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2Dec/110

dns-brute.nse

Posted by cirrus

I've always wondered why Nmap didn't have a DNS brute-forcing script. Some months ago I decided to have a look at the scripting engine, and make one.

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24Feb/110

Apple Ping Privacy Concerns

Posted by cirrus

After the launch of the new iTunes and the brand new music social network, I decided while trying it, to check out the privacy settings, and what kind of HTTP requests are send.

22Dec/100

SSH honeypot

Posted by cirrus

I've been running an SSH honeypot for around a month now.
So let's have a look at the stats.

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27Sep/100

HackAri – HackBar for Safari

Posted by cirrus

I've been using the excellent HackBar add-on for Firefox for some time now.

7Sep/102

How hard can it be to disclose an XSS

Posted by cirrus

Some time ago, I discovered an XSS in LinkedIn, and thought what the heck, let's report it.
I reported the XSS using the customer service center (couldn't find a security contact anywhere) on 25/Dec/2009.

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22Jun/102

Remove http referrer bookmarklet and Safari5 extension

Posted by cirrus

Let's go through the creation of a bookmarklet that removes the http referrers from all links in a page. This has been tested in Safari and Firefox.

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8Jun/107

Bypassing Safari 5 XSS Auditor

Posted by cirrus

Safari 5 was released today and following IE8's move they decided to implement what they call XSS Auditor.

2Jun/102

DirBuster Dictionary Populator

Posted by cirrus

Dirbuster and dirb are in the toolset of all web application security fans. Both tools are excellent (although I prefer dirb due to it being command line and not Java), but their results obviously depends on how good the wordlist you are using is.

13May/100

Parliament.gr blocks search engines?

Posted by cirrus

I sometimes surf while using the Googlebot user-agent and often forget to switch back to the default Firefox user-agent.

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26Apr/102

iPhone applications that transmit credentials using “unsafe” protocols

Posted by cirrus

The iPhone SDK allowed for the creation of thousands of applications. However, some of these applications (probably more than I would like to admit), have not been coded with security in mind.

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