Cross-Site Request Forgery is a term you’ve properly heard in the context of web security or web hacking, but do you really know what it means? The OWASP definition is as follows: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) is an attack that forces an end user to execute unwanted actions on a web application in which they’re […]
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No BEAST Fix From Microsoft In December Patch Tuesday – But They Fixed Duqu Bug
Last updated: September 9, 2015 | 8,155 views
It looks like Microsoft originally had a patch for the BEAST vulnerability, but for some reason they have withdrawn it for the December Patch Tuesday.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 […]
FreeBSD Local Root Escalation Vulnerability
Last updated: September 9, 2015 | 20,932 views
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 […]
Apache.org Hacked Using Remote SSH Key
Last updated: September 9, 2015 | 10,073 views
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 […]
WordPress 2.8.3 Admin Reset Exploit
Last updated: September 9, 2015 | 54,952 views
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 […]
Topic: Exploits/Vulnerabilities, Web Hacking
Damn Vulnerable Web App – Learn & Practise Web Hacking
Last updated: September 9, 2015 | 21,842 views
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 […]
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