Hacking Challenge #2 – HSIYF for Charity
Offsec has teamed up with the crew at Hackers For Charity and the world’s premier Hacker Con – BlackHat, to provide another amazing cyber hacking challenge.
Read MoreBackTrack 4 R1 Dev Public Release
As promised, we are releasing a BackTrack 4 R1 information security and penetration testing development build to the public for hardware testing.
Read MoreBackTrack 4 Release 1 (R1 Dev)
The release of BackTrack 4 unleashed a whirlwind of over 1 million downloads. Information Security specialists and Penetration Testers from all over the world showing their support and love for the product that has become the #1 Penetration Testing Distribution.
Read MoreMalicious Google Gadgets in Action
A new report by emgent shows malicious Google Gadgets in action. The vulnerability lies in the ability of a malicious user to add their own Gadgets on a separate domain space, without Google’s authorization. The attack variant shown in the movie can be altered to steal cookies, run arbitrary JavaScript on victim machines, and could be further weaponised to great Malicious Google Gadget worms.
When researching this topic, we found references to similar vulnerabilities which date back to 2007, reported by Tom Stracener and Robert Hansen.