Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The first thing I suspect when someone tells me that their PC is running slowly is that they may be dealing with adware or spyware. Typically, a computer infected with this type of malware will display other symptoms as well. Odd behavior such as pop-up ads, your internet home page ...
Posted in General BS, Hardware, Internet, Networking, Privacy, Security, Windows | 2 Comments
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The folks over at Darknet do a great job of pointing out interesting tools for use in penetration testing and web app security testing among other things. I won’t be duplicating their feed here, but when I see something that I want to test for myself, I will be posting ...
Posted in Coding, Internet, Linux, Privacy, Security, Software | No Comments
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
A new version of Wfuzz is available, many improvements and fixes since first release which was in the middle of 2007. Fuzzing is definitely in, an article was posted recently about how everyone should keep on fuzzing! Will post it up soon.
Wfuzz is a tool designed for bruteforcing Web Applications, ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Microsoft continued to release formerly closely-held application protocol documentation Tuesday, posting 14,000 pages of information for Microsoft Office 2007, SharePoint Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 at MSDN, a Web site for developers.
The protocol information released includes protocols that allow Exchange Server to communicate with Outlook and those used by Office ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Researcher Dan Kaminsky plans to show how a web-based attack could be used to seize control of certain routers.
Kaminsky has spent the past year studying how design flaws in the way that browsers work with the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) can be abused in order to get attackers behind ...
Posted in Hardware, Internet, Privacy, Security | 1 Comment
