Microsoft Patch Tuesday, April 2017
April Patch Tuesday is here and, like the change of the seasons, this release comes with changes in ...
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Understanding and Discovering Open Redirect Vulnerabilities
One of the most common and largely overlooked vulnerabilities by web developers is Open Redirect ...
Read MoreAnd Then? Where is the Risk with Steganography?
In the previous posts, Steganography... what is that? and Steganalysis, the Counterpart of ...
Read MoreProtecting Yourself from MongoDB Ransomware
In the realm of malware, ransomware has been king for the last few years, compromising unsecured ...
Read MoreExploiting Privilege Escalation in Serv-U by SolarWinds
I was recently working on an external network penetration test where I identified a new ...
Read MoreAuthentication and Encryption in PAS Web Shell Variant
Introduction During a recent incident response case, we were tasked with discovering the point of ...
Read MoreDatabase Security Knowledgebase Update 5.12
This month's update for Database Security Knowledgebase is now available. Knowledgebase version ...
Read MoreMicrosoft Patch Tuesday, March 2017
We knew that the Microsoft's Valentine's gift to cancel Patch Tuesday on February 14th was only ...
Read MoreUndocumented Backdoor Account in DBLTek GoIP
Trustwave recently reported a remotely exploitable issue in the Telnet administrative interface of ...
Read MoreHanz Ostmaster’s revenge: An SSL Validation issue
Why would I title a blog post with the name 'Hanz Ostmaster'? Don't worry, it's not some new named ...
Read MoreUnauthenticated Backdoor Access in Unanet
The default configuration of the Unanet web application has a backdoor that can allow ...
Read MoreDatabase Security Knowledgebase Update 5.11
This month's update for Database Security Knowledgebase is now available.
Read MoreUnderground Scams: Cutting the Head Off a Snake
Shortly after publishing our post about Terror EK, "King Cobra" (a Twitter account that we ...
Read MoreCVE-2017-5521: Bypassing Authentication on NETGEAR Routers
Home routers are the first and sometimes last line of defense for a network. Despite this fact, ...
Read MoreSVG Files Are Not As Benign As It May Seem
Bad guys are getting quite creative trying to evade spam filters and antivirus scanners. Last week, ...
Read MoreCreating the ModSecurity v3 IDS connector as part of Google Summer of Code
A note from the Trustwave Spiderlabs ModSecurity team:
Read MoreTwo Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities in McAfee Security Scan Plus
This post will discuss two separate Local Privilege Escalation vulnerabilities in the McAfee ...
Read MoreIs ModSecurity’s SecRules Turing Complete?
Have you ever seen a rule for ModSecurity? They may look similar to the following:
Read MoreOperation Grand Mars: a comprehensive profile of Carbanak activity in 2016/17
The Trustwave SpiderLabs team has been actively tracking a malicious campaign conducted by the ...
Read MoreMicrosoft Patch Tuesday, January 2017
It's everyone's favorite Patch Tuesday, January's Patch Tuesday. Historically January has always ...
Read MoreTerror Exploit Kit? More like Error Exploit Kit
Q: What does it take to create a simple, yet fully functioning exploit kit?
Read MoreSteganalysis, the Counterpart of Steganography
In my last blog post I discussed the art of embedding secret messages in any file so that only the ...
Read MoreMicrosoft Patch Tuesday, December 2016
December's Patch Tuesday is here to greet you with the pleasant tidings of patches for all of your ...
Read MoreA Backdoor in Skype for Mac OS X
Trustwave recently reported a locally exploitable issue in the Skype Desktop API Mac OS-X which ...
Read MoreNew Carbanak / Anunak Attack Methodology
In the last month Trustwave was engaged by multiple hospitality businesses for investigations by an ...
Read MoreOWASP Core Rule Set 3.0.0 (Final) release
The OWASP Core Rule Set (CRS) team is excited to announce the immediate availability of the OWASP ...
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