full-disclosure - Fun with Foundstone

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Date: Thu Feb 16 20:04:19 2006
From: unknown.pentester at gmail.com (pagvac)
Subject: Fun with Foundstone

On 2/14/06, Jason Coombs <jasonc@...ence.org> wrote:
> orangeofficer@...hmail.com wrote:
> > https://download.foundstone.com/?o=^2155
> > Now that's just plain sloppy.
>
> But at least it's SSL-secured.

SSL provides privacy *not* security (web server/application is still
vulnerable to attacks).

Also, this https encryption can be beneficial for attackers to avoid
IDS alarms if IDS is *not* located on the target server that provides
the https connection.

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