hw: L1D Cache Eviction Sampling

A microarchitectural timing flaw was found on some Intel processors. A corner case exists where data in-flight during the eviction process can end up in the “fill buffers” and not properly cleared by the MDS mitigations. The fill buffer contents which were expected to be blank can be inferred usi...

h1-ctf: h1-ctf writeup , finally paid the payments by chaining multiple bugs

Summary: Ultimate aim is to pay the payments of hackerone using bounty pay with no use privileges at starting. Given scope is : .bountypay.h1ctf.com Enumerated subdomains are : 1. www.bountypay.h1ctf.com 2. app.bountypay.h1ctf.com 3. staff.bountypay.h1ctf.com 4. api.bountypay.h1ctf.com 5...

h1-ctf: [H1-2006 2020] CTF Writeup

Summary: The CTF's objective could be found in the following Twitter post: F858468 As outlined on https://hackerone.com/h1-ctf, all subdomains of bountypay.h1ctf.com are in scope. Doing subdomain enumeration revealed the following subdomains: api.bountypay.h1ctf.com app.bountypay.h1ctf.com...

h1-ctf: [H1-2006 2020] [CTF Writeup] A story about Bounty Payments, Collaboration & Community

H1-2006 CTF Writeup This is a story about both solving a CTF and, most importantly, on how to make friends during the journey and learn a lot a valuable things for the future. On a Friday evening I saw this tweet from HackerOne: F853545 Honestly, last CTF was really hard so I didn't really though...

Security Challenges in FinTech – Discussion with Vandana Verma, OWASP

In the digital era, financial institutions serve an increasing number of customers through web and mobile applications. Fintech maintains online security, and OWASP offers pieces of the puzzle to address the challenges. We CAN solve these challenges by leveraging the OWASP community knowledge bas...

h1-ctf: [H1-2006 2020] H1-2006 CTF Writeup

Hi! The challenges were really great. I had a lot of fun and I can honestly say I learned a few tricks during this journey. I will be submitting the flag now and will work on a very good writeup until the deadline. My reasoning is that there are two different prizes, one for the first ten and...

BEC Gang Exploits G Suite, Long Domain Names in Cyberattacks

Business email compromise BEC attacks continue to be a thorn in companies’ sides, with the FBI in its IC3 annual cybercrime report saying that the attacks cost victims $1.7 billion in 2019. Making matters worse, BEC cybergangs are turning to new tactics and tricks to avoid detection and capitaliz...

VPN Concerns with Unplanned Remote Employees

The volume of employees working from home is steadily increasing, especially as local recruiting limits the number of skilled people. This along with the current state of coronavirus means that throughout the world, spikes in work-from-home policies are putting pressure on IT teams to scale virtu...

Print-My-Shell - Tool To Automate The Process Of Generating Various Reverse Shells

"Print My Shell" is a python script, wrote to automate the process of generating various reverse shells based on PayloadsAllTheThings and Pentestmonkey reverse shell cheat sheets. Using this script you can easily generate various types of reverse shells without leaving your command line. This...

Skype Phishing Attack Targets Remote Workers' Passwords

Remote workers are being warned of a new phishing campaign targeting their Skype passwords. The phishing emails look “eerily similar” to a legitimate Skype notification alert, according to a report released by Cofense on Thursday. Emails indicate users have 13 pending Skype notifications that can...

The Incident Response Challenge 2020 — Win $5,000 Prize!

Cybersecurity firm Cynet today announced the launch of a first of its kind challenge to enable Incident Response professionals to test their skills with 25 forensic challenges that were built by top researchers and analysts. The challenge is available on https://incident-response-challenge.com/ a...

Security guidance for remote desktop adoption

As the volume of remote workers quickly increased over the past two to three months, the IT teams in many companies scrambled to figure out how their infrastructures and technologies would be able to handle the increase in remote connections. Many companies were forced to enhance their capabiliti...

Safe Remote Access to Critical Infrastructure Networks in a Time of Global Crisis

With governments closing down workplaces all over the world, telecommuting presents not just online administrative and capacity challenges for organizations, but also security challenges. As highlighted in a recent article by Andy Greenberg from Wired, when more and more employees are asked to VP...

Webinar: How MSSPs Can Overcome Coronavirus Quarantine Challenges

The Coronavirus quarantine introduces an extreme challenge for IT and Security teams to maintain secure environments during the mass transition of employees working remotely and the surge in cyberattacks targeting its inherent security weaknesses. In a webinar for security service providers takin...

Zoom Taps Ex-Facebook CISO Amid Security Snafus, Lawsuit

As it faces a major lawsuit, Zoom is taking a significant step to bolster security and privacy efforts by recruiting an industry heavy-hitter – former Facebook CISO Alex Stamos – to provide special counsel. It has also named third-party expert security advisory teams. The popular videoconferencin...

#LetsTalkCloud: Finding Security

Let's Talk Cloud: Season 02 // Episode 03: Host, Mark Nunnikhoven, interviews The DevOps Handbook Co-Author and Director of DevOps Relations at Snyk, Patrick Debois. Together they explore the challenges facing security-first thinking...

Attack matrix for Kubernetes

Kubernetes, the most popular container orchestration system and one of the fastest-growing projects in the history of open source, becomes a significant part of many companies’ compute stack. The flexibility and scalability of containers encourage many developers to move their workloads to...

Managing Team Burn Out

According to the World Health Organization: “Burn-out is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. It is characterized by three dimensions: feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion increased mental distance from one’s job, or...

Responding to the New Normal: How to Prevent Added Risk in Your Business

Our world has shifted dramatically over the last few weeks. Many people have moved from shock to acceptance as the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has taken hold across the world, across our nation, in our states, in our communities, and even in our organizations. Companies are particularly vulnerable...

Consumerization: a better way to answer cybersecurity challenges

A version of this article originally appeared in Forbes on February 12, 2020. Consumerization: The specific impact that consumer-originated technologies can have on enterprises. Gartner More and more, enterprises are coming to understand that they need to adopt the agile processes and product...