PenTesting: From Low Risk Issues to Sensitive Data Compromising

Yes, I imagine you are probably tired to see blog posts about "real-world" PenTesting, people ...

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Microsoft Advanced Notification for September 2012 - Bad News, Good News

Microsoft has released its Advanced Notification for September 2012. The bad news is that there are ...

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Getting a Start in the Security Industry

This has been a fairly common topic over the last year and I've seen plenty of blog posts and ...

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Hackers and Media Hype: Big Hacks that Never Really Happened

If you combine the dictionary definitions for 'media' and 'hype' you come up with "A means of ...

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CryptOMG Walkthrough - Challenge 1

It has been about 3 months since CryptOMG was released and I will start going through the ...

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Phishing Evolves: Rogue IVRs

As someone who's worked in the financial industry for years, I'm fascinated by methods used by ...

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The Patsy Proxy: Getting others to do your dirty work

Patsy (slang) - A person easily taken advantage of, cheated, blamed, or ridiculed. My girlfriend ...

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Client-side Payload - The Brazilian Way.

My name is Wendel Guglielmetti Henrique, and I'm a senior security consultant at Trustwave's ...

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WAF Normalization and I18N

Submitted By Breno Silva Pinto and Ryan Barnett

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TWSL2012-019: Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Support Incident Tracker

Trustwave SpiderLabs has published a new advisory today for a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability ...

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Backward Compatibility Plays to Malware’s Hands

Maintaining backward compatibility in software products is hard. Technology evolves on a daily ...

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How to Get the Most Out of a PenTest

Being a PenTester for Trustwave Spiderlabs, I work with a huge amount of clients ranging from three ...

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Stripe-CTF Walkthrough

I had the opportunity to do the Stripe-CTF (Capture The Flag) contest this past week, and enjoyed ...

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How Antivirus Saved the Day…Sort of.

Recently, I found myself in a common situation—helping a comrade in our Incident Response division ...

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It's a sunny (zero) day for Java

Java exploits have been used for distributing malware for a while. See for example our blog post ...

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PTJ Undermines Your Blinky Light Box

So, you just bought that fancy new box with the blinky lights that's supposed to somehow keep you ...

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All Your Password Hints Are Belong to Us

This past weekend I ended up coming into the SpiderLabs office and "nerded out" with my good friend ...

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DEF CON 20: French Fry, Pizza, or Rotten Apples?

If you currently do a search online for a female's perspective about DEF CON, everything is coming ...

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2012 – Staying Alive In Gale Crater

As you install the nine updates that came out of Microsoft this month, five of which are critical ...

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Poems from The Palms

SpiderLabs gathered for its annual meeting in Las Vegas recently. Though no poet laureate as people ...

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One Factor, Two Factor, Three Factor, More

There has been a lot of talk online today about how Matt Honan, a reporter for Gizmodo, was the ...

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Stamping Out Hash Corruption, Like a Boss

Have you ever dumped LM and NTLM password hashes from a Windows system using the registry and never ...

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TWSL2012-014: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Scrutinizer NetFlow sFlow Analyzer

The SpiderLabs team at Trustwave published a new advisory today, which details four vulnerabilities ...

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Announcing the availability of ModSecurity extension for IIS

This blog post has also been posted on the Microsoft Security Research and Defense site: By: Greg ...

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PenTest Manager 2.0 - Attack Sequences

Trustwave recently launched PenTest Manager 2.0, a major enhancement of the innovative Trustwave ...

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Reducing web application attack surface

For as long as companies rely on web sites to do business with their customers and partners, ...

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Spiders are FUN! Party at DEF CON

Hey folks! This week a fair amount of us (15k) are heading to Vegas for Black Hat / BSides / DEF ...

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Beyond Apache: ModSecurity for IIS/Nginx is Coming

The Trustwave SpiderLabs Research Team is proud to announce that, through a collaboration with the ...

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