFI Attacks Identified

November 17, 2011 | Ryan Barnett

Joomla Component LFI Vulnerabilities Joomla has hundreds of Controller ...

Trustwave Protections Deployed: MS11-083

November 15, 2011 | Robert Foggia

Last week, it was Microsoft's Patch Tuesday! For November, Microsoft released ...

Trustwave Protections Deployed: Duqu

November 06, 2011 | Robert Foggia

Recent reports of the zero-day exploit found in the Win32k True Type Font ...

NickiSpy.C - Android Malware Analysis Demo

October 26, 2011 | Josh Grunzweig

Recently I got the chance to dig into a nice little piece of Android spyware, ...

ModSecurity Advanced Topic of the Week: Commercial Rules Overview

October 04, 2011

As you may have heard, Trustwave recently announced the availability of ...

Interesting Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities

September 30, 2011

Recently I've been writing a talk called "Authentication Bypass Zoo: Pwnage and ...

Google Android Focus Stealing Vulnerability Demo

September 27, 2011

Way back in August 2011, myself and Sean Schulte gave a presentation at DEF CON ...

TWSL2011-013: Multiple Vulnerabilities in IceWarp Mail Server

September 23, 2011

The Spiderlabs team at Trustwave published a new advisory today which detail ...

Trustwave Releases New ModSecurity Rules and Support

September 22, 2011

ModSecurity is the most popular open source web application firewall (WAF) ...

Blinkie Lights howto by nosteve

September 22, 2011 | nosteve

At DEF CON 19, I showed a project that uses an LED matrix to display network ...

Analyzing PDF Malware - Part 1

September 22, 2011

Background

Advanced BNAT in the Wild

September 15, 2011 | Jonathan Claudius

Just this week, we were asked to help out with some "TCP weirdness" that was ...

ModSecurity Advanced Topic of the Week: Remote File Inclusion Attack Detection

September 11, 2011 | Ryan Barnett

Remote file inclusion (RFI) is a popular technique used to attack web ...

Morto: More than Meets the Eye

September 06, 2011 | Josh Grunzweig

There's been a lot of talk the past week or so about Morto. For those ...

Implementing AppSensor Detection Points in ModSecurity

August 31, 2011 | Ryan Barnett

This is a follow-up to a previous blog post entitled "Real-time Application ...

Detecting Malice with ModSecurity: (Updated) CSRF Attacks

August 30, 2011 | Ryan Barnett

UPDATE - since this original post, we added new data manipulation capabilities ...

(Updated) Mitigation of Apache Range Header DoS Attack

August 24, 2011 | Ryan Barnett

Update After deeper research into the underlying vulnerability and analyzing ...

ModSecurity Advanced Topic of the Week: (Updated) Exception Handling

August 23, 2011 | Ryan Barnett

UPDATE - since this original post, we added new exception handling capabilities ...

What Do Bug Bounties Cover?

August 19, 2011

Over the past few days in the UK we have been bombarded with arguments and ...

ModSecurity Advanced Topic of the Week: Automated Virtual Patching Script

August 18, 2011 | Ryan Barnett

Automated Virtual Patching Example Script

ModSecurity Advanced Topic of the Week: Audit Log Searching with ModGrep

August 11, 2011 | Ryan Barnett

This is an updated section from my previous book Preventing Web Attacks with ...

Auto-BAHN: Using Smart phones to create emergency, ad hoc networks

August 10, 2011 | Thomas Wilhelm

Thomas Wilhelm, Sr. Security Consultant at Trustwave SpiderLabs, revealed a ...