Yesterday, Cloudflare posted an incident report on their blog about an issue discovered in their HTML parser. A very nice report which is worth a read! As usual, in our cyber world, this vulnerability quickly received a nice name and logo: “Cloudbleed“. I’ll not explain in details the vulnerability here,
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Restricting Access to Flash Files with Squid
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
Manage an Efficient List of Open Proxies
Open proxies… Everybody likes them! Please don’t immediately think about malicious activities… Of course, open (and chained) proxies can be useful to make you anonymous on the Internet but they can also by very interesting for “good” purposes. As a pentester, they can help you to distribute your reconnaissance phase
URL Filtering with Squid
Next to my digital life, I’m also the happy father of two young girls. The first one is already ten years old and smoothly discovers the “Wonderful Internet“. Being an Infosec guy, it sounds logical for me to implement some safeguards. First, let the technical stuff aside and talk! Some
Increase your Surf Privacy with IPFuck
The debate is ongoing for a while and has partisans on both sides: Can an IP address be considered as private data? Europe said yes and the “fight” between privacy protectors and authorities is still present. Having your IP address considered as private from a legal point of view or