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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BugSpy – Crawls The Web For Open Source Software Bugs
[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/
Hackers Target 0-Day Vulnerability In Adobe PDF Reader & Acrobat
[ad] Another flaw in the Adobe product suite! It seems like PDF is turning into a complex animal, complexity of course always brings more security issues. It was only back in February last year when there was a bug in Adobe Reader, and almost exactly a year later another one. This time it’s a zero-day […]
Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) 1.0
[ad] To continue with some software targeted towards security and self-protection after posting about Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) and Microsoft Security Assessment Tool (MSAT) we continue with one more – Secunia Personal Software Inspector. We did write about this software way back when Secunia first came out with their Secunia Software Inspector. There’s now […]
Modern Exploits – Do You Still Need To Learn Assembly Language (ASM)
This is a fairly interesting subject I think as a lot of people still ask me if they are entering the security field if they still need to learn Assembly Language or not? For those that aren’t what it is, it’s pretty much the lowest level programming languages computers understand without resorting to simply 1’s […]