Interview with the spammer
“Scam-Detective: How much money did you earn from scamming people?
Cybercrime, Information Security | w0lf | February 19, 2010 | 
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Microsoft released IE out-of-band patch
Well..Sorry for the long gap. Was stuck with some work as usual 
First of all wish you all a happy New Year!! A bit late to wish but better late than never
The recent (stale) news much around about the Google/Adobe hack a.k.a “Operation Aurora” is suspected to be executed successfully using a zero-day IE exploit. The exploit code is publicly available & Metasploit has also released a module for the same. So now you can expect lotta script-kiddies out in action attacking your corporate/home network.
Microsoft had suggested a workaround for the same earlier this week. But the exploit had been much in wild that it had to release an out-of-band patch for the same. We strongly recommend to implement this patch on higher priority. This vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user simply views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer.
Information Security, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Assessment | w0lf | January 22, 2010 | Comments (0)
exploit, Google Adobe hack, internet explorer, metasploit, microsoft, ms10-002, Operation Aurora, out-of-band
Attackers Exploit Web Application (Service) Flaw to break into the Mail Accounts
HI All
“Attackers are exploiting a known vulnerability in Yahoo’s network to
launch brute force attacks against users’ Yahoo mail accounts. The
attackers are using hijacked mail accounts to send spam. The main Yahoo login page has mechanisms in place that protect accounts from brute force attacks, but the recent attacks have been exploiting a web
application (services) that automates the authentication process and does not have the attack protection in place.”
Users should choose strong password to stay SAFE.
Out of Band released by Microsoft – MS09-34 & 35
This is in continuation of advanced notification released by Microsoft few days back. It has now released MS09-34 and MS09-35 out-of-band patches yesterday. Well we would recommend having MS09-34 (Internet Explorer related bulletin) on your top list.
MS09-35 (Visual Studio active template library) is basically intended for developers of components and controls. Developers who build and redistribute components and controls using ATL should install the update provided in this bulletin. Developers who have built components and controls using ATL should download this update and recompile their components and controls following the guidance provided in the following MSDN article.
Microsoft intending to release 2 out-of-band vulnerbilities
This is an advance notification of two out-of-band security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on July 28, 2009. One bulletin will be for the Microsoft Visual Studio product line; application developers should be aware of updates available affecting certain types of applications. The second bulletin contains defense-in-depth changes to Internet Explorer to address attack vectors related to the Visual Studio bulletin, as well as fixes for unrelated vulnerabilities that are rated Critical.
The severity for Internet Explorer patch has been rated as CRITICAL whereas for Visual Studio has been rated as MODERATE.
Network Security, Vulnerability Assessment | w0lf | July 26, 2009 | Comments (1)
Keypads for doors
Hi
I came across this funny post @ Schneier’s Blog. It displays two images as shown below where the pin numbers on the keypads have mysteriously disappeared… : P
Information Security, Lock Picking | w0lf | July 3, 2009 | Comments (0)
bruteforce, information leakage, key combination, keypad, password, password policy, physical security
Astalavista.com hacked
Alright..I agree this is no big news. But the reason, I thought would mention the thing here is the full disclosure by the attacker (anti-sec group). For those who are new to infosec world can have an idea how attackers can tear you (your site) apart. Luckily, astalavista was not any financial institution. So other webmasters out there, keep vulnerabilities (atleast known) a-bay from your application/OS/webserver etc….
Full disclosure here.
Application Security, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Assessment | w0lf | June 10, 2009 | Comments (0)
9th June 09- Patch tuesday
Well, as always, Microsoft has vowed to keep as busy by releasing critical patches. The list this tuesday is as follows:
Information Security, Information Technology, Network Security, Vulnerability Assessment | w0lf | | Comments (0)
Active Directory, IIS, internet explorer, Kernel, microsoft, Microsoft Office, Microsoft print spooler, MS09-018, MS09-019, MS09-020, MS09-021, MS09-022, MS09-023, MS09-024, MS09-025, MS09-026, MS09-027, patch tuesday, RPC, Windows Search
Back again!!
Hula All!
Back to blogging after a long time. Well, as the saying goes “Be late then never”
Back to Security world there are quite an important news around.
1. Gumblar.cn : This trojan is reported to be spreading rapidly using mainly the adobe vulnerability and other techniques. It captures your key logs, web traffic etc for any sensitive login credentials. Reportedly it mainly targets for FTP credentials. Then it infects the hosted site by injecting the malware download link into its html content. Scansafe has suggested a way of checking if your system is infected?? Good Read.
2. HPP: A subcategory of variable manipulation attack vector. Well, this is technique is not a new face to most of the security testers. Two researchers presented the details at OWASP, Poland. As per the presentation, HPP can be used to
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File upload security recommendations
Blogged here recommentions and security tips for file upload module which is commonly targetted by hackers.
Any feedbacks/suggestions would be of great help
Application Security, Web Application Security | w0lf | March 26, 2009 | Comments (0)
