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CGISecurity.com: Your Web Site and Application Security Resource
I recently attended RSA and had a chance to see the cryptography panel. Towards the end of the panel an amusing amount of bickering began between the former NSA technical director (Brian snow) and folks such as Whit Diffie (inventor of diffie hellman key exchange), and Adi Shamir (co founder of RSA...
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CGISecurity.com: Your Web Site and Application Security Resource
From the announcement "Web Security Dojo is a turnkey web application security lab with tools, targets, and training materials built into a Virtual Machine(VM). It is ideal for both self-instruction and training classes since everything is pre-configured and no external network connection is needed. All tools and targets are configured to use...
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CGISecurity.com: Your Web Site and Application Security Resource
"A new update to the Watcher passive vulnerability detection and security testing tool has been released. Watcher is an open source addon to the Fiddler Web proxy that aids developers, auditors, and penetration testers in finding Web-application security issues as well as hot-spots for deeper review." - Casabasecurity The full announcement can...
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CGISecurity.com: Your Web Site and Application Security Resource
Someone has published an amusing cheat sheet that will allow you to fuzz barcode scanning systems for common input validation issues such as XSS and SQL Injection. They even provide an online barcode generator which allows you to create your own payloads. Not much else to say really :) Link: http://www.irongeek.com/xss-sql-injection-fuzzing-barcode-generator.php
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CGISecurity.com: Your Web Site and Application Security Resource
I haven't really been posting advisories on this website for the past year, however a series of XML Injection/XXe vulnerabilities in Adobe products caught my eye. XML Injection is to web services, what XSS is to web pages (an attacker controllable application response able to perform abuses against the consumer). This advisory...
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CGISecurity.com: Your Web Site and Application Security Resource
Brian Holyfield has published an entry on using Windows WCF to perform backend port scanning. This is possible due to the callback functionality WCF provides. From his article "Last weekend at Shmoocon, I demonstrated how an attacker can trick certain WCF web services into performing an unauthorized port scan of machines behind...
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CGISecurity.com: Your Web Site and Application Security Resource
I was luck enough to assist in this project and I must say that a lot of great discussions took place. Unlike many other top x security lists, SANS/MITRE's methodology is fairly extensive and well documented giving you insight into how decisions were made. I do want to point out that top...
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CGISecurity.com: Your Web Site and Application Security Resource
Larry Suto published a report comparing the various commercial web application security scanners. As you'd expect the vendors are likely to respond about how inaccurate the report is, however in this case both HP and Acunetix argued valid points. From Acunetix "They were not found because Larry didn’t authenticated our scanner (didn’t...
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CGISecurity.com: Your Web Site and Application Security Resource
The latest version of Apache 1.3.42 is the last 1.3 version of Apache that will be released. I admit I've been running 1.3 for ages now due to it being rock solid and having a decent security track record. The announcement states that security patches 'may be available' at http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/patches/ but consider...
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CGISecurity.com: Your Web Site and Application Security Resource
Sullo has sent the following announcement to the full disclosure mailing list indicating a new release of Nikto. "I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Nikto 2.1.1! Nikto is an open source web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 6100 potentially dangerous files/CGIs,...