TOP 10 HACKING TECHNIQUES OF 2009

1. Creating a rogue CA certificate
Alexander Sotirov, Marc Stevens, Jacob Appelbaum, Arjen Lenstra, David Molnar, Dag Arne Osvik, Benne de Weger

2. HTTP Parameter Pollution (HPP)
Luca Carettoni, Stefano diPaola

3. Flickr's API Signature Forgery Vulnerability (MD5 extension attack)
Thai Duong and Juliano Rizzo

4. Cross-domain search timing
Chris Evans

5. Slowloris HTTP DoS
Robert Hansen, (additional credit for earlier discovery to Adrian Ilarion Ciobanu & Ivan Ristic - “Programming Model Attacks” section of Apache Security for describing the attack, but did not produce a tool)

6. Microsoft IIS 0-Day Vulnerability Parsing Files (semi-colon bug)
Soroush Dalili

7. Exploiting unexploitable XSS
Stephen Sclafani

8. Our Favorite XSS Filters and how to Attack them
Eduardo Vela (sirdarckcat), David Lindsay (thornmaker)

9. RFC1918 Caching Security Issues
    Robert Hansen

10. DNS Rebinding (3-part series Persistent Cookies, Scraping & Spamming, and Session Fixation)
Robert Hansen