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The next morning I got my first go at a real system for a real customer. One of the company's clients had recently had a successful hacking attempt on one of their systems, and they wanted us to review and fix it.
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Today was a disaster - I really messed it up.
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I just posted a new blog entry over at honeynor.no with at analysis of some of the SQL-injection attacks we've seen in Norway lately. Read the full post here: http://www.honeynor.no/2008/11/11/looking-at-some-sql-injection-attacks/[...]
This week I have received several samples of a very similar looking malware. It's basically a .zip-file containing a "document". The last version I got was from "Your UPS". The reason I'm writing document with quotes is that it first appears to be a .doc file, but it has an .exe extension at the end after a lot of white space:
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I attended SecVest in Bergen for the first time this year. It was an interesting experience.
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This year I was accepted as a speaker at Javazone here in Oslo. Markus Harboe from mnemonic and I had a presentation about the state of security in norwegian web applications, and what developers and project managers can do about it.
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I was trying to figure out how to use client certificates with IIS, but IIS kept complaining with a message of "HTTP 403.13 - Forbidden: Client certificate revoked", even though the certificate was not revoked.
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This year I attended Blackhat USA for the first time, and it was also my first trip to Las Vegas.
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The last couple of days I've been attending NDC2008(Norwegian Developer Conference) here in Oslo. Mats Torgersen's talk on LINQ under the covers was quite interesting.
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We tried to setup an ADAM in our test environment that is using user proxies against AD. While the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider works with normal ADAM user accounts, we could not, however, log in with any of our proxy accounts.
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About Erlend
I'm a senior consultant at Bekk Consulting AS. This blog is about software development, with a special focus on security.

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