SSRF or Server Side Request Forgery is an attack vector that has been around for a long time, but do you actually know what it is? Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) refers to an attack where in an attacker is able to send a crafted request from a vulnerable web application. SSRF is usually used […]
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Jack – Drag & Drop Clickjacking Tool For PoCs
Jack is a Drag and Drop web-based Clickjacking Tool for the assistance of development in PoCs made with static HTML and JavaScript. Jack is web based and requires either a web server to serve its HTML and JS content or can be run locally. Typically something like Apache will suffice but anything that is able […]
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner v11 Released
Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner v11 has just been released with lots of exciting new features and tools. The biggest change is that v11 is now integrated with Vulnerability Management features to enable your organization to comprehensively manage, prioritise and control vulnerability threats – ordered by business criticality. There are other changes too including the web […]
Massive Yahoo Hack – 500 Million Accounts Compromised
So if you are a Yahoo user (which most of us probably have been at some point) you will be aware of the Yahoo Hack – with 200 Million e-mail addresses being up for sale on the black market it seems up to 500 million have been compromised in one of the biggest hacks yet. […]
BeautifulPeople.com Leak Exposes 1.1M Extremely Private Records
So another data breach, and no surprise here, but another dating site. This time the BeautifulPeople.com Leak has exposed 1.1 million customer records, including 15 million private messages sent between users. Not so private now is it. And no surprise either the entry point for this leak, was the not-so excellent NoSQL database MongoDB which […]