SX Impact – Developer Fixes Vulnerability in Facebook Application

September 13, 2011
Few days back, we have published research article on “Vulnerable Facebook Applications” by Abhinav Singh, one of our active contributor. In this article, he has exposed how vulnerable Facebook Applications are and how they can [...]

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Posted by Nagareshwar Talekar

Facebook Chief Security Officer to Keynote 2nd Annual HITB Security Conference in Europe

March 2, 2011
After the success of last year’s inaugural event, Hack In The Box Security Conference is taking over the Krasnapolsky once again from the 17th till the 20th of May. This deep knowledge security conference brings [...]

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Book of the Month – A Guide to Kernel Exploitation

December 28, 2010
Anyone into Vulnerability Research and Exploitation knows how hard it is to discover a Security Vulnerability and then develop a reliable exploit for it. Now consider taking it from user land to kernel, the near impossible thing to get your shoes in for the show. . In that context, ‘A Guide to Kernel Exploitation’ new [...]

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Book of the Month – Mobile Malware Attacks and Defense

October 19, 2010
As mobile devices becoming more and more sophisticated with their computing power and memory, the attackers are slowing shifting their focus from PC to these Mobile devices. Unlike earlier generation of mobile devices, current mobile devices are as powerful as our computer systems with increased memory and performance along with built-in internet connectivity. All of [...]

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Posted by Nagareshwar Talekar

Detecting ‘Slow Dll Hijacking’ Vulnerability using DllHijackAuditor

September 11, 2010
‘Dll Hijack’ vulnerability is one of the recently highlighted critical security issue affecting most of the popular Windows applications. Every day researchers are discovering more and more applications which are vulnerable to various forms of ‘Dll Hijacking’ and at the same time attackers have started exploiting these vulnerable applications. . In that event, we had [...]

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Released DllHijackAuditor v2 with New & Smart Interception Engine

September 7, 2010
DllHijackAuditor is the FREE tool to Audit against the  DLL Hijacking Vulnerability for any Windows application. This is recently discovered critical security vulnerability affecting most of Windows systems. Currently large number of applications are currently susceptible to this vulnerability which can allow any attacker to completely take over the system. . In the first version [...]

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Presenting DllHijackAuditor – Smart Tool to Audit Dll Hijack Vulnerability

August 30, 2010
DllHijackAuditor is the FREE tool to Audit against the  DLL Hijacking Vulnerability for any Windows application. This is recently discovered critical security issue affecting almost all Windows systems on the planet. It appears that large amount of Windows applications are currently susceptible to this vulnerability which can allow any attacker to completely take over the [...]

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Posted by Nagareshwar Talekar

Book of the Month – Cyber Fraud: Tactics, Techniques and Procedures

August 27, 2010
Gone are the days when those BlackHat Hackers would tickle you for fun, Now they will poke you & take your diamonds without you even knowing anything about it until it’s too late. Landscape in the Cyber underground has completely changed since then, making it more like well organized business controlled by global entities around [...]

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DLL Hijacking Exploit – All at One Place

August 24, 2010
The web is full of recent DLL Hijacking Exploit after HDMoore and other security researchers have reported about numerous Windows applications suffering  from these flaws.  Here I have decided to put together simple version with all the relevant links at one place so that one gets the complete picture. . What is DLL Hijacking Vulnerability [...]

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Hackers Exploit Launch Feature of PDF to Spread the Botnets

April 20, 2010
Next time you open that PDF email attachment or PDF document from your friend, it may be the last time you will be owning your system.  Next moment onwards it will no longer be yours because it will become  part of botnet system controlled by attackers out there. Attackers are busy exploiting new launch action feature [...]

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