I published the following diary on isc.sans.org: “Detecting Undisclosed Vulnerabilities with Security Tools & Features“. I’m a big fan of OSSEC. This tools is an open source HIDS and log management tool. Although often considered as the “SIEM of the poor”, it integrates a lot of interesting features and is fully configurable
An 0-day vulnerability has been posted on Full-Disclosure this morning. It affects the MongoDB GUI phpMoAdmin. The GUI is similar to the well-known phpMyAdmin and allows the DB administrator to perform maintenance tasks on the MongoDB databases with the help of a nice web interface. The vulnerability is critical because it allows
Is “swf” the new “wtf“? What’s happening with the Flash player? The Adobe’s multimedia platform has been targeted by multiple 0-days since the beginning of 2015! Just have a look on cvedetails.com. Two days ago, security researchers at TrendMicro found another one. It is identified as CVE-2015-0313. Bored by the multiple
Yesterday, I posted an article about a Nmap script to detect potentially vulnerable Microsoft IIS FTP servers. I updated the script which now allows an alternative FTP user and password pair to be passed via the command line (thanks to Chris for the comment). If no arguments are provided, an
A new 0-day exploit for the FTP server included within the Microsoft IIS suite has been released today. Check the post on the Full Disclosure mailing list for more details. Based on an existing Nmap script, I quickly wrote a new one which performs the following actions: Check if anonymous
