Bug bounty left over (and rant) Part III (Google and Twitter)

tl;dr in this blog post I am going to talk about some bug bounty left over with a little rant. Here you can find bug bounty left over part I and II Here you can find bug bounty rant part I and II Introduction In one of my previous post I was saying that: "The rule 1 of any bug hunter... is to hav...

“Who visits your Twitter profile” spam app brings week of chaos

Twitter spam has been around forever, and rogue apps asking for installs in return for a cool feature to be more accurate, spamming your contacts is a constant thorn in our Twittery sides. Over the weekend, we observed a new Twitter app doing the rounds and causing a lot of congestion on people's...

Il (triste??) stato della crittografia (applicata) in Italia

Ho appena finito di scrivere a proposito dei miei 3 giorni trascorsi al Real World Crypto 2018 il blog post per chi legge inglese e' qui e mi sono accorto che non c'e' traccia di nessuna Universita' ma anche azienda italiana. Tutto cio' non puo' che rendermi un po' triste. L'Italia aveva una...

Uber: ubernycmarketplace.com is vulnerable to the Heartbleed Bug

The Heartbleed Bug was a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. This allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, stea...

January 9, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “NCAA Football National Championship” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 9, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Ransomware is now estimat...

Happy 15th Birthday TaoSecurity Blog

Today, 8 January 2018, is the 15th birthday of TaoSecurity Blog! This is also my 3,020th blog post. I wrote my first post on 8 January 2003 while working as an incident response consultant for Foundstone. I don't believe I've released statistics for the blog before, so here are a few. Blogger...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of January 1, 2018

Happy New Year! It’s out with the old, in with the new, right? Except we all know that the old tends to stick around, especially when it comes to vulnerabilities and patching them. Trend Micro predicts that that 2018’s biggest attacks will originate from known vulnerabilities. And speaking of kno...

Fixing the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities

Two days ago, Graz University of Technology published a paper describing a pair of attacks on common microprocessors. The underlying vulnerability affects Intel, AMD, and ARM processors. All contemporary microprocessors pre-execute instructions. In other words, the vulnerability bypasses address...

Kansas Man Killed In ‘SWATting’ Attack

A 28-year-old Kansas man was shot and killed by police officers on the evening of Dec. 28 after someone fraudulently reported a hostage situation ongoing at his home. The false report was the latest in a dangerous hoax known as "swatting," wherein the perpetrator falsely reports a dangerous...

John McAfee’ Twitter account hack: “Most likely my phone was compromised”

By Waqas The official Twitter account of security guru John McAfee was apparently This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: John McAfee Twitter account hack: Most likely my phone was compromised...

Sendroid Bulk SMS Portal / Marketing Script 6.5.0 SQL Injection

Exploit Title: Sendroid - Bulk SMS Portal, Marketing Script 5.0.0 - 6.5.0 - SQL Injection Google Dork: "welcome to SMS portal" Date: 22/12/2017 Exploit Author: Onwuka Gideon Contact: http://twitter.com/@gideononwuka Vendor Homepage: http://ynetinteractive.com/ Software Buy:...

U.K. Man Avoids Jail Time in vDOS Case

A U.K. man who pleaded guilty to launching more than 2,000 cyberattacks against some of the world's largest companies has avoided jail time for his role in the attacks. The judge in the case reportedly was moved by pleas for leniency that cited the man's youth at the time of the attacks and a...

We’re moving to Microsoft Secure

We’re packing up and moving! Starting January 2018, we’ll move our blogs to Microsoft Secure. At Microsoft Secure, you will find technical information for Office 365, Microsoft Azure, and Windows, alongside product updates, cybersecurity guidance, industry trends, and more. You can expect the sam...

X (Formerly Twitter): Persistent DOM-based XSS in https://help.twitter.com via localStorage

Summary: I've found a DOM-based XSS vulnerability in the website help.twitter.com that persists via a localStorage key lastArticleHref. The value of this localStorage key is used to dynamically generate a piece of HTML code without proper encoding or filtering allowing an attacker to inject...

VX Search Enterprise 10.2.14 Buffer Overflow

!/usr/bin/python print " VX Search Enterprise v10.2.14 Buffer Overflow SEH \n" Exploit Title : VX Search Enterprise v10.2.14 Buffer Overflow SEH Discovery by : W01fier00t Twitter : @wolfieroot Discovery Date : 22/11/2017 Software Link : http://www.vxsearch.com/setups/vxsearchentsetupv10.2.14.exe...

Hacked Password Service Leakbase Goes Dark

Leakbase, a Web site that indexed and sold access to billions of usernames and passwords stolen in some of the world largest data breaches, has closed up shop. A source close to the matter says the service was taken down in a law enforcement sting that may be tied to the Dutch police raid of the...

macOS High Sierra - Root Privilege Escalation (CVE-2017-13872)

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Mac OS X Root Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q This module exploits a serious flaw in MacOSX High Sierra. Any user can login with user...

Mac OS X High Sierra Root Privilege Escalation Exploit

This Metasploit module exploits a serious flaw in Mac OS X High Sierra. Any user can login with user "root", leaving an empty password. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Mac OS X...

Cr3dOv3r v0.2 - Know The Dangers Of Credential Reuse Attacks

Your best friend in credential reuse attacks. Cr3dOv3r simply you give it an email then it does two simple jobs but useful : Search for public leaks for the email and if it any, it returns with all available details about the leak Using hacked-emails site API. Now you give it this email's old or...

Mac OS X Root Privilege Escalation

This module exploits a serious flaw in MacOSX High Sierra. Any user can login with user "root", leaving an empty password. Module Options msf use exploit/osx/local/root/nopassword msf undefinednopassword show actions ...actions... msf undefinednopassword set ACTION msf undefinednopassword show...