Archive for December, 2008
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
I just wanted to announce that next wednesday (7th of January 2009) at 19:30 there will be the third CGNSec meetup in Cologne/Germany.
The meeting takes place at Hallmackenreuther, Brüsseler Platz 9, 50674 Köln (Google Maps)
Everyone working in the field of information security is invited to attend. To find us, just ...
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Two days ago I presented my session about bytecode encrypted PHP applications and how to find vulnerabilities in them at 25C3. I didn't upload the slides until now, because I got ill during the night after my talk and therefore spent most of yesterday in my hotelroom. But here are ...
Posted in PHP, Security | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
For half a year now I was working on a secret project called "PHP Upgrade Simulator" or short ext/usim which is a PHP extension that allows people to evaluate how robust their PHP code base is when it comes to upgrading to future PHP versions. I am happy to announce ...
Posted in PHP, Projects | 24 Comments »
Sunday, December 7th, 2008
Two days ago I blogged about the release of PHP 5.2.7 and how it fixes several security bugs. Because some are mentioned and some are not mentioned in the Changelog, it is usally advised to upgrade to new PHP versions instead of using distribution packages with security backports. The problem ...
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Saturday, December 6th, 2008
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
165 days ago I was sitting at a customer's place and were auditing a large scale web application. The audit was mainly a blackbox penetration test to check if an attacker could attack the application with zero knowledge. However when we found something interesting we were also able to look ...
Posted in PHP, Security | 12 Comments »