A wonderful human being put together a list of resources about hacking mainframe systems, worth a look if your organization is run on the big metal.
https://github.com/samanL33T/Awesome-Mainframe-Hacking/
Apple had a not-good-very-bad week. First, the OpenIF Foundation dinged the Mac implementation of "Sign in with Apple"
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/07/08/privacy-and-security-risks-as-sign-in-with-apple-tweaks-open-id-protocol/
Then it was discovered that all of the magic of Zoom's conference software is due to a web server installed on MacOS, which you can't remove! (Heeeey!)
https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/09/zoom-will-remove-server-behind-mac-security-hole/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000618
Rhino Security released a new version of CloudGoat, an insecure-by-design cloud deployment tool.
https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/aws/cloudgoat-walkthrough-rce_web_app/
One of my favorite attacks against file uploads that take zip files is the zipbomb. Well, someone made a really nice one.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/597vzx/the-most-clever-zip-bomb-ever-made-explodes-a-46mb-file-to-45-petabytes
There is a flaw in the Android update system that allows attackers to modify updates on the fly. Oh, and it is being exploited in the wild.
https://thehackernews.com/2017/12/android-malware-signature.html?m=1
That's the news, folks. Have a safe week!
Good article on using fuzzers as productivity tools
https://kripken.github.io/blog/binaryen/2019/06/11/fuzz-reduce-productivity.html
Reminds me of a great talk by the remarkable Craig Stuntz, worth a read.
https://speakerdeck.com/craigstuntz/high-speed-bug-discovery-with-fuzzing
Firefox will automatically trust certificates trusted by your OS
https://thehackernews.com/2019/07/firefox-https-security.html?m=1
In other Firefox news, the UK is up in arms about Secure DNS breaking the Great British Pornwall
https://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-isp-group-names-mozilla-internet-villain-for-supporting-dns-over-https/
Next time I ping your site for not using X-FRAME-OPTIONS on a DNS endpoint, well, HAH I TOLD YOU SO NAAA NAA NAA
https://medium.com/intigriti/gotcha-taking-phishing-to-a-whole-new-level-72eda9e30bef
And that's the news, folks.
Fascinating look into Internet routing that caused an outage last week. We are really building this city on a bed of sticks.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimizer-knocked-large-parts-of-the-internet-offline-today/
Not my normal fare for this newsletter, but Microsoft added a secure vault to OneDrive. Not in the US yes, but my Australian friends can give it a try.
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-announces-onedrive-personal-vault-secure-area-within-your-onedrive
There is a directory traversal vulnerability in ... this blog! Please don't hack my. I'll update later today.
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/44
MongoDB is adding field level encryption. Now if folks would just use the authentication features ...
https://www.wired.com/story/field-level-encryption-databases-mongobd/
Found a VERY cool tool that lists known vulnerabilities in default containers.
https://vulnerablecontainers.org/
A weird enge case forces the npm deployment script to push the .git folder. Remember, complexity is the enemy of security.
https://npm.community/t/npm-6-9-1-is-broken-due-to-git-folder-in-published-tarball/8454/2
And that's the news folks.
Google has decided that the API that underpins the Chrome extension kit is too powerful - and they aren't wrong. But the changes appear to be killing adblockers. Strange, that.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/17/chrome_extensions_security/
No, you aren't reading an old edition of this newsletter. There really is another Orable Weblogic deserialization bug.
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/alert-cve-2019-2729-5570780.html
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/19/oracle_weblogic_emergency/
Good writeup on the current state of 2 factor authorization.
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/06/20/getting-2fa-right-in-2019/
That's the news, folks.
Accidentally Took Memorial Day Weekend Off Edition
New tool: FinalRecon- OSINT Tool For All-In-One Web Reconnaissance
https://blog.hackersonlineclub.com/2019/05/finalrecon-osint-tool-for-all-in-one.html?m=1
Permanent URL Hijack Through 301 HTTP Redirect Cache Poisoning
https://blog.duszynski.eu/domain-hijack-through-http-301-cache-poisoning/
Didier Stevens, one of my favorite researchers, mentioned that one of his readers has made a docker container with all of his tools.
https://blog.didierstevens.com/2019/05/27/dssuite-a-docker-container-with-my-tools/
There is a POC for CVE-2019-0708. Certainly is worth a look.
https://github.com/Ekultek/BlueKeep
Speaking of Docker, there is a bug that allows a hypervisor jump.
https://duo.com/decipher/docker-bug-allows-root-access-to-host-file-system
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/05/31/unpatched-docker-bug-allows-read-write-access-to-host-os/
Finally, the always-wonderful folks at Portswigger have a cool analysis of Behavioral Fuzzing.
https://portswigger.net/blog/provoking-browser-quirks-with-behavioural-fuzzing
And that's the news! Have a great week.
Container security is a big deal, with OWASP A9 showing up more and more. Here is a tool that will help with container scanning, and it is compatible with your continuous integration builds.
https://github.com/knqyf263/trivy
WhatsApp had a bug, but that doesn't dismiss the importance of end-to-end encryption. Discuss.
https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-hack-phone-call-voip-buffer-overflow/
Someone found a user after free vulnerability in the Linux kernal going alllll the way back.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/linux-kernel-prior-to-508-vulnerable-to-remote-code-execution/
And that's the news!
If you have been in my classes, you know that I often point to weev as my example for why not to hack live sites. Well, now I have a new example.
https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/israel-hamas-hacker-airstrikes.html
DHS is putting a 15 day deadline on all critical patches. Maybe that Windows NT4SP2 box will get a little sumpn sumpn, huh?
https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/dhs-patch-vulnerabilities.html
The Google CTF is coming up in a month or so. Start doing those ZAP pushups.
https://security.googleblog.com/2019/05/google-ctf-2019-is-here.html
El Reg has a great article on the latest (of many) SQLite RCE flaws.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/10/sqlite_rce_vuln/
Y'all know that cryptography is not my best subject, but this is important. SHA1 is now provably just as broken as MD5, so start scrubbing it from codebases, except in cases like HMAC.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/459
That's the news!
Another Weblogic deserialization bug.
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/84450/breaking-news/oracle-weblogic-zeroday.html
I have a PR in for Nikto for it
https://github.com/sullo/nikto/pull/607
A reminder that application security is more than SQL Injection: good analysis of the bugs that caused the 737 Max wrecks. I had to drop it in Pastebin because IEEE put it behind the paywall.
https://pastebin.com/QEiKvvMM
Using Git dotfiles to bypass authentication.
https://blog.assetnote.io/bug-bounty/2019/04/23/getting-access-zendesk-gcp/
ZDNet, of all places, has a really good, plain language explainer of credential stuffing.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/an-inside-look-at-how-credential-stuffing-operations-work/
Little more on the dev side - 10 articles reviewed about using Python in machine learning.
https://hackernoon.com/10-great-articles-on-python-development-6f54dd38437f
And that 's the news! I'll be on vacation next week, so see you on the 12th.