Press F1 for Help, pwned.

Microsoft published security advisory 981169 yesterday in response to the zero day vulnerability reported a few days prior. The vulnerability is in the help system and can be triggered by luring an Internet Explorer user into pressing the F1 key. Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2 & SP3, and Windows 2003 SP2 with Internet Explorer 7 [...]

Regular or Decaf? Tool launched to combat COFEE

About a month ago, there was much news about the release of COFEE into the torrent wild. I even gave my two cents about the much hyped forensics toolkit which is provided to law enforcement for the purposes of easily capturing volatile data from personal computers during evidence collection. A tool to counter COFEE, aptly [...]

Six Bulletins in Last Patch Tuesday of 2009

Today marks the last Microsoft patch Tuesday of 2009, and Microsoft has released patches to six bulletins:

MS09-071 – Vulnerabilities in Internet Authentication Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution (974318) MS09-074 – Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Project Could Allow Remote Code Execution (967183) MS09-072 – Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (976325) MS09-069 – Vulnerability in Local [...]

From Promiscuous to Port Scanning with Powershell

It’s been a while since my last post regarding Powershell which showed how to scan hosts for network interfaces in promiscuous mode. This time around, we’ll scan for some well known ports in our Active Directory to see who has a local IIS or SQL Express running on their machine. I know what you’re thinking. [...]

Adobe to release critical update on patch Tuesday

A new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.3 has been identified by Chia-Ching Fang and the Taiwanese Information and Communication Security Technology Service Center that allows an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code. The attack is seeded by providing via e-mail or download a specially crafted PDF file which in current examples will then drop a malware executable as well as an unaffected pdf file.

VRF is the new Black: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Complexity

Breaking up your network “is good,” we all know this, and VLANs have traditionally been used to segment a network to help with maintenance, management, and security; but, they are not the only game in town and often the wrong place to break your network into smaller and more efficient pieces. VPN Routing and [...]

Breaking Twitter (authentication)

Yesterday we spent some time speculating on how phishing attacks like the one afflicting Twitter on Wednesday of this week are seeded. How are the original direct messages sent out that kick off the first stolen credentials, the next set of direct messages, and so on in the loop? We were hoping, but [...]