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What Web Application Security Monitoring Can Learn From Casino Surveillance

New Edition of SpiderLabs Radio - Interviews with SpiderLabs DEF CON Speakers

This month, Zack Fasel and Tom Mackenzie interview the SpiderLabs Team Members presenting at DEF ...

Detecting Malice with ModSecurity: HoneyTraps

This week's installment of Detecting Malice with ModSecurity will discuss how to implement ...

Live ModSecurity Challenges at Blackhat Arsenal

ModSecurity is participating in the upcoming Blackhat Arsenal Tools Demo next week in Las Vegas.

ModSecurity SQL Injection Challenge: Lessons Learned

This is a post-mortem blog post to discuss the successful Level II evasions found by participants ...

A whole lot of Spiders at DEF CON 19

Next week members of Trustwave's SpiderLabs team will be headed to Las Vegas to attend DEF CON 19. ...

TWSL2011-007: iOS SSL Implementation Does Not Validate Certificate Chain

The SpiderLabs team at Trustwave published a new advisory today, which details an issue identified ...

Advanced Topic of the Week: (Updated) Real-time Blacklist Lookups

Updated - the information in this blog has been updated to reflect the current RBL enhancement ...

Announcing Release of ModSecurity v2.6.1

Availability of ModSecurity 2.6.1-RC1 Release (July 18, 2011) The ModSecurity Development Team is ...

Spiders Are FUN!!! at DEF CON 19

DEF CON's coming up soon (3 weeks to be exact), and there's a lot of excellent talks lined up, ...

(Updated) ModSecurity Advanced Topic of the Week: Mitigating Slow HTTP DoS Attacks

Update - the latest version of the ModSecurity 2.6 has a new directive called SecWriteStateLimit ...

Announcing Release of ModSecurity v2.6.1-RC1

Availability of ModSecurity 2.6.1-RC1 Release (June 30, 2011) The ModSecurity Development Team is ...

Announcing the ModSecurity SQL Injection Challenge

The ModSecurity Project Team is happy to announce our first community hacking challenge!

ModSecurity Advanced Topic of the Week: Application Logout Response Actions

Application Defense Response Actions What is the best way to respond to suspicious transactions ...

TWSL2011-006: IBM Web Application Firewall Bypass

The SpiderLabs team at Trustwave published a new advisory today, which details an issue identified ...

Patch the Vuln - Feathers - SQLi(1)

Spot the Vuln -> Patch the Vuln SpotTheVuln This blog post series is designed to be a companion ...

Patch the Vuln - Feathers - SQLi

Spot the Vuln -> Patch the Vuln SpotTheVuln This blog post series is designed to be a companion ...

My Other Ride is Your Image Upload Script(1)

Many security issues are based upon mistaken assumptions. For instance, when testing applications, ...

My Other Ride is Your Image Upload Script

Many security issues are based upon mistaken assumptions. For instance, when testing applications, ...

TWSL2011-004: Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in ZyXEL ZyWALL 70 Firewall(1)

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

ModSecurity Advanced Topic of the Week: Unicode Mapping Support

ModSecurity Happy Hour at Blackhat USA 2011

I am excited to announce that SpiderLabs will be hosting a ModSecurity Happy Hour during the ...

Announcing Release of OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set v2.2.0

The ModSecurity Development Team is pleased to announce the release of the OWASP ModSecurity Core ...

Analysis and Evolution of MacDefender OS X Fake AV Scareware

Over the last month, a new fake AV scareware variant has been circulating for OS X which has been ...

Announcing Release of ModSecurity v2.6.0

The ModSecurity Development Team is pleased to announce the availability of ModSecurity 2.6.0 ...

National Cyber Safety Awareness Day is May 17th

We're taking a short break from our normal technical posts to write about "National Cyber Safety ...

Analyzing Malware Hollow Processes

The Malware Analyst's Cookbook is a great book. In it the authors talked about an interesting ...

Latest Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID) Entries

These are the lastest entries added by SpiderLabs to the Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) ...