javascript – Phocean.net / Computer Security Blog Fri, 24 Feb 2017 21:17:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.10 Microsoft’s Zozzle, Javascript malware detector /2011/02/01/microsofts-zozzle-javascript-malware-detector.html Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:07:54 +0000 http://www.phocean.net/?p=1006 http://www.phocean.net/?p=1006 In an effort to detect malicious Javascript code, Microsoft is developing a tool named Zozzle, aimed to be embedded into the Javascript engine of a browser.
The authors claim that it is both fast and efficient with a very low rate of false positive.

Here is the report for more details.

]]> Ravan, password cracking using Javascript! /2010/12/18/ravan-password-cracking-using-javascript.html Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:53:22 +0000 http://www.phocean.net/?p=940 http://www.phocean.net/?p=940 Continue Reading]]> Ravan is a new password cracking tool based on Javascript.

Wait, what ? Javascript ? Yes, as the author explains, modern Javascript engines are not so slow anymore, and in addition HTML 5 brings a new “feature” with webworkers which allow the browser to run Javascript in the background (e.g without waiting on the page executing the script).

Combine it with several computers connecting to the same page executing a password cracking script and you get easily quite a powerful distributed password cracker.

Visit this page for more details.

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