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.
The Stack Overflow Survey is out and has some interesting insights
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019
Rebex has built a tool to scan SSH servers, similar to the Qualis SSL scan
https://sshcheck.com/
A new OWASP project that I'm participating in is aiming at inventorying and improving the overall security postures of package managers - take a look
https://github.com/OWASP/packman
And that's the news!
PortSwigger has replaced the exercises in the Web Application Security Hacker's Handbook with the new Web Academy.
https://portswigger.net/web-security
An ARM assembler - in JavaScript. I don't even have the words, this is so awesome.
https://azm.azerialabs.com/
Writing a talk? Here are 60 information security statistics with corresponding references.
https://itblogr.com/60-must-know-cybersecurity-statistics-for-2019/
Google has started their own vulnerability database. I'm not sure why, we already have several, but it is worth a look.
https://www.vulncode-db.com/
And that's the news!
No April Fools here.
Solid primer on using burp Collaborator for blind command injection. One of the real benefits of Burp over ZAP.
https://threat.tevora.com/stop-collaborate-and-listen/
Bruce weighs in on a study where freelance devs were checked for their secure coding. It didn't go well.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/03/programmers_who.html
A new tool for testing on Windows. Now, I don't use Windows for EVERYTHING but it is nice for a lot of things. I'll be checking this out.
https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/83065/hacking/commando-vm-windows.html
And that's the news!