Category Archives: Innovations Lab

Effective Malicious Hacking: Another Case for People, Process, Technology (But Not in the Way You Would Think)

My friend emailed me today and said that her company’s IT department was warning users about a phishing email that was circulating around supposedly from IKEA. (This by the way is an example of a great IT department: they don’t rely on just technology – people and process are also part of their security solution, kudos to them!) [...]

“That would require me to actually care about security …”: Inspiring Words From My Developer Friend

At Impacta, one of the core values we have is to always innovate.  Find new, better and more creative ways to solve today and tomorrow’s online risk (security, privacy, etc.) problems. In fact, our company motto is literally ”Innovations that Inpsire” to speak to that core value. I just had one of those unexpected moments today that [...]

Outlook 2007 IMAP Spam Bug Workaround

Update (11/05/08): This solution should work for very small user bases, and it’s what worked for me.  It might not work for you, and definitely won’t be practical if you have a large user base to manage.  If you have a large user base (some have reported 4200+) then I suggest that you contact your [...]

Not Your Typical SQL Injection Vulnerability

Hey everyone, Kevin here.  I took our assessment product prototype out for a spin the other day, and it detected a fairly interesting SQL injection vulnerabilty on an extremely popular Web site (Alexa top 100 in the United States at least).  The SQL injection vulnerabilty revealed itself in a HTTP 500 error response, similar to the following [...]