It’s been a long time since we’ve heard about a problem with FreeBSD, partially because the mass of people using it isn’t that large and secondly because BSD tends to be pretty secure as operating systems go.
It’s a pretty serious flaw this time with root escalation, thankfully it’s only a local exploit though and not [...]

Apache.org has been hacked quite a number of this times, last week it happened again and the whole infrastructure was down for a few hours while they sorted out what had happened and how to remedy it.
Apparently one the remote SSH keys was compromised allowed attacked to upload code, the scary part is they could [...]

Ah it’s Wordpress again, sometimes I wonder how many holes there are in Wordpress. I guess a dedicated attacker could find some serious ones with the complexity of the code base.
It’s suspected some of the recent high profile breaches have come from Wordpress exploits.
The latest one to become public is a simple but effective flaw, [...]

Damn Vulnerable Web App (DVWA) is a PHP/MySQL web application that is damn vulnerable. Its main goals are to be light weight, easy to use and full of vulnerabilities to exploit. Used to learn or teach the art of web application security.

Vulnerabilities

SQL Injection
XSS (Cross Site Scripting)
LFI (Local File Inclusion)
RFI (Remote File Inclusion)
Command Execution
Upload Script
Login Brute [...]

BugSpy is an interesting web site I came across recently, put together using a Python Framework (django) it aggregates bugs from as many open source projects as it can find. Preferably critical bugs.

You can search by tag (e.g java, email or php ) or by product name (e.g Ubuntu, Typo3 or Samba).
http://bugspy.net/
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winAUTOPWN is a TooL to Autohack your targets with least possible interaction. The aim of creating winAUTOPWN is not to compete with already existing commercial frameworks like Core Impact (Pro), Immunity Canvas, Metasploit Framework (freeware), etc. which offer autohacks, but to create a free, quick, standalone application which is easy to use and doesn’t require [...]

Secure programming is a huge issue and it’s the lack of it that causes all the problems we have with vulnerabilities and the exploits associated with them. If everywhere developers followed secure programming practices we wouldn’t have buffer overflow issues or unsanitized parameters leading to SQL Injection.
The NSA (National Security Agency), working with MITRE, SANS, [...]

If your organisation is using any kind of Cisco Wi-Fi kit it may be time to get the latest patches for your kit. Although they state there is no proof that hackers have used this attack in the wild – in my experience if Cisco have discovered this now, someone else probably knew about it [...]

To continue with some software targeted towards security and self-protection after posting about Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) and Microsoft Security Assessment Tool (MSAT) we continue with one more – Secunia Personal Software Inspector. We did write about this software way back when Secunia first came out with their Secunia Software Inspector.
There’s now 3 versions [...]

This is a fairly interesting subject I think as a lot of people still ask me if they are entering the security field if they still need to learn Assembly Language or not?
For those that aren’t what it is, it’s pretty much the lowest level programming languages computers understand without resorting to simply 1’s and [...]