USN-3468-3: Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly bound guest IRQs. A local attacker in a guest VM could use this to cause a denial of service host system crash. CVE-2017-1000252 It was discovered that the Flash-Friendly File System f2fs implementation in the Linux...

USN-3443-3: Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerability

Andrey Konovalov discovered that a divide-by-zero error existed in the TCP stack implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2017-14106...

Kubebot: A Kubernetes Based Security Testing Slackbot

PenTestIT RSS Feed About a week ago, I blogged about List of Portable Hardware Devices for Penetration Testing. The tool that I am blogging about today - Kubebot - can be an awesome example and be installed very easily on a Raspberry Pi that you have lying around. Best part is that this is open...

Dissecting the Chrome Extension Facebook malware

It's been a few days since Kaspersky Lab's blog post about the Multi Platform Facebook malware that was spread through Facebook Messenger. At the same time as Kaspersky Lab were analyzing this threat, a few researchers where doing the same, including Frans Rosén, Security Advisor at Detectify...

How to Secure Public Clouds while Boosting Digital Transformation

It’s happening all over the business world. Organizations of all sizes and in all industries are aggressively deploying innovative products to new online consumer channels, digitizing their core services and transitioning core business workloads to public clouds as part of digital transformation...

The Unified Cloud

Throughout the history of cloud computing, 2006 was a momentous year. In 2006 Amazon Web Services released S3, the first pay per GB storage service. By August, they released EC2, allowing you to spin up a server and pay by the hour in the cloud. In the decade that has followed, AWS has emerged as...

Google Cloud Platform Compute Engine Instance Metadata Enumeration (Unix)

The remote host appears to be a Google Compute Engine instance. Nessus was able to use the metadata API to collect information about the system. TRUSTED...

Google Cloud Platform Compute Engine Instance Metadata Enumeration (Windows)

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How to protect web applications on Google Cloud Platform with WAF?

Many of the developers we speak to are interested in taking advantage of Google Compute Cloud for developing and hosting their web applications. The advantages are many from reasonable costs to built in scalability to high level of availability built right into the platform. However, the develope...

Google Cloud Platform Audit

Google Cloud Platform Audit gcp-audit takes a set of projects and audits them for common issues as defined by its ruleset. Issues can include, but are certainly not limited to, storage buckets with read/write permissions for anyone and compute engine instances with services exposed to the Interne...

Through AWS, Google Cloud and Digital Ocean DNS vulnerability take over nearly 12 million domain names-bug warning-the black bar safety net

Shortly before, I was at cloud hosting provider Digital Ocean domain into the system found a security vulnerability, an attacker or may exploit this vulnerability to take over two million of the plurality of domain names in the report of the transfer gate on. If you have not read this report whil...

The Orphaned Internet – Taking Over 120K Domains via a DNS Vulnerability in AWS, Google Cloud, Rackspace and Digital Ocean

Recently, I found that Digital Ocean suffered from a security vulnerability in their domain import system which allowed for the takeover of 20K domain names. If you haven't given that post a read I recommend doing so before going through this write up. Originally I had assumed that this issue was...

How to Safely Remove Android Traybar Icon in XenMobile

This article describes how to safely remove Android traybar icon in XenMobile. Background XenMobile has a lot of great policies to manageyour users' mobile devices. I'm going to discuss one in particular that can be a little tricky. We'll be updating our documentation to cover this in a bit more...

Vimeo: Disclosure of sensitive information through Google Cloud Storage bucket

An insecure bucket was discovered on the GCP platform that had some debug information in it. Steps were taken to secure the bucket and it's contents...

Snapchat: Administrator access to a Django Administration Panel on *.sc-corp.net via bruteforced credentials

Hey team, While doing some recon for Snapchat's domains, I came across a particular domain of interest - sc-corp.net. It seems that this domain hosts a lot of Snapchat's internal tools, web applications and staging environments such as Phabricator and other administration panels. From analyzing S...

Spy Banker Banking Malware Hosted on Google Cloud Server

A new run of Spy Banker banking malware infections has been targeting Portuguese-speaking victims in Brazil. While Spy Banker is an old threat, dating back to 2009 according to some security companies, the latest wrinkle attackers are taking is a new one. The campaign, spotted by researchers at...

Yahoo! Launches Free Web Application Security Scanner

Yahoo! has open-sourced Gryffin – a Web Application Security Scanner – in an aim to improve the safety of the Web for everyone. Currently in its beta, Project Gryffin has made available on Github under the BSD-style license that Yahoo! has been using for a number of its open-sourced projects...

Cloud Source Repositories: Google Quietly Launches GitHub Competitor

After the death of Google code this winter, Google is apparently back in the business through the launch of its private Git repository hosting service on Google Cloud Platform called Cloud Source Repositories. Not yet officially announced, but Google started providing free beta access to its new...

Security Advisory-Multiple Vulnerabilities on Huawei P2 Smartphone

This security advisory SA describes two vulnerabilities. The decoder driver of P2 was found to allow any application to read or write to an arbitrary memory address. HWPSIRT-2014-0401 This Vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE ID: CVE-2014-2273. The Kingsoft...

Flappy Bird app clones send text messages to Premium Number

Flappy Bird, developed by a 29-year old, Dong Nguyen, was one of the top free gaming apps of the last month, but now officially unavailable for users. After achieving income of $50,000 per day in advertising revenue, Dong Nguyen pulled out Flappy Bird gaming app from all the web app stores and no...