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Articles by Sandro Gauci

Sandro has over 8 years experience in the security industry and is focused on analysis of security challenges and providing solutions to such threats. His passion is vulnerability research and has previously worked together with various vendors such as Microsoft and Sun to fix security holes. Sandro is the founder of EnableSecuirty and author of the free VoIP security scanning suite SIPVicious (sipvicious.org). He can be contacted at sandro@enablesecurity.com.

What do American Express and Facebook have in common?
December 18, 2008 – 3:09 pm | No Comment

Cross Site Scripting seems to be the word of the past few days with high profile sites getting featured on the technology news sites. ZDNet reported how Facebook just fixed four XSS security flaws affecting …

Why upgrade PHP to 5.2.8? Part 1
December 10, 2008 – 2:22 pm | One Comment

Note: PHP 5.2.7 is the actual version that fixes the below security holes. PHP 5.2.8 fixes an issue introduced in 5.2.7. Details from the PHP news site.

A new version of the popular scripting language, PHP …

Two factor authentication and Web Application Security
November 28, 2008 – 6:42 pm | No Comment

A few days ago PayPal announced that they will be supporting Mobile Access for the PayPal Security Key. This means that to log into their accounts, PayPal users receive a 6 digit security code via …

How Cross Site Scripting can lead to a Windows Domain compromise
November 20, 2008 – 3:58 pm | No Comment

Many times internal web applications are excluded from the scrutinity that external ones are subjected to. It is often assumed that attackers are on the external side of the network and therefore do not have …

Facebook worm on the loose
November 12, 2008 – 8:50 pm | No Comment

A worm abusing Facebook‘s messaging system is making rounds between friends. It consists of an executable worm known as Koobface that runs on the victim’s computer and searches for Facebook cookies on his or her …