ScallyWhack: ModSecurity Rules Package to Deal with Trac Comment Spam

June 29, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

Michael Renzmann wrote to the ModSecurity mailing list recently announcing ...

Another ModSecurity Development Release

June 28, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

Last week I released the second ModSecurity development release, 2.5.0-dev2, in ...

Apache Process Infection

June 27, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

A very interesting research paper titled "Apache Prefork MPM Vulnerabilities" ...

Optimizing Regular Expressions

June 27, 2007

As many of you have noticed, the Core Rule Set contains very complex regular ...

Managing ModSecurity Alerts: More Console Tuning

June 22, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

In a previous Blog entry, I outlined a number of steps that you could take to ...

Extended Validation Certificates: A Change for the Better (But Not Enough)

June 15, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

On June 12th, 2007, the CA/Browser Forum (a group that consists of leading ...

Universal PDF XSS Revisited

June 13, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

The Universal PDF XSS vulnerability was a tipping point for most people ...

ModSecurity Rule for Full-width/Half-width Unicode Evasion Detection

May 23, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

You have probably heard it by now, but US-CERT released a Vulnerability Note ...

ModSecurity 2.2.0 Development Releases

May 15, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

Hello all. As this is my first official blog entry, let me first start off with ...

ModSecurity Console Performance Tuning

May 10, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

Help, my ModSecurity Community Console is not responding!" Perhaps you have ...

ModSecurity Migration Matrix

April 11, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

For all of you who are using ModSecurity 1.x and looking for information on ...

Webinar Featuring WHID on the Top Trends in Web Application Threats

April 03, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

On April 11th I'm going to present a webinar on web application security, with ...

Regular Expression Development Tools

March 30, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

Since ModSecurity is based on regular expressions. Writing rules requires ...

2.1/1.x Rule Differences For Identifying Missing/Empty Headers and Variables

March 22, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

There are certain scenarios where you might want to create white-listed ...

ModSecurity Console: Purpose and Deployment

March 17, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

If you have more then 1 ModSecurity installation, you have undoubtedly run into ...

ModSecurity ASCIIZ Evasion

March 08, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

It has been brought to our attention that a fault in the ModSecurity parsing ...

ModSecurity Status Report

February 23, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

I enjoyed talked about ModSecurity (and web application firewalls) in front of ...

Handling False Positives and Creating Custom Rules

February 17, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

It is inevitable; you will run into some False Positive hits when using web ...

Dealing with Impedance Mismatch

February 07, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

In my previous post I described a potential problem with web application ...

Testing Core Rules Protection For An Example SQL Injection Vulnerability

February 07, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

SANS released their 6th edition of the @RISK Weekly News Letter. In it, there ...

HTTPrint vs. ModSecurity

February 06, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

There was a great email posted to the ModSecurity user mail-list today that ...

PHP Peculiarities for ModSecurity Users

February 06, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

As I was reviewing the ModSecurity 2.1.0-rc7 Reference Manual I realised it did ...

ModSecurity 2.1.0 Improvements

February 05, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

I have just packaged and released ModSecurity for Apache v2.1.0-rc7, in ...

SANS @Risk Web Vulnerabilities List Mitigation Steps

January 30, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

This is a listing of Web Application Vulnerabilities that were released by SANS ...

Top 10 Web Hacks of 2006

January 23, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

Jeremiah Grossman gives an excellent overview of the top Web hacks of 2006. If ...

Key Advantages of the Core Rule Set

January 03, 2007 | SpiderLabs Anterior

Following a question on the core rule set on the ModSecuirty mailing list, I ...

Using ModSecurity 2 Collections in Rules

December 28, 2006 | Trustwave SpiderLabs

A recent posting on the ModSecurity mailing list by K.C. Li is a very good ...

ModSecurity v2.0 Webcast

December 07, 2006 | Trustwave SpiderLabs

In response to many of the common questions and issues posted to the mail-list, ...