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Rob Auger from OWASP/WASC/CGiSecurity on Timing..
Rob had a rant on his site on the timing attack, with a CSRF twist.. We met him after our Vegas talk, but im not really sure how his attack differs from our published one.. my on-list response: -snip- From: haroon meer To: bugtraq@cgisecurity.net Cc: websecurity@webappsec.org Subject: Re: [WEB SECURITY] Performing Distributed Brute Forcing of CSRF vulnerable login pages Hi Robert.. Thanks for the kind words on the talk.. If…
Casper and hidden IE windows..
OK.. so it was a long time ago, and old code is supposed to embarrass you.. but i pulled casper.exe form our webpage today to test something for the project im on.. interestingly it runs pretty ok, and actually doesnt look from the outside as ugly as it is underneath.. if you never used casper, take it for a quick spin.. if nothing else u will be suprised by how…
Dino Dai Zovi is such a Rock Star..
Dino is the guy who added much shellcode coolness to MetaSploit, gave the world Karma, released the first virtualization rootkit for Intel (Vitriol), and gave much credibility to the Matasano crowd while he was there.. Although he left the consultancy gig, he popped up briefly again during the year to claim his macbook in the Cansec Hack the Mac challenge and popped up again to break second-life.. http://www.securityevaluators.com/sl/ – -snip-…
The fine line between failure and success
So…because I don’t have a report to write this weekend I’ve had some time to ponder and reflect on stuff (and read my mail)- I thought I’d share some stuff that came to the fore of my mind again now when reading a newsletter. Since the early days of playing competitive sport (in those days it was paintball) I’ve always been astounded as to the intensity of the emotions involved…
Google as an MD5 Cracker..
Slashdot picked up on the blog post from Light Blue TouchPaper commenting on the fact that a researcher was suprised to discover that simply putting an md5 hash into google returned a hit with a mapping to the original word.. This is an interesting concept.. A while back, we decided to fiddle with the concept of using googles indexing and spidering as a new take on the time/space trade-off for…
Follow-up (OS X BSOD Win32 Icons)
Of course, Leopard’s new improved ™ finder includes an Itunes’esque “Cover Flow” view (which includes quick view thumbnailing quite impressively).. Of course, it means you get a better look at the win32 – BSOD :>
Rational vs Emotional Commitment
I’ve spoken before on how I like some of Simon T Bailey’s stuff and his general leetnesses…he has some gems… This one, on rational vs emotional commitment is quite leet and touches on a discussion we had over lunch… -snip- You might be wondering about the difference between rational and emotional commitment. Rational commitment is the “what†that you agree to give an organization when youâ€re hired: your time, talent…
i know this has been blogged all over the interwebs..
but Leopards default icon for windows machines has to rank up there with dvwssr.dll (yeah.. thats a BSOD) /mh ok.. who’s old enough? what was the similarity between this and dvwssr.dll ?
Mind Control, Big Cats, Feynman && kiosks…
Aka… A good weekend.. The weekend got off to a slow start, when Amazon claimed it would take a little longer than planned to ship us the “Web Application Hackers Handbook”. Fortunately it picked up after that.. The first ray of light was finding a new strange bug on a huge application that smells a lot like full remote code execution.. Then the office had a power-outage and i felt…
PauldotCom Interview, Part I
OK.. so part one of our pauldotcom interview has hit the interwebs.. it was fun and involved a power failure and a dog that chewed through charl’s microphone cable about 15 minutes before the interview started.. My thoughts on it were best expressed earlier on irc.. -snip- 12:04 <+MH> i sounded (cleverer/less annoying/less nasal) in my head.. 12:04 <+MH> apparently hearing ur own voice through ur teeth explains (3).. (1)…