Thunderstorm - Modular Framework To Exploit UPS Devices

Thunderstorm is a modular framework to exploit UPS devices. For now, only the CS-141 and NetMan 204 exploits will be available. The beta version of the framework will be released on the future. CVE Thunderstorm is currently capable of exploiting the following CVE: CVE-2022-47186 – Unrestricted fi...

Minter privilege escalation vulnerability

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The contract owner could potentially abuse their privileges to manipulate the token supply and undermine the integrity of the token economy. Proof of Concept The 'setMinter' function in the contract allows the contract owner to set the minter status for...

Aura - Python Source Code Auditing And Static Analysis On A Large Scale

Source code auditing and static code analysis Aura is a static analysis framework developed as a response to the ever-increasing threat of malicious packages and vulnerable code published on PyPI. Project goals: provide an automated monitoring system over uploaded packages to PyPI, alert on...

An integrated approach to security audits

A cyberattack can be devastating to any organization because it compromises sensitive data and, as a result, the financial position, strategic vision, and more important, the trust and credibility that the enterprise has built over the years. Given the magnitude of this risk, what role does the I...

McAfee Policy Auditor Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

McAfee Policy Auditor is an agent-based IT assessment solution that leverages the Security Content Automation Protocol SCAP to automate the processes required for internal and external IT and security audits.A reflective cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in versions of McAfee Policy Audit...

Exploiting Oracle WebLogic by Remote Code Execution with a /console endpoint restricted

This article explains how to exploit Oracle WebLogic for remote code execution by using valid credentials. Its useful during black-box security audits, pentests, and infrastructure audits, including automated vulnerability scanning. To set up an example playground, we will use the following docke...

D-Link Agrees to 10 Years of Security Audits to Settle FTC Charges

Taiwanese networking equipment manufacturer D-Link has agreed to implement a "comprehensive software security program" in order to settle a Federal Trade Commission FTC lawsuit alleging that the company didn't take adequate steps to protect its consumers from hackers. Your wireless router is the...

D-Link Agrees to 10 Years of Security Audits to Settle FTC Charges

Taiwanese networking equipment manufacturer D-Link has agreed to implement a "comprehensive software security program" in order to settle a Federal Trade Commission FTC lawsuit alleging that the company didn't take adequate steps to protect its consumers from hackers. Your wireless router is the...

Threats posed by using RATs in ICS

While conducting audits, penetration tests and incident investigations, we have often come across legitimate remote administration tools RAT for PCs installed on operational technology OT networks of industrial enterprises. In a number of incidents that we have investigated, threat actors had use...

Microsoft Windows: Shut down system immediately if unable to log security audits

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winauditshutdownunablelog.nasl 11532 2018-09-21 19:07:30Z cfischer $ Check value for Audit: Shut down system immediately if unable to log security audits Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks...

Microsoft Windows 10: Generate security audits

This policy setting determines which accounts can be used by a process to generate audit records in the security event log. The Local Security Authority Subsystem Service LSASS writes events to the log. You can use the information in the security event log to trace unauthorized device access...

Cybersecurity Certification Courses – CISA, CISM, CISSP

The year 2017 saw some of the biggest cybersecurity incidents—from high profile data breaches in Equifax and Uber impacting millions of users to thousands of businesses and millions of customers being affected by the global ransomware threats like WannaCry and NotPetya. The year ended, but it did...

Parrot Security 3.9 - Security GNU/Linux Distribution Designed with Cloud Pentesting and IoT Security in Mind

Security GNU/Linux distribution designed with cloud pentesting and IoT security in mind. It includes a full portable laboratory for security and digital forensics experts, but it also includes all you need to develop your own softwares or protect your privacy with anonymity and crypto tools...

Nmap 7.60 - Free Security Scanner For Network Exploration & Security Audits

Nmap "Network Mapper" is a free and open source utility for network discovery and security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. Nmap uses raw IP packets...

Critical RCE Flaw Found in OpenVPN that Escaped Two Recent Security Audits

A security researcher has found four vulnerabilities, including a critical remote code execution bug, in OpenVPN, those were not even caught in the two big security audits of the open source VPN software this year. OpenVPN is one of the most popular and widely used open source VPN software...

Securing Elections

Technology can do a lot more to make our elections more secure and reliable, and to ensure that participation in the democratic process is available to all. There are three parts to this process. First, the voter registration process can be improved. The whole process can be streamlined. People...

OWASP SSL audit: O-Saft

O-Saft is an easy to use tool to show informations about SSL certificate and tests the SSL connection according given list of ciphers and various SSL configurations. It’s designed to be used by penetration testers, security auditors or server administrators. The idea is to show the important...

China Demands Tech Companies to give them Backdoor and Encryption Keys

A number of western companies are doing big business in China, but now they may have to pay a huge value for to do so. China has introduced strict new banking cyber security regulations on western companies selling technology to Chinese banks. The Chinese government wants backdoors installed in a...

EAP6: Plain text password logging during security audit

It was found that the security audit functionality logged request parameters in plain text. This may have caused passwords to be included in the audit log files when using BASIC or FORM-based authentication. A local attacker with access to audit log files could possibly use this flaw to obtain...

Nmap 6.47 - Free Security Scanner For Network Exploration & Security Audits

Nmap is a utility for port scanning large networks, although it works fine for single hosts. Sometimes you need speed, other times you may need stealth. In some cases, bypassing firewalls may be required. Not to mention the fact that you may want to scan different protocols UDP, TCP, ICMP, etc...