[ad] 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/
Archives for 2009
Google Poisoning Attack Gumblar Still Causing Problems
[ad] I thought this would have been stamped out by now, but sadly it’s still going on. With the advent of cheap web hosting and easy to use CMS systems like WordPress more and more people are managing their own websites (gone are the days of Geocities). More people with websites means more FTP details […]
Stupid E-mails – Brute Force, Change School Grades, Hack US Military & MORE
It’s been a few months since the last update, and it’s definitely been slower since I posted the disclaimer and link on the Contact Page. There have been some weird ones, one worders, one liners and stuff in foreign languages. Anyway let’s get started with a classic ‘script-kiddy I can’t operate my computer‘ type mail. […]
Samurai Web Testing Framework 0.6 Released – Web Application Security LiveCD
[ad] You may remember we wrote about Samurai being released back in November 2008, it’s been quite a while since the last update. The authors have updated and fixed a number of issues with the environment as well as improved performance of the java based tools. They have also included a virtual machine of the […]
Trojan in Counterfeit Copies of Windows 7 Builds Botnet
[ad] This latest mass infection is through a vector I really don’t understand, see as though you can legitimately download Windows 7 from Microsoft. I guess people just prefer BitTorrent downloads to HTTP downloads, and whoever had this smart idea capitalized on that. Microsoft should perhaps do something about that and put out a legitimate […]