Web Application Security Consortium Announced

February 26, 2004

A new organisation has just been announced: the Web Application Security ...

Paper on passive information gathering

February 11, 2004

TechicalInfo.Net is an excellent resource for Web Security information. Gunter ...

AVDL Committee Draft is out

February 07, 2004

This morning I got news of AVDL becoming a Committee Draft; you can get it ...

JIRA license for ModSecurity

February 04, 2004

I am very happy to announce that I've been granted a free JIRA license to use ...

Free Apache hardening utility

February 03, 2004

Syhunt, a security tool company from Brazil, have released a free Apache ...

New Apache module: mod_log_forensic

January 21, 2004

A new module has been added to the Apache CVS repository: mod_log_forensic. It ...

End of year post!

November 15, 2003

I thought a post to mark the end of the year would be in order. It has been a ...

File interception supported

November 14, 2003

Building on the multipart/form-data support I added to mod_security the other ...

Multipart support added

November 11, 2003

Over the weekend I worked on adding the multipart/form-data support to ...

A milestone reached

October 30, 2003

I feel like I've reached a new milestone with mod_security. First of all, it is ...

Updated the Snort rules conversion script

October 20, 2003

The new version of the script to convert Snort rules into mod_security rules is ...

Converted Snort rules to mod_security rules

October 08, 2003 | SpiderLabs Anterior

I wrote a simple Perl script to convert Snort rules to mod_security rules and ...

Enhanced rules now available

September 23, 2003 | SpiderLabs Anterior

The last change before the 1.7 release is now in the CVS. I have refactored the ...

Cookie parsing added

September 20, 2003 | Trustwave SpiderLabs

Now you can analyse cookies using new selective filtering variables ...

Masking your web server

September 15, 2003 | SpiderLabs Anterior

There is a new feature available in the CVS, and it allows you to mask your web ...

Changed name to Web Security Blog

September 13, 2003

I decided to change the name of this blog to "Web Security Blog". I figured ...

Output filtering now in CVS

August 25, 2003

The new output filtering functions are now in CVS. I implemented this feature ...

New action: pause

August 01, 2003

I have added a new action to the CVS, called "pause". It accepts one parameter, ...

Added Unicode encoding validation

July 24, 2003 | SpiderLabs Anterior

I've just committed the Unicode validation feature to the CVS. It is a very ...

Selective Filtering

July 18, 2003

I've just added a new feature to mod_security (CVS, both versions) that allows ...

Fun with PHP CLI scripts

July 12, 2003

I've had quite a lot of "fun" with PHP CLI scripts the other day. As you ...

Apache chrooting simplified

June 11, 2003

I've added a new (and experimental) feature to mod_security (CVS and Apache 1.x ...

URL decoding bug fixed

June 06, 2003

I just fixed a small bug in the URL decoding routine. Apparently, I forgot to ...

Porting mod_security to Windows

June 04, 2003 | SpiderLabs Anterior

With module functioning well on Unix-based platforms I decided to start with ...