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Using a Web Server to steal NTLM credentials

I am trying to design an attack vector against an organization in which the pen tester (myself), steals NTLM credentials through HTTP. I am thinking of these scenarios: 1- I set up a web server on my ...
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IE on Windows 2012 doesn't show certificate or lock icon despite using HTTPS

Can anyone explain why IE on Windows 2012 doesn't show the lock icon despite using HTTPS when visiting the following site? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx I am able to see the lock ...
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Need help on understanding obfuscated code in CVE-2012-4969 exploit

As you may know this vulnerability was found a while ago in the wild and the exploit is available too, btw I'm having problem on understanding the obfuscated code. Is it necessary to use obfuscation ...
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How did my homepage get changed in IE?

I have rarely used IE in the past. I just use it to test how a website looks. Today all of a sudden when I went on to open IE, it opened with a homepage that wasn't set by me. It was an address of a ...
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Web browsing on Windows 2008 R2 terminal server (RDS)

I'm setting up a Windows 2008 R2 terminal server which users will connect to from thin clients. Since the thin clients don't have a web browser I need to allow users to surf from their terminal ...
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Is using a “Red” and a “Green” browser to balance LOB requirements and security a good approach?

I currently work in a manufacturing company with round about 5000 computers and 6000 employees. We use a lot of web based line of business applications (all internal, non over the Internet) in order ...
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What was Microsoft trying to do when they had Windows Updates over their website? [closed]

What was Microsoft trying to do when they had Windows Updates over their website? Now it's completely integrated into the operating system and it seems much smoother. The Linux and Mac I've used got ...
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Is the javascript browser tool at printfriendly.com secure for my browser

I use Win Xp Home with SP3 and am pretty aware of security problems. I use Palemoon 12.1, a version of Firefox optimized for windows. I usually use printfriendly bookmarklet to create printable pages ...
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Unknown malware, how to report it and whom to report it to?

I'm a professional Windows system administrator, but I've been caught off-guard (or maybe some malware writer has been very clever) and I caught some unknown malware on my home computer (Windows 7 x64 ...
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Firefox Desktop Shortcut Being Renamed

On my Vista PC the Firefox shortcut icon is being randomly renamed. The name changes to some variation of a recently visited URL. This unwanted action has survived several version updates. Of course I ...
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Strategy against browser exploits on Windows?

On a friend's computer is some kind of spam bot installed. It sends messages like Hello: I received my apple iPad 32GB ordered on an online shop (www.elevalley.com ) today. So exciting ...