Archive for the ‘Security Tools’ Category

Where was the Hacker in the Room for X-FRAME-OPTIONs?

Saturday, November 13th, 2010 by webstersprodigy

Or maybe where was the Dev in the room? Imagine you’re sitting at a computer logged into your favorite website, lolcats, and you click on a shady link while logged in. There are a lot of attack scenarios that start this way. Browsers have a cross domain policy that prevent the shady site from accessing any of [...]

Toorcon 2010 Talk

Saturday, October 30th, 2010 by webstersprodigy

My over caffeinated self somehow managed to stumble through the talk at toorcon. I’m self critical over the whole thing, but still overall a great experience, and I’m glad I did it. I was totally nervous. This was my first ‘con’ and the room was packed (people standing at the wall), I spotted relatively famous [...]

proxychains – handy tool!

Sunday, December 6th, 2009 by webstersprodigy

proxychains is a pretty amazing tool available at http://proxychains.sourceforge.net/. It is a versitile proxy tool. So folks like me, who would like the source IPs to be from a proxy, or multiple proxys. For me, the main uses are proxying gui port scan stuff like nessus and proxying tor.ychains.sourceforge.net/. It is a versitile proxy tool. So folks like me, who would like the source IPs to be from a proxy, or multiple proxys. For me, the main uses are proxying gui port scan stuff like nessus and proxying tor.

gcc security tips

Monday, November 10th, 2008 by webstersprodigy

Here are some flags that may help vulnerable code from being executed. -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 This should get rid of some buffer overflows that can be analyzed statically and some obvious ones (strcpying input, format string vulnerabilities). More information can be found here: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-09/msg02055.html -fstack-protector-all From the man page: Emit extra code to check for buffer overflows, [...]


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