Application Security This Week for May 19

by Bill Sempf 19. May 2019 11:21

Container security is a big deal, with OWASP A9 showing up more and more.  Here is a tool that will help with container scanning, and it is compatible with your continuous integration builds.

https://github.com/knqyf263/trivy

 

WhatsApp had a bug, but that doesn't dismiss the importance of end-to-end encryption.  Discuss.

https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-hack-phone-call-voip-buffer-overflow/

 

Someone found a user after free vulnerability in the Linux kernal going alllll the way back.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/linux-kernel-prior-to-508-vulnerable-to-remote-code-execution/

 

And that's the news!

 

 

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Application Security This Week for May 12

by Bill Sempf 12. May 2019 08:56

If you have been in my classes, you know that I often point to weev as my example for why not to hack live sites.  Well, now I have a new example.

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/israel-hamas-hacker-airstrikes.html

 

DHS is putting a 15 day deadline on all critical patches.  Maybe that Windows NT4SP2 box will get a little sumpn sumpn, huh?

https://thehackernews.com/2019/05/dhs-patch-vulnerabilities.html

 

The Google CTF is coming up in a month or so.  Start doing those ZAP pushups.

https://security.googleblog.com/2019/05/google-ctf-2019-is-here.html

 

El Reg has a great article on the latest (of many) SQLite RCE flaws.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/10/sqlite_rce_vuln/

 

Y'all know that cryptography is not my best subject, but this is important. SHA1 is now provably just as broken as MD5, so start scrubbing it from codebases, except in cases like HMAC.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/459

 

That's the news!

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Application Security This Week for April 28

by Bill Sempf 28. April 2019 10:26

Another Weblogic deserialization bug.

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/84450/breaking-news/oracle-weblogic-zeroday.html

I have a PR in for Nikto for it

https://github.com/sullo/nikto/pull/607

 

A reminder that application security is more than SQL Injection: good analysis of the bugs that caused the 737 Max wrecks. I had to drop it in Pastebin because IEEE put it behind the paywall.

https://pastebin.com/QEiKvvMM

 

Using Git dotfiles to bypass authentication.

https://blog.assetnote.io/bug-bounty/2019/04/23/getting-access-zendesk-gcp/

 

ZDNet, of all places, has a really good, plain language explainer of credential stuffing.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/an-inside-look-at-how-credential-stuffing-operations-work/

 

Little more on the dev side - 10 articles reviewed about using Python in machine learning.

https://hackernoon.com/10-great-articles-on-python-development-6f54dd38437f

 

And that 's the news!  I'll be on vacation next week, so see you on the 12th.

 

 

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Application Security This Week for April 21

by Bill Sempf 21. April 2019 17:11

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Application Security This Week for April 14

by Bill Sempf 14. April 2019 10:11

The Stack Overflow Survey is out and has some interesting insights

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019

 

Rebex has built a tool to scan SSH servers, similar to the Qualis SSL scan

https://sshcheck.com/

 

A new OWASP project that I'm participating in is aiming at inventorying and improving the overall security postures of package managers - take a look

https://github.com/OWASP/packman

 

And that's the news!

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Application Security This Week for April 7

by Bill Sempf 7. April 2019 07:52

PortSwigger has replaced the exercises in the Web Application Security Hacker's Handbook with the new Web Academy.

https://portswigger.net/web-security

 

An ARM assembler - in JavaScript.  I don't even have the words, this is so awesome.

https://azm.azerialabs.com/

 

Writing a talk?  Here are 60 information security statistics with corresponding references.

https://itblogr.com/60-must-know-cybersecurity-statistics-for-2019/

 

Google has started their own vulnerability database.  I'm not sure why, we already have several, but it is worth a look.

https://www.vulncode-db.com/

 

And that's the news!

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Application Security This Week for March 31

by Bill Sempf 31. March 2019 12:30

No April Fools here.

 

Solid primer on using burp Collaborator for blind command injection.  One of the real benefits of Burp over ZAP.

https://threat.tevora.com/stop-collaborate-and-listen/

 

Bruce weighs in on a study where freelance devs were checked for their secure coding.  It didn't go well.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/03/programmers_who.html

 

A new tool for testing on Windows.  Now, I don't use Windows for EVERYTHING but it is nice for a lot of things.  I'll be checking this out.

https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/83065/hacking/commando-vm-windows.html

 

And that's the news!

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Application Security This Week for March 24

by Bill Sempf 24. March 2019 07:56

Bruce has some thoughts on a well-circulated article suggesting that application security isn't that important after all.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/03/an_argument_tha.html

 

Solid analysis of SimBad, a rogue malware campaign that infiltrated the Google Play store.

https://research.checkpoint.com/simbad-a-rogue-adware-campaign-on-google-play/

 

Terrifying tool that creates a spoofed cert for any website and signs an executable for AV Evasion.

https://github.com/paranoidninja/CarbonCopy

 

More awesome research from Rapid7, on deserialization bugs.  A topic, as regular readers know, that is near and dear to my heart.

https://www.rapid7.com/research/report/exploiting-jsos/

 

And that's the news!

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Application Security This Week for March 17

by Bill Sempf 17. March 2019 10:22

Android malware had almost 150 MILLION Googe Play Store downloads before it is was discovered and pulled.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18263739/android-adware-simbad-google-play-store

 

Awesome User Access Control bypass that never saves anything to disk.  As always PLEASE be careful playing with malware.

https://www.activecyber.us/activelabs/windows-uac-bypass

I wrote something similar for FALE a LOOOONG time ago but the ActiveLabs tool is better.

https://github.com/lockfale/DotNetAVBypass-Master

 

It's old home week.  Subdomain brute forcing tool in VISUAL BASIC 6!!  If anyone gets this up and running let me know, I would, but it triggers my PTSD.

https://github.com/visualbasic6/subdomain-bruteforce

 

Thanks to Jim Holmes to tuning me into this list - collected exploits for web attacks.  

https://github.com/swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings

 

And that's the news!!

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Application Security This Week for March 10

by Bill Sempf 10. March 2019 11:53

The NSA has open sourced their internal reverse engineering tool.  It's so good, many consultants I know and trust have moved to it from IDA.

https://ghidra-sre.org/

 

This is a great story from the Verge that reminds us all to occasionally look at the ANSI alphabet for attacks ... and passwords.

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/3/5/18252150/bad-password-security-data-breach-taiwan-ji32k7au4a83-have-i-been-pwned

 

Remember that guy, who might or might not write this blog, who said that SPECTRE isn't a real vulnerability and it will never be exploitable?  Well, he was wrong.  Again.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/05/spoiler_intel_processor_flaw/

 

In the department of Standing On The Shoulders of Giants, we have a ring of GitHub accounts that are promoting forked and backdoored versions of popular software.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/researchers-uncover-ring-of-github-accounts-promoting-300-backdoored-apps/

 

And that's the news!

 

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