Category Archives: Security

Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors

Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 by Matti

I’m lacking time to update, so I’ll just pretend to have an active blog by posting an interesting link: Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors.

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BackTrack 4 Final Release

Posted on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 by Matti

Haven’t updated this blog in a while, so here’s a minor update; The BackTrack 4 Final Release is out! If you’re not entirely sure what it is, read up on the website of this fabulous pentesting toolkit. I’ll be testing … Continue reading →

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NetBIOS exploiting

Posted on Sunday, December 27, 2009 by Matti

I’ve just read 2 very interesting articles on NetBIOS poisoning I feel like sharing. nbtool: netbios manipulation + “how netbios works” intro how to exploit netbios requests using nbtool & nbpoison Since those 2 links explain it all, I can … Continue reading →

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MetaData: I’ll Bet You Thought That Was Private?

Posted on Saturday, September 19, 2009 by Matti

Ever heard of MetaData? Wikipedia describes it best: Metadata (meta data, or sometimes metainformation) is “data about data”, of any sort in any media. So I hear you thinking: who cares? Well, for starters: you should. MetaData contains a lot … Continue reading →

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Slowloris HTTP DoS: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

Posted on Sunday, June 21, 2009 by Matti

A new way of DoS attack has been released recently, called the Slowloris HTTP DoS, dubbed “the low bandwidth, yet greedy and poisonous HTTP client“. Slowloris holds connections open by sending partial HTTP requests. It continues to send subsequent headers … Continue reading →

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