We hear a lot about security orchestration, automation, and response. It will help us with our security skills gap. It will improve our operational efficiency, thus reducing mean time to detect and respond to incidents. It will give us more time for threat hunting. But how much is really being automated? In sponsorship with ServiceNow, […]
In PowerShell there are 2 main ways to extend the shell this are: * Modules – A package that contains Windows PowerShell commands int he form of functions, cmdlerts and worksflows, in addition it may contain variables, aliases and providers. Modules can be written in PowerShell and/or compiled as DLLs. * Snap-Ins – Are compiled […]
I encountered something on a penetration test today that I thought was kinda neat. I’m sure that others have encountered this before, but it was the first time I stumbled upon it and thought that this might be a good place to share the experience and keep notes for future use. The scenario goes like […]
This post comes to you from Lamar Spells of http://foxtrot7security.blogspot.com/. ==================== As more companies fall victim to hacks based on SQL Injection and as the regulatory environment becomes more stringent, more and more companies are implementing network-based Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). Shares of one Web Application Firewall maker Imperva (NYSE: IMPV) are up about 40% […]
Reading this article was an exercise in frustration. Mass SQL Injection Attack Hits 1 Million Sites. The sum of it is that over a million ASP.Net websites were written and put online after someone had deliberately disabled input validation. This isn’t an insecure default. Folks turned off the security feature on purpose! I’ve worked on […]
By Mark Baggett The Ethical Hacker Challenges are always a lot of fun. They are usually wrapped in a creative and entertaining movie theme (as if hacking something wasn’t entertaining enough) and always present an interesting technical challenge. I always learn something new with each new challenge. Over the Christmas break I took some time […]
Recently HD added a new mixin for MySQL adding support for connecting and executing queries against MySQL using the MySQL library from tmtm.org. In addition to the library 2 new modules from Bernardo Damele (Author of SQLMap) where added. The modules from Bernardo are: mysql_sql â A simple module for executing queries against MySQL provided […]
Now a days hacking has shifted from attacking systems to know how they work or for the trill of getting into a system for the sake of the hunt but many hackers are doing it for profit, in fact many companies around the world and states are employing hacker for information both for political and […]
Let me start by saying that these are the opinions of a contributor. To this day I have contributed to the project 3 Auxiliary Modules and 16 Meterpreter scripts to the project and I had the honor and privilege to present with HD in Defcon 17 in the Metasploit Trac. I was initially in shock […]
On Friday, July 27, 2007 a very tired member of the Security Weekly crew sat in a standing room only room ar SANSFIRE 2007 to hear about the latest research in VMWare escaping (or really any other virtualization technology). VMWare escaping you say? What’s that? Ed Skoudis, SANS Instructor and co-founder of Intelguardians, true to […]
