The big news yesterday was an epic XSS flaw on Twitter that sent the micro-blogging service into chaos. They actually made an announcement during the hack that users should stay off the web-site and use 3rd party services through the API (Software such as Tweetdeck, Seesmic, Gravity etc). They posted an update on the status […]
Exploits/Vulnerabilities
Critical Zero Day Abobe Flash Flaw Puts Android Phones At Risk
Adobe hasn’t been having the best of luck recently with a string of serious PDF exploits in their Reader software and now in less than a week two critical flaws in Flash. This is a pretty serious flaw and sadly proves Steve Jobs right for not supporting Flash on the iPhone and Ipad. A new […]
Microsoft Investigates IE CSS Cross-Origin Theft Vulnerability
There’s a lot of circumstantial evidence surround this as Microsoft themselves haven’t clarified or publicly announced anything related to the CSS Cross-Origin Theft bug – but it seems fairly clear. Some media sources are quoting it as a ‘new bug‘ – which it isn’t, according to other sources it has been known about for at […]
Deutsche Post Security Cup – Bug Bounty Contest
The trend of paying for bugs is certainly catching on, the most recent entrant to the field is Deutsche Post the German postal service. They announced this week a security cup for their new online secure messaging service. The bug bounty trend has resurfaced recently with Mozilla increasing its bounty to $3000 and Google increasing […]
Windows Binary Planting DLL Preloading/Hijacking Bug
The big news that is turning the infosec world inside out this week is about a new DLL pre-loading/hijacking bug which effects more than 200 Windows applications including some produced by Microsoft itself. The basis of this exploit is the way in which Windows works and how it loads DLL files used by many applications, […]