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The new OWASP Top 10 for 2010 – Risk and Realities
April 27, 2010 – 10:30 pm | 3 Comments
The new OWASP Top 10 for 2010 – Risk and Realities

Kudos to Jeff Williams, Dave Wichers, and the rest of the OWASP team for pulling together the final release of the OWASP Top 10 for 2010. Obviously, a lot of thought and work has gone …

Gray Powell and the lost iPhone, and malware
April 20, 2010 – 3:45 pm | 2 Comments
Gray Powell and the lost iPhone, and malware

In case you didn’t hear about it already, the story of the day is Gray Powell and the lost iPhone. So I searched for him on Google.
I was really surprised to see that 4 out …

The road to glory, from XSS to Root on apache.org
April 14, 2010 – 8:35 pm | No Comment
The road to glory, from XSS to Root on apache.org

On the 9th of April 2010, Apache.org infrastructure suffered a direct and targeted attack on the server hosting the Apache issue-tracking software, Atlassian JIRA.  This is the second major compromise the Apache Software Foundation suffered …

VIDEO: Exploiting a Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in Mambo CMS
April 13, 2010 – 6:53 pm | 5 Comments
VIDEO: Exploiting a Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in Mambo CMS

In this video we look into the details of how an attacker is able to exploit a Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in Mambo CMS (version: 4.6.5), discovered by Bogdan Calin with Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner.
This …

Acunetix WVS Version 6.5 build 20100407 released
April 7, 2010 – 7:28 pm | No Comment
Acunetix WVS Version 6.5 build 20100407 released

An updated build of Acunetix WVS Version 6.5 has been released.  This build includes a number of bug fixes
Bug Fixes:

Fixed: Login Sequence Recorder was not using client certificates when recording a login sequence
Fixed: Login Sequence …

Fighting Web flaws is futile
April 6, 2010 – 6:59 pm | One Comment
Fighting Web flaws is futile

Do you ever find yourself driving down the road in an unfamiliar place and you get that gut feeling that you’re headed in the wrong direction? Well, I feel that’s exactly where we are with …