Resources Mobile Threat Report, Q1 2012- f-secure.comIt’s time to publicly release our latest Mobile Threat Report, covering the 1st quarter of 2012. Our Q4 2011 report was quite popular and this new one for Q1 is even better. More content (and pages) for your reading pleasure. A closer look into the RSA SecureID software token- [...]

Resources Research for SharePoint (MOSS) – owasp.org This page contains research notes on Microsoft’s SharePoint MOSS and WSS MS SQL – Useful Stored Procedures for SQL Injection and Ports Info – pentesticles.com The following post lists and describes various useful stored procedures and port information for MS SQL. Portable Executable 101 – a windows executable [...]

Resources Breaking in to Security – Survey Conclusions, Part 1 – digininja.org To collect the data I created an online survey and sent it out through as many sources as I could, to date I’ve got over 300 results and I’d like to say a huge thanks to everyone who completed it and helped with [...]

Event Related Our CanSecWest 2012 slides on passive DNS and Picviz – picviz.blogspot.fr Alexandre Dulaunoy from CIRCL.LU and Sebastien Tricaud from Picviz Labs have been talking at CanSecWest 2012 in Vancouver, Canada, on how to scrutinize a country using passive DNS and Picviz. SyScan 2012 Singapore slides – www.xchg.info Conference and slides of SyScan 2012 [...]

Event Related Hackito Ergo Sum 2012 TALKS // Hackito Ergo Sum 2012 – 2012.hackitoergosum.org In this presentation we will cover critical aspects of web applications, and how these techniques can be used on real life scenario on big (and highly “secured”) websites. These bugs and methods will be able to assist you in your next [...]

Event Related A cyber weapon – alexmgeorge.wordpress.com At RSA 2012 Dave Aitel made a presentation wherein he defined cyber weapons a bit outside of how people normally think. The tried and true metaphor (which I admit to using) is that exploits or frameworks are like guns, and if they’re like guns then it’s easy to [...]

Event Related AppSecDC AppSecDC Recap: Old Webshells, New Tricks – novainfosecportal.com Back in the day web shells were all the rage so I was curious what “new” was happening in this area. Ryan Kazanciyan started off with a summary of some of the more poplar web shells he’s seen in the past several years. AppSecDC [...]

Event Related Pwn2Own Lesson From Pwn2Own: Focus On Exploitability – darkreading.com The Pwn2Own contest earlier this month at the CanSecWest Conference showed off the speed with which knowledgeable security professionals can code exploits for known vulnerabilities. On the failings of Pwn2Own 2012 – scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com This year’s Pwn2Own and Pwnium contests were interesting for many reasons. [...]

Event Related CanSecWest 2012 Hardware Involved Software Attack – forristal.com Material for CanSecWest 2012 by Jeff Forristral Vulnerability analysis, practical data flow analysis and visualization – blogs.technet.com Recently at CanSecWest 2012, we presented on the technology we use for analyzing malicious samples and PoC files. As malware often actively attempts to exploit software vulnerabilities these [...]

Event Related Black Hat Europe 2012 Summaries, Updates and Tools BlackHat Europe 2012 Day #1 Wrap-Up – blog.rootshell.be BlackHat is back in Europe and, this year, they moved back to Amsterdam! This edition also introduced a new format: A three-days conference with three simultaneous tracks. BlackHat Europe 2012 Day #2 Wrap-Up – rootshell.be And I’m [...]