[ad] It seems after a brief scan that about 80% of sites contain common flaws that allows them to be compromised in some way, most often to create phishing sites, steal data and hijack info about clients. An amazing 30% contain a serious vulnerability. Eight out of ten Web sites contain common flaws that can […]
Exploits/Vulnerabilities
VBootkit Bypasses Vista’s Digital Code Signing
[ad] At Black Hat Europe (in Amsterdam) security experts from India (Nitin and Vipin Kumar of NV labs) demonstrated a special boot loader that gets around Vista’s code-signing mechanisms. Known as VBoot and launching from a CD and booting Vista it can make on-the-fly changes in memory and in files being read. In a demonstration, […]
The Kcpentrix Project – Penetration Testing Toolkit LiveDVD
[ad] The Kcpentrix Project was founded in May 2005 , KCPentrix 1.0 was liveCD designed to be a standalone Penetration testing toolkit for pentesters, security analysts and System administrators What’s New in KcPentrix 2.0 Now release 2.0 is a liveDVD, It features a lot of new or up to date tools for auditing and testing […]
Hackers Invited to Crack Internet Voting
[ad] This is some pretty interesting news, rather than trying to cover things up like normal during July the Philippine government will be soliciting hackers to test the security of their Internet voting system. I think it’s a great initiative from the International Foundation for Electoral System. Local and foreign computer hackers will be tapped […]
Zalewski (lcamtuf) Strikes Again – More Vulnerabilites in IE and Firefox
[ad] Our Polish friend and expert security researcher, Michal Zalewski (lcamtuf), known for his endless stream of vulnerabilities in all manners of software, has struck again. This time with some pretty serious flaws in both Internet Exploder Explorer and Firefox. This time it’s 4, 2 in IE and 2 in Firefox. The first which effects […]