Using Deviare to Create a Temporary Zero Day Patch

Zero day vulnerabilities put organizations at the mercy of vendors. These vulnerabilities are like a ticking bomb: you do not know when someone will exploit them. Writing your own patch for closed source applications is, in most cases, a complex mission that can take even longer than the vendor solution. When you use legacy software […]

SQL Server Interception and SQL Injection Attack Prevention

Note: we updated the code on August 23, 2013. The new code includes an “abort” feature, discussed in the article Instrumenting Microsoft SQL Server to Abort Dangerous Queries. Our Deviare hooking engine can be used to hook into Microsoft SQL Server 2012 RTM (11.00.2100.60) and 2014 CTP1 queries at the application level. Tools like WireShark use a […]

GoogleToolbar PageRank requests

Using our API hooker SpyStudio I wrote a script to intercept http requests done using wininet.dll API coming from a specific module of a process. The script keeps request information (server and url) to display in next calls and let filter requests to a specific server. Its name is httpReport.py and can found in SpyStudio […]