SecurityFocus

Detecting Anonymizing Proxies
Matasano - By: Wes Brown, 2008-10-10
Anonymizing proxies are often used by people who wish privacy, or to circumvent access controls. But there are also dark sides to anonymizing proxies, such as using them to harass or stalk other people.

Owning Networks With Soldering Irons and Radio Shack Parts
Matasano - By: stephen, 2008-10-10
Hardware never gets solid testing because of obstacles that may actually be easy to overcome. If you can successfully hop the hardware hurdle, you can find all that never-before-seen attack surface.

I broke Opera
Matasano - By: Chris, 2008-10-08
I like Opera but it has not received as much ‘security attention’ as Firefox or Internet Explorer.

VoIP Demystified: SIP
Matasano - By: Wes Brown, 2008-10-03
First in a series of posts covering VoIP.

The Wild World of VoIP
Matasano - By: Wes Brown, 2008-09-30
A deaf security consultant has some insights on working with voice-over-IP systems.

Regarding The Post On Chargen Earlier Today
Matasano - By: Thomas Ptacek, 2008-07-21
Earlier today, a security researcher posted their hypothesis regarding Dan Kaminsky’s DNS finding. Shortly afterwards, when the story began getting traction, a post appeared on our blog about that hypothesis. It was posted in error.

2008 Pwnie Awards: Last Chance For Nominations
Matasano - By: Dave G., 2008-07-15
Just as a reminder, today is the last day that you can nominate yourself your peers for a pwnie award.

Dan Was Right. I Was Wrong.
Matasano - By: Thomas Ptacek, 2008-07-09
Thanks to Rich Mogull, Dino and I just got off the phone with Dan Kaminsky. We know what he’s going to say at Black Hat.

Dan Kaminsky could have made hundreds of thousands of dollars with this DNS flaw!
Matasano - By: Thomas Ptacek, 2008-07-09
There are some vulnerabilities money can’t buy. For everything else: there’s the DNS.

Internationalization of Malware
Matasano - By: Wes Brown, 2008-07-01
In a former life, I was a malware analyst. Eventually after a while of doing this, I have some observations on where malware is going, and I’m going to share some of them in this post.