VAS (or Quest Authentication Services) and AD

here's an explanation of how it works	12:51 PM
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/02/15/test2.aspx

Interesting list of hacks

http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/hacker-matrix/?utm_source=techalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=071411

Crazy days

http://www.metnews.com/articles/2010/howa121710.htm

Google Labs runs a web “hackme” application on Google Apps (infosec)

Google Labs runs a web “hackme” application on Google Apps that is free to use and provides a host of atypical web vulnerabilities to exploit.

https://google-gruyere.appspot.com/

From the website:

This codelab is built around Gruyere /ɡruːˈjɛər/ - a small, cheesy web application that allows its users to publish snippets of text and store assorted files. "Unfortunately," Gruyere has multiple security bugs ranging from cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery, to information disclosure, denial of service, and remote code execution. The goal of this codelab is to guide you through discovering some of these bugs and learning ways to fix them both in Gruyere and in general.

Good exercises for web developers, infosec geeks and the security curious. A little easier to use than having to set up VMWare, java, etc for other hackmes.

What an awesome site! http://www.iexploit.org

http://www.iexploit.org

setting cookies & doing redirects in clunky frameworks

Sometimes when doing operation and maintenance coding you find yourself working a framework where the original developers left some functionality out and adding the "right way" is just not worth the effort.  In these types of scenarios it is good to know about "http-equiv" meta tags.

• Setting cookies & redirection

sub upd_server_type_filter {
        my $server_type_filter = $cgi->param('server_type_filter_text_area');

        # a clunky solution for a clunky framework
        print "<meta http-equiv=\"Set-Cookie\" content=\"server_type_filter=$server_type_filter; path=/; expires=\"\"\">\n";
        print "<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0\">\n";
}

• Getting the  cookie

sub get_server_type_filter {
        my @filter;

        # fetch cookies
        my %cookies             = CGI::Cookie->fetch;
        my $server_type_filter  = $cookies{'server_type_filter'}->value if $cookies{'server_type_filter'};
        $server_type_filter =~ s/\s//g;
        @filter = split /,/, $server_type_filter;
        return @filter;
}

MS11-050 exploit

http://d0cs4vage.blogspot.com/2011/06/insecticides-dont-kill-bugs-patch.html