Spoofing an Admin’s Cookies Using Burp

Spoofing Cookies

Here is a quick little video I put together to show you how spoofing a users cookies works. This is not a real example, in most instances an application like Burp suite would be used in conjunction with a XSS attack or some equivalent attack. The objective is to get someone with higher privileges to…

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Update WPSCAN using GIT on BackTrack 5R2

Website Security Expertise

So I have been playing with a number of tools lately and this was perhaps one of the easiest things I couldn’t figure out. Talk about having a “WTF” moment. If you’re curious, wpscan is a vulnerability scanner designed to pentest WordPress applications. It has a number of features that allow you to enumerate usernames, plugins, and…

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Java Zero Day: Two Vulnerabilities

Security Warnings

Yesterday was an interesting one for the security world, it was a buzz over the new Java 0-Day and today is no different. It turns out however that it’s not just one (1) zero-day, it’s two and they were introduced back in July of 2011. We shared our initial thoughts on the vulnerability yesterday. Today…

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Accessing Your Server via SSH Keys

Access Granted

The past couple of weeks I have found myself dabbling in a number of system / network centric tasks. In the process I have been configuring a number of servers and thinking through a number of initial tasks that need to be taken. From time to time I find myself compelled to take a few…

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My New OSSEC HIDS Book

Security Book

Pretty excited, today I got my very own copy of the OSSEC Host-Based Intrusion Detection (HIDS) Guide in the mail. If you haven’t heard about it, it was developed a few years back and was founded by our founder at Sucuri, Daniel Cid. Its core features include:

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Uninstall ModSecurity & WordPress Challenges

Uninstall Modsecurity WordPress Challenges

Ok, as simple as a post as this might appear I recently undertook an effort to install and configure ModSecurity on my little server. In the process I quickly learned a number of things, specifically that I needed to uninstall from my production box and push it over to a staging box. I’m not a…

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