GHOST gethostbyname() heap overflow in glibc (CVE-2015-0235)

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in glibc (CVE-2015-0235) was announced this week.

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SpiderLabs Radio for the Week of January 19, 2015

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A New Zero-Day of Adobe Flash is used by the Prevalent Angler Exploit Kit in the Wild

Just yesterday, security researcher Kafeine discovered a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash ...

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JSON Crypto Helper a Ruby-based Burp Extension for JSON Encryption/Decryption - Part III

This is the third in a three-part series about how to write a simple Ruby extension that helps deal ...

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JSON Crypto Helper a Ruby-based Burp Extension for JSON Encryption/Decryption - Part II

This is the second post in a three-part series about how to write a simple Ruby extension that ...

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JSON Crypto Helper a Ruby-based Burp Extension for JSON Encryption/Decryption - Part I

Burp Suite is one of my favorite tools when performing security assessments of web applications. ...

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SpiderLabs Radio for the Week of January 12, 2015

In this week's episode we discuss Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure in the wake of Google's ...

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, January 2015

Happy New Year and welcome to the first Microsoft Patch Tuesday of 2015. This year's January ...

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SpiderLabs Radio for the Week of January 5, 2015

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Deobfuscating Malicious Macros Using Python

Over the past few weeks, we've observed cybercriminals spamming users, particularly in the UK, ...

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No Country For Old Vulnerabilities

Finding a common cross-site scripting vulnerability in Cisco's new IOS Software Checker Feature.

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Building my own personal password cracking box

Since 2003, I've spent a majority of my workdays hacking systems. I've collected tons of ...

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[Honeypot Alert] Wordpress Wp Symposium 14.11 - Unauthenticated Shell Upload Exploit Attempt

Our web honeypots picked up some exploit attempts for the recently released vulnerability in the WP ...

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Signed Ruby Gems: A c7decrypt walk-through

As someone who's responsible for a number of Ruby projects, both open-source and commercially ...

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Announcing Net::TNS for Ruby – A Gem for Connecting to Oracle Databases

For the security professional, working with Oracle Database can present some…challenges. Not least ...

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Alina POS malware 'sparks' off a new variant

Alina is a well-documented family of malware used to scrape Credit Card (CC) data from Point of ...

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SpiderLabs Radio for the week of December 8, 2014

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New Device Module (DM) update for Trustwave SIEM 1.2.1 now available

Trustwave's most recent Device Module (DM), DM-22, is now available to customers in the TrustKeeper ...

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, December 2014

December's Microsoft Patch Tuesday is upon us and, hopefully, marks the last batch of bulletins for ...

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CVE-2014-3797: Reflected XSS Vulnerability in VMware Virtual Center Appliance (vCSA)

Trustwave SpiderLabs published an advisory today in conjunction with VMWare for a systemic ...

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Magnitude Exploit Kit Backend Infrastructure Insight - Part III

This is the fourth post in a four-part series about Magnitude (if you like, read the first, second, ...

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SpiderLabs Radio for the week of December 1, 2014

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Microsoft Advance Notification for December 2014

Microsoft will publish the last scheduled security release of the year on Tuesday, December 9th. ...

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SpiderLabs Radio for the week of November 24, 2014

SpiderLabs Radio is taking a hiatus this week to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. We give thanks ...

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ModSecurity Advanced Topic of the Week: Detecting Malware with Fuzzy Hashing

We witnessed a sophisticated phishing campaign on 16th August 2017, targeting victims by sending ...

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Magnitude Exploit Kit Backend Infrastructure Insight - Part II

Welcome back to another edition of "exposing Magnitude exploit-kit internals"! As already mentioned ...

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SpiderLabs Radio for the week of November 17, 2014

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SpiderLabs Radio for the week of November 10, 2014

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