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 in less than a year, when last August, the main…
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 vulnerability is affecting a POST parameter in the Mambo…
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 application security – heading in the wrong direction. First off,…
The top Web vulnerability we face
I recently took some time off which gave me the opportunity to clear my head and think about some of the big issues we’re facing with Internet security. I thought if I had to pick one thing, what would be the greatest Web vulnerability out…
Top 10 Reasons Not to Invest in Website Security
For some light humor! 1) You really enjoy waking up in the morning with your coffee, hitting your homepage, and finding a new page marketing ‘special offers’ for ‘enhancement’ products… You spill your coffee, burn…ouch. 2) You just love getting a hosting bill showing your…
Authenticated XSS – problem or not?
Obviously, cross-site scripting (XSS) is a big problem on the public Web. But there’s another angle to XSS that no one seems to be talking about – at least I’m not seeing anything on it. It’s the issue of XSS on Web pages that are…
e107 CMS system website compromised
As part of my job here at Acunetix, from time to time I analyze source code looking for security problems. Using this information I adjust Acunetix WVS to detect these problems automatically (when it’s possible). Monday, I downloaded e107 from e107.org and started analyzing the…
Security is hard
The year debuted with ‘Operation Aurora‘: Google and over 30 other companies were hit by a spear phishing attack which resulted in theft of intellectual property from Google and probably other companies. Spear phishing is a targeted form of phishing in which an e-mail message might look…
2009 Security News Update – PCI Council, Aweber, Adobe – Hacks and Cracks
Back for the last entry of 2009, here are the latest updates in the security world: Aweber announces its own incursion into its site, unnumbered amount of email addresses pilfered. AWeber was recently the victim of an intentional attack to mine email addresses. We’d like…