It looks like Microsoft originally had a patch for the BEAST vulnerability, but for some reason they have withdrawn it for the December Patch Tuesday. It’s a pretty bumper crop of patches though with 13 bulletins and 19 vulnerabilities fixed, the highest profile one being a patch for the zero-day vulnerability exploited by Duqu. The […]
Archives for December 2011
sslyze – Fast and Full-Featured SSL Configuration Scanner
Transport Layer Security (TLS), commonly called SSL, is one of the most widely used protocols to secure network communications. As costs fall and user security and privacy expectations rise companies are deploying it more widely every year. Attacks against the CA system, SSL implementation flaws and aging protocol versions have grabbed news headlines, bringing attention […]
GCHQ Code Breaking Challenge Solved Through Googling
This is quite an amusing story, I’m sure many of you have read about the ‘hacking challenge’ set up by GCHQ and that they are looking to hire hackers cyber-security specialists through non-traditional channels. The thing that tickled me was, well there were two things actually..one that the challenge site was coded in ASP and […]
The Mole Download – Automatic SQL Injection Tool For Windows
The Mole is an automatic SQL Injection tool for SQLi exploitation for Windows and Linux. Only by providing a vulnerable URL and a valid string on the site it can detect the injection and exploit it, either by using the union technique or a boolean query based technique. What is The Mole SQL Injection Tool […]