CVE-2019-11749

A vulnerability exists in WebRTC where malicious web content can use probing techniques on the getUserMedia API using constraints to reveal device properties of cameras on the system without triggering a user prompt or notification. This allows for the potential fingerprinting of users. This...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-11749

A vulnerability exists in WebRTC where malicious web content can use probing techniques on the getUserMedia API using constraints to reveal device properties of cameras on the system without triggering a user prompt or notification. This allows for the potential fingerprinting of users. This...

Google Launches Open-Source Browser Extension for Ad Transparency

Google is launching an experimental, open-source browser extension aimed at increasing transparency around online advertising by displaying information about the ads that are shown to users. The browser extension is an integral part of a new Google initiative announced Thursday to develop a set o...

Fingerprints of 1M Exposed in Public Biometrics Database

Researchers discovered the personal and biometrics data of more than a million people left publicly exposed on a database owned by Suprema, a biometric security company. Data includes facial recognition and fingerprint information collected by the UK metropolitan police, small local businesses an...

UPDATE: FOCA v3.4.6.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed My last post about this Fingerprinting & Organisation with Collected Archives was almost two year ago. I also mentioned that this tool was open sourced. Now, FOCA v3.4.6.0 has been released! I missed a lot of the older updates to this tool. What is FOCA? FOCA stands for...

Black Hat 2019: 5G Security Flaw Allows MiTM, Targeted Attacks

LAS VEGAS — 5G commercial networks are starting to roll out, promising exciting new use cases like automated cars, and smart sensor networks where the nodes have 10-year battery lives. To go along with these possibilities are new security requirements; notably, improvements in device...

Brand-New SystemBC Proxy Malware Spotted Using SOCKS5 for Stealth

A previously undocumented proxy malware, dubbed “SystemBC,” is upping the stealth game by using SOCKS5 to evade detection. It’s being distributed by the Fallout and RIG exploit kits EKs, according to researchers. Proofpoint researchers said on Thursday that in the most recently tracked example, t...

SQLMap v1.3.7 - Automatic SQL Injection And Database Takeover Tool

SQLMap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It comes with a powerful detection engine, many niche features for the ultimate penetration tester and a broad range of switches lastin...

Mozilla and Google Browsers Get Security, Anti-Tracking Boosts

Browsers Firefox and Chrome received updates this week, both adding security and privacy tools that help with password management and help block sites that track users. Mozilla’s Firefox browser introduced an “Enhanced Tracking Protection” feature that blocks over 1,000 third-party companies that...

Firefox Web Browser Now Blocks Third-Party Tracking Cookies By Default

As promised, Mozilla has finally enabled "Enhanced Tracking Protection" feature on its Firefox browser by default, which from now onwards would automatically block all third-party tracking cookies that allow advertisers and websites to track you across the web. Tracking cookies, also known as...

Calibration Attack Drills Down on iPhone, Pixel Users

A proof-of-concept for a new type of privacy attack, dubbed “calibration fingerprinting,” uses data from Apple iPhone sensors to construct a globally unique fingerprint for any given mobile user. Researchers said that this provides an unusually effective means to track people as they browse acros...

Tor Browser for Android — First Official App Released On Play Store

Wohooo! Great news for privacy-focused users. Tor Browser, the most popular privacy-focused browser, for Android is finally out of beta, and the first stable version has now arrived on Google Play Store for anyone to download. The Tor Project announced Tuesday the first official stable release of...

Fingerprinting iPhones

This clever attack allows someone to uniquely identify a phone when you visit a website, based on data from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer sensors. We have developed a new type of fingerprinting attack, the calibration fingerprinting attack. Our attack uses data gathered from the...

Mozilla Tackles Two Critical Flaws with Firefox 67 Release

Mozilla patched several critical vulnerabilities with the release of its Firefox 67 browser on Tuesday. The worst of the bugs patched are two memory safety flaws that could allow attackers to exploit the vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system, according to a security bulletin issue...

Billions of Malicious Bots Attacks Take to Cipher-Stunting to Hide

When it comes to cyberattacks, adversaries are focusing not just on advanced malware development, but also on increasing the sophistication of their evasion techniques. This is playing out lately in the form of ballooning instances of “cipher stunting” – a TLS tampering technique that helps...

Google Chrome to Introduce Improved Cookie Controls Against Online Tracking

At the company's I/O 2019 developer conference, Google has announced its plan to introduce two new privacy and security-oriented features in the upcoming versions of its Chrome web browser. In an attempt to allow users to block online tracking, Google has announced two new features—Improved...

Google Chrome to Introduce Improved Cookie Controls Against Online Tracking

At the company's I/O 2019 developer conference, Google has announced its plan to introduce two new privacy and security-oriented features in the upcoming versions of its Chrome web browser. In an attempt to allow users to block online tracking, Google has announced two new features—Improved...

Joy - A Package For Capturing And Analyzing Network Flow Data And Intraflow Data, For Network Research, Forensics, And Security Monitoring

Joy is a BSD-licensed libpcap-based software package for extracting data features from live network traffic or packet capture pcap files, using a flow-oriented model similar to that of IPFIX or Netflow, and then representing these data features in JSON. It also contains analysis tools that can be...

CVE-2019-11641

Anomali Agave formerly Drupot through 1.0.0 fails to avoid fingerprinting by including predictable data and minimal variation in size within HTML templates, giving attackers the ability to detect and avoid this system...

CVE-2019-11641

Anomali Agave formerly Drupot through 1.0.0 fails to avoid fingerprinting by including predictable data and minimal variation in size within HTML templates, giving attackers the ability to detect and avoid this system...