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This is not necessarily news anymore since it was discussed on the Websecurify official blog but we are so excited about it that we could not hold ourselves from posting it here too.

The testing engine used in this particular version of Websecurify is optimized to run with the least possible amount of memory. The results of the scanner are as good as those produced by all other Websecurify variants although in some cases it may miss some statistically unlikely types of issues. [...]

I have been avoiding the topic about Stuxnet for quite some time, mainly because there were many others who spent the time to take the virus apart. However, here is a video, which I find rather amusing:

Wether this is the real deal or simply fear mongering, I simply don’t know. It is all speculations at the moment. [...]

We haven’t featured any guest bloggers in a while, but we’re glad to be featuring Chirstian Frichot this month! Christian is a security professional based in Perth, Western Australia. He’s currently working in the finance industry as part of a tight-knit internal team of security consultants doing their best to protect their business and customers from technical threats such as malware or insecure web applications. [...]

A new Adobe hotfix for ColdFusion has been released recently. The vulnerability which was discovered by Richard Brain, was rated as important by Adobe and could affect a large number of Internet-facing web servers. The FAQ bellow is meant to shed some light on this vulnerability so that ColdFusion administrators can understand what they’re up against. [...]

In case you haven’t heard yet, HITBSecConf is hosting the first European Edition of their conference in Amsterdam during 1st-2nd July ’10. The history of the HITB conferences can be traced back to 2002, the year in which the first ever edition of HITB took place in Malaysia. Since then, HITB has grown to become the biggest technical computer security event in Asia and has extended their presence to the Middle East and now Europe. [...]

This article is a continuation of the following GNUCITIZEN articles: here, here, here, here and here.

As we know, there are several ways one could go about hunting for IP cameras on the net. The slowest way would be to portscan random IP addresses for certain ports and programmatically detect if the web interface of a given camera was available on the open ports found. [...]

After working on dnsmap for a few months whenever time allowed, I decided there were enough additional goodies to make version 0.30 a new public release. Let me just say that a lot of the bugs that have been fixed, and features that have been added to this version would not be possible without the feedback from great folks such as Borys Lacki (www.bothunters.pl), Philipp Winter (7c0.org) and meathive (kinqpinz.info). Thanks guys, your feedback was highly valuable to me. [...]

Remember those old remote command exec vulns where you had a CGI script such as a perl program which would take input from the client to construct command strings that would then be passed to the shell environment? Well, there were tons of those affecting diagnostic scripts available on the web interface of Avaya Intuity Audix LX.

These vulnerabilities, although cool, are not critical since you need to be logged into the interface in order to exploit them. [...]

What is the best way to spend a quiet, weekend afternoon? – Jump off a perfectly working plane while 10,000 feet in the air.

On 5th of July 2009, the GNUCITIZEN team and friends came together to perform a skydiving gig. It has been two months since that day but memories are still as clear as yesterday.

Automated Web Application Security Testing tools are in the core of modern penetration testing practices. You cannot rely 100% on the results they produce, without considering seriously their limitations. However, because these tools are so good at picking the low-hanging fruit by employing force and repetition, they still have a place in our arsenal of penetrating testing equipment.

These tools are not unfamiliar to modern day penetration testers. [...]