A few days ago Microsoft released a Security Advisory (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2416728.mspx) about a vulnerability which affects all versions of ASP.NET. This vulnerability known as Padding Oracle exploits the way an ASP.NET application handles encrypted data. ASP.NET encrypts data to prevent an application from tampering with it. Because of this vulnerability, an attacker can send data to a site and analyze the error response which provides a lot of information enabling the attacker to break the ASP.NET’s…
As some of you might be aware, there was a hack attempt on ResellerClub’s website earlier today. At the onset of the attempt, we immediately undertook a flurry of investigative activities from our end to identify and mitigate the issue as soon as possible. We were able to successfully combat the hack attempt and had the website up and running quickly enough. As always we want to be absolutely transparent about everything that happens at…