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Practical advice for earning higher Microsoft bounty awards
This year at the Nullcon International Security Conference I shared practical advice for how security researchers can maximize the impact of their security vulnerability submissions and earn higher bounty awards under the Microsoft Bounty Program. For those who couldn’t be there, I had two core...
CVE-2019-9675
An issue was discovered in PHP 7.x before 7.1.27 and 7.3.x before 7.3.3. phartarwriteheadersint in ext/phar/tar.c has a buffer overflow via a long link value. NOTE: The vendor indicates that the link value is used only when an archive contains a symlink, which currently cannot happen: "This issue...
Vulnerability Management at Tinkoff Fintech School
In the last three weeks, I participated in Tinkoff Fintech School - educational program for university students. Together with my colleagues, we prepared a three-month practical Information Security course: 1 lecture per week with tests and home tasks. Each lecture is given by a member of our...
Guinea Pig and Vulnerability Management products
IMHO, security vendors use the term "Vulnerability Management" extremely inaccurate. Like a guinea pig, which is not a pig and is not related to Guinea, the current Vulnerability Management products are not about the actual practically exploitable vulnerabilities and not really about the...
Lightweight and Practical Kernel Protector for x86: Shadow-Box
Shadow-box is a security monitoring framework for operating systems using state-of-the-art virtualization technologies. Shadow-box has a novel architecture inspired by a shadow play. We made Shadow-box from scratch, and it is primarily composed of a lightweight hypervisor and a security monitor...
PMS 0.42 - Local Stack-Based Overflow (ROP)
Exploit Author: Juan Sacco - http://exploitpack.com Tested on: Kali i686 GNU/Linux Description: PMS 0.42 is prone to a local unauthenticated stack-based overflow The vulnerability is due to an unproper filter of user supplied input while reading the configuration file and parsing the malicious...
Sleuthing the Cloud: The Challenges of Forensics in Cloud Environments
More and more companies are embracing Cloud computing for the practicality, efficiency, and economy of outsourcing the housing, maintenance, and monitoring of applications and their associated infrastructure to a third-party provider. As the Cloud becomes more the norm than the exception, there i...
Intel Halts Spectre Fixes On Older Chips, Citing Limited Ecosystem Support
Intel has halted patches for an array of older chips that would protect them against the Spectre vulnerability, according to a recent microcode update. The microcode update shows that its older products – including Wolfdale, Bloomfield, Clarksfield, Gulftown, Harpertown, Jasper Forest, SoFIA 3GR,...
PMS 0.42 Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Exploit
Exploit for linux platform in category dos / poc Exploit Author: Juan Sacco - http://exploitpack.com Vulnerability found using Exploit Pack v10 - Fuzzer local module Tested on: Kali i686 GNU/Linux Description: PMS 0.42 is prone to a local unauthenticated stack-based overflow The vulnerability is...
SQLmap Tamper-API - SQLMap Tamper API To Accept Tamper Scripts From All Languages
It's an API for SQLmap tamper scripts allows you to use your favorite programming language to write your tamper scripts. This API solves SQLmap limitation of accepting only python to write tamper scripts. How it works taper-api.py script sends the payload and kwargs in a JSON format "payload": ""...
Trend Micro Capture the Flag: Train security professionals – Close the skills gap
Businesses today face a security challenge: Protecting their systems and data is vital, but there aren’t enough qualified employees who can successfully make that happen. Similarly, young cybersecurity professionals need to overcome the gap between what is learned in a classroom and the practical...
Exploitability attributes of Nessus plugins: good, bad and Vulners
Exploitability is one of the most important criteria for prioritizing vulnerabilities. Let's see how good is the exploit-related data of Tenable Nessus NASL plugins and whether we can do it better. What are the attributes related to exploits? To understand this, I parsed all nasl plugins and got...
Academia's Role in Security Skills Gap Examined
LAS VEGAS—For a long time, there’s been a chorus from employers about the lacked of skilled security professionals to fill available openings. And while it would not be an illogical leap to think universities are adequately preparing tomorrow’s security admins and CISOs, quite the opposite may be...
Best Practical Solutions Request Tracker Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability
Best Practical Solutions Request Tracker RT is an enterprise-grade, open source issue tracking system from Best Practical Solutions in the United States. The system has Bug tracking , customer service , customized workflow and other features . There is a security vulnerability in Best Practical...
Bridging the Skills Gap with Trend Micro’s Capture the Flag (CTF) Competition
We all know the IT security industry is suffering from chronic skills gaps and shortages around the world. In the US things are no different, with an estimated talent shortfall of around 40,000 jobs for information security analyst roles alone. While various initiatives have been proposed, few ha...
Space Coast Credit Union SCCU Mobile for Android and iPhone fails to properly validate SSL certificates
Overview Space Coast Credit Union SCCU Mobile for Android, version 2.1.0.1104 and earlier, and for iOS, version 2.2 and earlier, fails to properly validate SSL certificates provided by HTTPS connections, which may enable an attacker to conduct man-in-the-middle MITM attacks. Description CWE-295:...
Learn Practical Hacking Online — Get Training For Just $45!
Due to recent highly publicised hacks and high-profile data breaches, certified hackers are in huge demand and being hired by almost all industry to help them keep their networks protected. These ethical hackers not only gain reputation in the IT industry but are also one of the most well-paid...
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 - IEFRAME CMarkupPointer::MoveToGap Use-After-Free
!-- Source: http://blog.skylined.nl/20161215001.html Synopsis A specially crafted web-page can trigger a use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 9. The use appears to happen only once almost immediately after the free, which makes practical exploitation unlikely. Known affecte...
Design/Logic Flaw
An issue was discovered in Open-Xchange OX Guard before 2.4.0-rev8. OX Guard uses an authentication token to identify and transfer guest users' credentials. The OX Guard API acts as a padding oracle by responding with different error codes depending on whether the provided token matches the...
Learn Python Online — From Scratch to Penetration Testing
When we started our brand new THN Deals Store last week on the special occasion of company's 6th Anniversary, we introduced its very first product, Professional Hacking Certification Package, and received great response from our readers. Thank you! If you have not yet, you can still get this deal...