Firefox Web Application Security Testing plugins
A collection of Firefox add-on tools used for Web Application Security testing, auditing, and hacking. Firefox really giving very good plugins. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/webappsec
WordPress 2.8 visual editor bug
I am not sure is this a bug or wordpress helping promote google new browser Chrome.As some people saying that they are able to use visual editor in Chrome Upgrading to WordPress 2.8 (from 2.7+) I have lost the visual editor. No visual icons are showing and it is impossible to write in the edit box. For me even after using any browser visual editor for WordPress 2008 don’t work Some people suggested re-installation of wordpress 2.8 Still not sure what will solve this problem.Searching for fix.
Categories: Concept, wordpress Tags: wordpress 2.8 visual editor not working, wordpress setup
Categories: Internet Security Tags: owasp, OWASP Membership Certificate
WordPress 2.8 Released
WordPress 2.8 “Baker” has been released. It contains fixes bugs as well as improvements to themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speed. Highlights: Improved widgets admin interface and new widgets API. Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors. Theme installation from the admin. Easy dashboard widgets arrangement. Allow item configuration with an option in Screen Options. Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment. Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation. WordPress 2.8 is available for download here.
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OWASP MEMBERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT
A tremendous amount of effort and care has built OWASP Foundation since 2001 and as we start 2009 the spotlight to lead the Application security charge. Worldwide people and peer organizations are utilizing OWASP guides, tools and attending local chapters events and conferences to hear about OWASP projects and connecting with peers. Collectively we are a respected and professional association with a unified voice of peers with a wisdom of crowds. In 2009+ your continued volunteerism efforts and the external support of individual membership/supporters enable OWASP Foundation Inc., to continue the mission in raising visibility of application security. As a [...]
Categories: Concept, Internet Security, Review Tags: owasp, OWASP MEMBERSHIP
Security Testing
Security testing is the primary job of ethical hackers. These tests might be configured in such way that the ethical hackers have no knowledge, full knowledge, or partial knowledge of the target of evaluation (TOE). No Knowledge Tests (Blackbox) No knowledge testing is also known as blackbox testing. Simply stated, the security team has no knowledge of the target network or its systems. Blackbox testing simulates an outsider attack as outsiders usually don’t know anything about the network or systems they are probing. The attacker must gather all types of information about the target to begin to profile its strengths [...]
OWASP – CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS
First OWASP AppSec Academia Symposium at University of California, Irvine Wednesday 08-26-2009. This will be a half day free event for anyone interested, if you have a research paper or would like to join owasp for this event you can submit your paper by following the instructions on the site or you can register at https://www.owasp.org/index.php/AppSec_Academia_Symposium Call for Presentations / Research Papers
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Top 10 Malware sites
Google online security blog declared top 10 malware sites Google constantly scan index for potentially dangerous sites. there automated systems found more than 4,000 different sites that appeared to be set up for distributing malware by massively compromising popular web sites. Of these domains more than 1,400 were hosted in the .cn TLD. Several contained plays on the name of Google such as goooogleadsence.biz, etc. The graph shows the top-10 malware sites as counted by the number of compromised web . Via: Google Online Security
Categories: Concept, Internet Security, Review Tags: malware, potentially dangerous sites, vulnerable websites
WordPress setup
While making TechChase live I have gone through various phase.I will share some DO’s and DON’T regarding that.First thing i did is to setup wordpress locally. As I want lot of changes to be done in blog I want to setup wordpress locally. WordPress Local Setup: 1.First and most required to setup wordpress locally is server.I used XamppLite sever very simple and quick installation.You can downlod it here. 2.Extract Xampplite to your C:\
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