Friday, August 29th, 2008
ISR-evilgrade is a modular framework that allow us to take advantage of poor upgrade implementations by injecting fake updates and exploiting the system or software.
How does it work?
It works with modules, each module implements the structure needed to emulate a false update of specific applications/systems. Evilgrade needs the manipulation of ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Do-it-all suites are the name of the security game these days. Sure, you can gather free programs that cover the bases much as a suite would, but who wants to bother with finding out which apps work together and which ones might leave you pulling your hair out?We do. And ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Secunia, the security services provider, has issued a security advisory about a vulnerability in Trend Micro's OfficeScan 8.0 and Worry-Free Business Security 5.0 that makes it easier for attackers to take control of the web management of those products. According to Secunia, the web-based configuration interface uses a pseudo-random token ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine. The code was merged today (but is not yet ready to be enabled by default in the nightly builds) and is planned for inclusion in Firefox 3.1, the next incremental update ...
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
As you all probably known since version 3 Nessus turned to a proprietary model and started charging for the latest plugins locking most of us out. Now we finally have a new, properly organised forked development with the name of OpenVAS - at last a decent and free Vulnerability Scanner!OpenVAS ...
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