This is the best part of the whole series, as in this part I will tell you, what to do to protect yourself from prying eyes, whether the prying eyes are of hackers, or oppressing regimes (This is such a relative term 🙂 ). It’s usually such a good feeling when you realize and appreciate …
The biggest threat to privacy is the attitude of “AH, what would someone do with my email address, phone number or social security number”. Thanks to the awareness in security and security terminology becoming a fad and the names of attacks becoming more and more attractive, non-security savvy people are starting to somewhat understand the …
This is a three-part special. The first part of this three-part special would include, what privacy means to a normal person, how it impacts the normal day-to-day life of that person, the facts about what is going on in the cyber world, in terms of privacy. The second part would comprise of the mistakes that …
Back when I had dial-up internet, I used to host stuff on my computers and give my public IP to friends so that they could enjoy or make use of, what I had to share. Back then there wasn’t any Facebook, hi5, orkut, or any chat mobile apps. The only cool thing we had was …
A few weekends back i was wondering how do malware evade antivirus solutions, is it really that easy ? With that in mind i started looking at some known malware piece and randomly pick a anti malware solutions to my surprise AVs can still be tricked with old technique such as string substitution method, so …
Oracle Web Center XSS Details ======================================================================================== Product: Oracle Web Center [Versions 11.1.1.9.0, 12.2.1.1.0, 12.2.1.2.0] Security-Risk: High Remote-Exploit: yes Vendor-URL: https://www.oracle.com/ CVE-ID: CVE-2017-10075 CVSS: 8.2 Credits ======================================================================================== Discovered by: Owais Mehtab & Tayeeb Rana Affected Products: ======================================================================================== Oracle Web Center [Versions 11.1.1.9.0, 12.2.1.1.0, 12.2.1.2.0] Description ======================================================================================== Two Cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities have been identified in …
I have been writing and preaching about Social network information harvesting and why it is a bad thing (Check out the post here). I recently stumbled upon something, which is, publicly known though, but still worth mentioning. The mentioned “something” is a very good example of why too much information about one’s self is never …
Hi folks, Multiple vulnerabilities were found in the Sitecore version 8.2. Which were reported to Sitecore CMS on the 5th of May,2017. A patch was released on the 27th of June, 2017. It is recommended to update the Sitecore CMS installation. The exploit is being made public after the patch has been released. Exploit:[CVE-2017-11439, CVE-2017-11440] …
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During one of the pentest assignment i had to perform security assessment for VMWare Horizon View Client, since it’s native windows application the attack vectors are different than normal web apps. I started looking at the memory then traffic then registries found nothing, i was at a total loss…. Fortunately since it’s a native application …
[Re-post] Original Post, posted on: 15th Feb, 2014 on Xc0re blog. While going through the Icewarp client I found that it is possible to inject malicious HTML Element tags into the email and cause a Cross site Scripting (XSS) payload to be executed. The versions that I tested on, were : 11.0.0.0 (2014-01-25) x64 (http://demo.icewarp.com/) …
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