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CRLF Injection

CRLF Injection Overview CRLF Injection is typically used in HTTP Response Splitting. In the HTTP specification there is a spec stating that the HTTP header is to be split from

Malaysia Government DBKL Web Vulnerability (2nd)

PlanetCreator has reported Critical XSS vulnerability on Official Portal of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Web Site, http://www.planetcreator.net/2009/09/criti…aysia-web-site/ and http://www.xssed.com/mirror/64058/ but nobody takes action ~~~ How come? Hello, DBKL’s Staffs! Are you

What are the various features of snort?

Snort has the following features: * It detects threats, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes and NetBIOS queries, NMAP and other port scanners, well-known backdoors