Android must be getting popular! It’s always a test of a new platform or OS, when does it start getting serious malware targeting it? It seems like the time for Android is now, the news lately has been buzzing about the DroidDream malware that has been flooding the Android Market. Google pulled a number of […]
Microsoft Attack Surface Analyzer – Test Software Vulnerabilities
Attack Surface Analyzer is developed by the Security Engineering group, building on the work of our Security Science team. It is the same tool used by Microsoft’s internal product groups to catalogue changes made to operating system attack surface by the installation of new software. Attack Surface Analyzer takes a snapshot of your system state […]
Intel Completes $7.68B McAfee Buyout In All-Cash Deal
The big news in the last fews days is that Intel has completed it’s buy-out of McAfee in a $7.6 Billion dollar all-cash deal, it seems like security on the chipset/CPU is going to be a reality. We wrote about the initial acquisition back in August 201 and Intel have been working hard to get […]
JBoss Autopwn – JSP Hacking Tool For JBoss AS Server
This JBoss script deploys a JSP shell on the target JBoss AS server. Once deployed, the script uses its upload and command execution capability to provide an interactive session. Features Multiplatform support – tested on Windows, Linux and Mac targets Support for bind and reverse bind shells Meterpreter shells and VNC support for Windows targets […]
Acunetix WVS (Web Vulnerability Scanner) 7 Review – Engine & Scanning Improvements
We wrote our first review of Acunetix WVS 6 back in January 2009 and published an update about the release of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner (WVS) 6.5 in June 2009. The team over at Acunetix have been working hard on version 7 for quite some time and released a new build with added features earlier […]