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A short while ago, I decided to prepare a presentation on web vulnerabilities and specifically on XSS attacks. This involved studying the way today’s filtration systems work. I selected the most popular Russian social networking website, VKontakte.ru, as a test bed. One thing that grabbed my attention was the updated user status system. The HTML code in the part of the page where users edit their status messages is shown below: As you can see, filtering is performed by the infoCheck() function. The status itself is located in this string: What we have here is two-step filtration. The first step is performed when the user enters the status message. The second step involves converting the status message to text and returning it to the page in the shape in which other users will see it. While the second step definitely works well and it would clearly be impossible to convert to active XSS, things are not as simple where the first step is concerned, so it is that step that we will look ...

'EC-Council Academy'  server compromised ! EC-Council Academy , Here a image show above that  http://www.eccouncilacademy.org  got rooted by a hacker. The image clear expose the shell on the server and via putty the hacker is login as root on their server :P Update : I wanna clarify that ' EC-Council  Academy' is not a part of 'EC-Council Organisation' , Actually in above image we have just shown that Academy's  web hosting server had been compromised, it  was not actually defaced by hacker. " I wish to clarify to our partners, clients and friends that the EC-Council Academy Sdn. Bhd. is neither a subsidiary, associate nor a sister concern of the International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants (EC-Council). EC-Council Academy is purely one of the 450 training locations EC-Council has in over 80 countries. However, it is officially sanctioned to use the EC-Council name as it is a licensee of EC-Council's trai...

#Anonymous : An Open Letter To Broadcast Music, Inc. Anonymous Hackers just Release a new open letter for Broadcast Music , as shown Below : To: Broadcast Music, Incorporated Greetings from Anonymous, As you have no doubt gathered from various media outlets and our own information disseminated across the internet, we are an internet activist group independent of any and all national, political, or religious affiliations. Despite our differences, we are united in the preservation of intellectual freedom and fair copyright laws. Too long have the music and cinema industries, among others, abused copyright for their own gain. Legislation serves to protect artists not the companies managing them and should never attempt to prevent the spread of creativity to the general public. We have seen BMI consistently copyright legislation and consequently have decided to take action against it to show that the people will not stand for its crimes against the public. As of the time of the writ...

Summary The Facebook Translations tool’s search feature was vulnerable to a simple reflected XSS attack. How did it work? The  Translations tool  allows users to perform phrase searches within translations. In this case, when a search query returned 0 results, the script displayed a message (“Your search for “YOUR PHRASE HERE” did not match any results.”) which contained unsanitized user input (the search query). Why is this important? The XSS vulnerability was on Facebook.com. An attacker could have used it to access or change information on people’s accounts. Despite Facebook’s claims that they’ve  eliminated   XSS vulnerabilities , it’s clear that some portions of the site are better protected than others (ie: Translations was probably not using XHP). Lesser used portions of the site, like the Translations tool, are often the most vulnerable since they’re not updated as often or tested as frequently. More Information I want to thank Facebook for responding to ...

ClubHack : CHMag Issue 14th, March 2011 Download ! Description: 14th issue of ClubHACK magazine is out. Contents of this issue: Tech Gyan - Remote Thread Execution in System Process Tool Gyan - JS Recon: Java Script Network Reconnaissance Tool Mom's Guide - Choosing Right Secure Mobile Legal Gyan - Law Related Unauthorized Access Command Line Gyan - Backup & Bulk Copy Maruix Vibhag - Introduction Part 1 PDF download link: http://chmag.in/issue/mar2011.pdf News Source :  Abhijeet Patil URL: http://chmag.in

Tuesday, Google announced a few changes to Chrome, its engineered-for-speed web browser. The super-fast beta version that was announced a few weeks ago has already been updated to a stable version. For the Googlers working on Chrome, speed entails not only faster code (the latest version of Chrome boasts a 66% improvement in JavaScript performance) but also easier-to-navigate interfaces. With that in mind, the company is rolling out a new Settings interface for all Chrome users. One major change is that Settings are now presented in a Chrome tab rather than a dialog box — a change that will seem familiar to those using Google’s Cr-48 notebooks, which run Chrome OS and present absolutely everything in a browser tab. Settings are also searchable, which many users will likely find extremely helpful. Here’s a brief demo video showing Chrome’s new Settings pages in action: Google has also extended its sandboxing features to Chrome’s Flash player. Interested parties can download...