Advanced Topic of the Week: XSS Defense via Content Injection

September 28, 2010

Introduction In last week's post on Identifying Improper Output Handling, we ...

Advanced Topic of the Week: Identifying Improper Output Handling (XSS Flaws)

September 21, 2010

A Topic Presents Itself

Automated Padding Oracle Attacks With PadBuster

September 14, 2010 | Brian Holyfield

An automated script for performing Padding Oracle attacks.

Advanced Topic of the Week: Validating SessionIDs

September 14, 2010 | SpiderLabs Anterior

This week's topic discusses how to validate application SessionIDs submitted by ...

WASC WHID Bi-Annual Report for 2010

September 09, 2010 | SpiderLabs Anterior

The Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID) is a project dedicated to maintaining ...

Advanced Topic of the Week: Real-time Blacklist Lookups

September 07, 2010 | SpiderLabs Anterior

This week's feature is the effective use of Real-time Blacklist lookups (@rbl).

Advanced Topic of the Week: Transformation Functions

September 01, 2010 | SpiderLabs Anterior

This week's feature is the effective use of Transformation functions.

OWASP ModSecurity CRS Project Promoted to Release Quality

August 30, 2010 | SpiderLabs Anterior

I am excited to announce that the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) has ...

OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) v2.0.8 Released

August 27, 2010 | SpiderLabs Anterior

Greetings everyone, I wanted to announce the availability of the OWASP ...

Advanced Topic of the Week: Validating Byte Ranges

August 24, 2010

We are starting a new blog post series here on the ModSecurity site called ...

What's up @ ModSecurity?

August 11, 2010

Since Black Hat and DEFCON we have been busying building teams and aligning ...

ModSecurity Happy Hour @ Black Hat USA

July 21, 2010

ModSecurity Community,

Impedance Mismatch and Base64

April 22, 2010 | SpiderLabs Anterior

There was a recent blog article stating that ModSecurity can be bypassed by ...

OWASP AppSec DC Update

November 13, 2009

I presented on the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) Project yesterday here ...

ModSecurity Training at Blackhat USA 2009

July 19, 2009 | SpiderLabs Anterior

Just a quick note to let everyone know that a 2-day ModSecurity training class ...

ModSecurity Vulnerabilities Fixed

March 12, 2009 | SpiderLabs Anterior

ModSecurity versions 2.5.8 and 2.5.9 have been released to fix two ...

Fixing Both Missing HTTPOnly and Secure Cookie Flags

December 22, 2008 | SpiderLabs Anterior

In a previous post I showed how you can use both ModSecurity and Apache ...

Helping Protect Cookies with HTTPOnly Flag

December 20, 2008 | SpiderLabs Anterior

If you are unfamiliar with what the HTTPOnly cookie flag is or why your web ...

Securing WebGoat using ModSecurity

October 30, 2008

This year, the OWASP's Summer of Code event contains one project that's of ...

ModSecurity's Source Code Repository Is Now Open

October 29, 2008 | SpiderLabs Anterior

I spent the last week importing ModSecurity's source code repository into ...

ModSecurity at ApacheCon US 2008

October 10, 2008 | SpiderLabs Anterior

In a few weeks' time I will present my favourite talk, Web Intrusion Detection ...

ModProfiler Presentation at OWASP AppSec Israel 2008

September 11, 2008 | SpiderLabs Anterior

I will be giving the updated version of our ModProfiler presentation this ...

ModProfiler: Leading ModSecurity Towards Positive Security

September 08, 2008 | SpiderLabs Anterior

Several years ago, a few more than I'd like to admit, I realised our chances ...

ModSecurity Issue Tracker Now Available

August 27, 2008 | SpiderLabs Anterior

I am happy to announce that we've just launched a public issue tracking ...

Microsoft and Oracle Helping 'Time-to-Fix' Problems

August 07, 2008 | SpiderLabs Anterior

Before I talk to the title of this post, I have to provide a little back story. ...

ModSecurity 2.5.6 and Mlogc

August 04, 2008 | SpiderLabs Anterior

The ModSecurity Log Collector (mlogc) is used to send ModSecurity audit log ...

Transformation Caching Unstable, Fixed, But Deprecated

August 01, 2008

We have just released ModSecurity 2.5.6 to address several issues with ...

ModSecurity In Solaris

July 29, 2008 | SpiderLabs Anterior

Although Solaris has been supported as a platform for ModSecurity since the ...