Well this seems to be a frequently recurring theme, yes there is yet another critical 0day vulnerability in Adobe products – pretty much across the board this time. It was that long ago that a critical flaw in Flash put Android phones at risk. The core vulnerability exists in Flash but it’s being actively exploited […]
Archives for October 2010
Firesheep Download – Session Hijacking Tool For Windows
A huge wave has been made by this Firesheep in the mainstream media this week as it makes session hijacking a click and go procedure for Windows. It was released at Toorcon 12 and is simply a Firefox Add-on. What is Firesheep? Stealing sessions/passwords and so on is something we’ve been able to do for […]
Hackers Exploit Unpatched Firefox 0day Using Nobel Peace Prize Website
It’s been a while since Firefox has been in the news, but this is a fairly high profile case involving the Nobel Peace Prize website. It seems there is a race condition vulnerability in the latest versions of Firefox (including 3.6.11) that allows remote exploitation. In this case it was used via an iFrame on […]
The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) – Computer Based Social Engineering Tools
The Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) is specifically designed to perform advanced attacks against the human element. SET was designed to be released with the http://www.social-engineer.org launch and has quickly became a standard tool in a penetration testers arsenal. SET was written by David Kennedy (ReL1K) and with a lot of help from the community it has […]
Malware Pushers Abuse Firefox Warning Page
This is a pretty neat attack from the malware pushes leveraging on the ignorance of the average user – which in all honestly is a safe bet most of the time! You could consider it a Social Engineering attack as it’s taking something that’s familiar and changing it to deliver malware. I’m sure all the […]