Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar Incident Forensics is vulnerable to a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Apache Tika (CVE-2018-17197)

Summary Open source Apache Tika as used in IBM QRadar Incident Forensics is vulnerable to denial of service. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-17197 Description: Apache Tika is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the SQLite3Parser. By using a specially-crafted file, a...

Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar Incident Forensics is vulnerable to publicly disclosed vulnerabilities from Apache Tika (CVE-2018-11761, CVE-2018-11762, CVE-2018-8017,  CVE-2018-11796)

Summary Open source Apache Tika as used in IBM QRadar Incident Forensics is affected by multiple vulnerabilities Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-11761 Description: Apache Tika is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to configure XML parsers to limit entity expansion. A...

Cellebrite Claims It Can Unlock Any iPhone

The digital forensics company Cellebrite now claims it can unlock any iPhone. I dithered before blogging this, not wanting to give the company more publicity. But I decided that everyone who wants to know already knows, and that Apple already knows. It's all of us that need to know...

RedGhost - Linux Post Exploitation Framework Designed To Gain Persistence And Reconnaissance And Leave No Trace

Linux post exploitation framework designed to assist red teams in gaining persistence, reconnaissance and leaving no trace. Payloads Function to generate various encoded reverse shells in netcat, bash, python, php, ruby, perl Crontab Function to create cron job that downloads and runs payload eve...

Sliver - Implant Framework

Sliver is a general purpose cross-platform implant framework that supports C2 over Mutual-TLS, HTTPS, and DNS. Implants are dynamically compiled with unique X.509 certificates signed by a per-instance certificate authority generated when you first run the binary. The server, client, and implant a...

Cellebrite claims its new tool unlocks almost any iOS or Android device

By Waqas Cellebrite is the same company which helped the FBI to unlock iPhone device of San Bernardino shooter. Renowned Law Enforcement contractor, the Israel-based forensics firm Cellebrite has claimed that they have developed a perfect tool to hack almost every high-end Android and iOS device,...

PcapXray v2.5 - A Network Forensics Tool To Visualize A Packet Capture Offline As A Network Diagram

PcapXray is a Network Forensics Tool To visualize a Packet Capture offline as a Network Diagram including device identification, highlight important communication and file extraction. PcapXray Design Specification Goal: Given a Pcap File, plot a network diagram displaying hosts in the network,...

OSINT-Search - Useful For Digital Forensics Investigations Or Initial Black-Box Pentest Footprinting

OSINT-Search is a useful tool for digital forensics investigations or initial black-box pentest footprinting. OSINT-Search Description Script in Python that applies OSINT techniques by searching public data using email addresses, phone numbers, domains, IP addresses or URLs. Create an account at...

How Not to Acknowledge a Data Breach

I'm not a huge fan of stories about stories, or those that explore the ins and outs of reporting a breach. But occasionally I feel obligated to publish such accounts when companies respond to a breach report in such a way that it's crystal clear they wouldn't know what to do with a data breach if...

Hey Secret Service: Don't Plug Suspect USB Sticks into Random Computers

I just noticed this bit from the incredibly weird story of the Chinese woman arrested at Mar-a-Lago: Secret Service agent Samuel Ivanovich, who interviewed Zhang on the day of her arrest, testified at the hearing. He stated that when another agent put Zhang's thumb drive into his computer, it...

For a driver to mention the right vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

One, Foreword As Microsoft is constantly reinforcing core safety, enhance the native kernel components of the exploit difficulty, and now third party kernel drivers are gradually becoming the attacker's preferred target, is security analysts the focus of the study. Signed third-party driver...

Forensics and the Internet of Things (IoT)

Today, the Internet of Things IoT means that billions of devices are connected to the Internet. People and organizations are looking to connect devices more frequently for automation, simplification, and the feature advantages the IoT delivers. Items such as smoke detectors, glasses, watches,...

Volatility Workbench - A GUI For Volatility Memory Forensics

Volatility Workbench is a graphical user interface GUI for the Volatility tool. Volatility is a command line memory analysis and forensics tool for extracting artifacts from memory dumps. Volatility Workbench is free, open source and runs in Windows. It provides a number of advantages over the...

Houzz Urges Password Resets After Data Breach

Interior decorating website Houzz on Friday issued a notice that user data – including usernames, passwords and IP addresses – had been accessed by an “unauthorized third party.” Houzz connects consumers to varying home-goods departments or professionals for purchasing furniture. The Palo Alto,...

Get 10 Popular Books To Learn Advanced Hacking [2018 Bundle]

It should come as no surprise that cybersecurity is one of the most important and lucrative fields in the world right now, and it's becoming more important every day—thanks to a growing number of cyber attacks that are targeting everything from individuals and startups to Fortune 500 companies an...

Get 10 Popular Books To Learn Advanced Hacking [2018 Bundle]

It should come as no surprise that cybersecurity is one of the most important and lucrative fields in the world right now, and it's becoming more important every day—thanks to a growing number of cyber attacks that are targeting everything from individuals and startups to Fortune 500 companies an...

Long-Range Familial Searching Forensics

Good article on using long-range familial searching -- basically, DNA matching of distant relatives -- as a police forensics tool. EDITED TO ADD 1/5: A smattering of papers on the topic...

MD5 and SHA-1 Still Used in 2018

Last week, the Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence published a draft document -- "SWGDE Position on the Use of MD5 and SHA1 Hash Algorithms in Digital and Multimedia Forensics" -- where it accepts the use of MD5 and SHA-1 in digital forensics applications: While SWGDE promotes the adopti...

Radare2 - Unix-Like Reverse Engineering Framework And Commandline Tools Security

r2 is a rewrite from scratch of radare in order to provide a set of libraries and tools to work with binary files. Radare project started as a forensics tool, a scriptable command-line hexadecimal editor able to open disk files, but later added support for analyzing binaries, disassembling code,...

IBM QRadar Incident Forensics Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-25037)

IBM QRadar Incident Forensics is a suite of security forensic investigation software from IBM. The software supports in-depth forensic investigations of suspected malicious network security incidents, and the repair of network security vulnerabilities. A security vulnerability exists in IBM QRada...