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.
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Information Security, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Assessment | w0lf | January 22, 2010 | 
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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.
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Information Security, Network Security, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Assessment | w0lf | July 30, 2009 | Comments (0)
active X, black hat USA 2009, inter, internet explorer, killbit bypass, MS09-032, ms09-034, ms09-035
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.
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Here’s an extract from their site
July 16, 2009 — Insecure.Org is pleased to announce the immediate, free availability of the Nmap Security Scanner version 5.00 from http://nmap.org/. This is the first stable release since 4.76 (last September), and the first major release since the 4.50 release in 2007. Dozens of development releases led up to this.
Considering all the changes, we consider this the most important Nmap release since 1997, and we recommend that all current users upgrade.
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Milw0rm web site which is one of the best exploit / POC resource is no longer accepting any submission
the last post was made on july 3 2009
The admin of milw0rm str0ke has posted a message on the top of the web site saying tht:
“Well, this is my goodbye header for milw0rm. I wish I had the time I did in the past to post exploits, I just don’t 
. For the past 3 months I have actually done a pretty crappy job of getting peoples work out fast enough to be proud of, 0 to 72 hours (taking off weekends) isn’t fair to the authors on this site. I appreciate and thank everyone for their support in the past.
Be safe, /str0ke ”
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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.
Well, as always, Microsoft has vowed to keep as busy by releasing critical patches. The list this tuesday is as follows:
MS09-018
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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
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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Application Security, Evil particles, Information Security, Network Security, Vulnerability Assessment | w0lf | May 28, 2009 | Comments (3)
adobe, gumblar.cn, HPP, http parameter pollution, IIS webdav, microsoft
Hi folks!!!
Its patch tuesday again. This time MS has released 1 critical and 2 important patches.
Details:
1. Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-006 – Critical
Vulnerabilities in Windows Kernel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (958690)
This security update resolves several privately reported vulnerabilities in the Windows kernel. The most serious vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user viewed a specially crafted EMF or WMF image file from an affected system.
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Network Security, Vulnerability Assessment | w0lf | March 11, 2009 | Comments (0)
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Ahaa!! Microsoft seems to be really pissed off by the impact of conficker worm that it has announced an award of $250000 for the arrest of its author. Conficker is the real latest worm that has badly hit millions of users using Microsoft Windows. Well good luck for catching the author but here I will mention some tips which can help in conficker arrest.
1. Admin access. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights. Also a study also found that eliminating Admin rights would have stopped or mitigated: Read more »
