Portswigger has some good research on a new angle for cross-site leak attacks:
https://portswigger.net/research/xs-leak-leaking-ids-using-focus
Serverless inftastructures are slipping through the cracks as far as security testing goes. Here's a new tool for Amazon Lambda - hopefully it leads to more.
https://www.darknet.org.uk/2019/10/lambdaguard-aws-lambda-serverless-security-scanner/
Mozilla isolated an interesting RCE bug in iTerm2:
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/10/09/iterm2-critical-issue-moss-audit/
Eric Lawrence (of Fiddler fame) has a good writeup on Chrome's new direction for cookies:
https://textslashplain.com/2019/09/30/same-site-cookies-by-default/
And that's the news.
This is a blog entirely dedicated to security analysis of mobine apps. No idea who writes it but it is good.
https://theappanalyst.com/
Neat writeup on going from SQL Injection to Remote Code Execution.
https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/sql-injection-to-lfi-to-rce-536bed29a862
I've been on a PHP project recently, and I learned about this cool tool to bypass disable_functions.
https://github.com/mm0r1/exploits/tree/master/php7-gc-bypass
Speaking of PHP, the statis code analysis tool I learned to use was Exakat. Steep learning curve but unbelievable reports. And open source!
https://github.com/exakat/exakat
That's the news, folks.
The big news of the week is that every iPhone from 1 to X is apparently vulnerable to a bootROM flaw, and it is a hardware problem so Apple can't patch it. Now, this won't help malware writers fortunately, but it will make it easier to jailbreak your phone, and there are some more sinister uses as well. Several articles:
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/mac/2019/09/new-ios-exploit-checkm8-allows-permanent-compromise-of-iphones/
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/developer-of-checkm8-explains-why-idevice-jailbreak-exploit-is-a-game-changer/
https://github.com/axi0mX/alloc8
https://github.com/axi0mX/ipwndfu
McAfee published a conglomeration of their studies on Cloud security, and as I am sure you can imaging the news isn't good.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/24/mcafee_cloud_leak_study/
And there was a vulnerability discovered in Cold Fusion, so make sure you patch ... wait people still use Cold Fusion?
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/coldfusion/apsb19-47.html
Here's a neat Android reverse engineering game.
https://0x00sec.org/t/reversing-hackex-an-android-game/16243
A tool to edit images to have payloads. Use it t o test and see if your imagine processing components have vulnerabilities!
https://github.com/chinarulezzz/pixload
I have been running into HTTP Request Smuggling a lot recently after the new research by PortSwigger. Here is an interesting writeup.
https://medium.com/@memn0ps/http-request-smuggling-cl-te-7c40e246021c
That's the news, folks.
Only Rails 6.x and 5.2.x are getting security updates. Plan your development accordingly.
https://rubyonrails.org/security/
Jason Karns was kind enough to pass along this awesome upgrade helper for Rails:
https://blog.testdouble.com/posts/2019-09-03-3-keys-to-upgrading-rails
I regularly write apps up for failure to disable autofill, and this article is a good explainer.
https://www.social-engineer.com/disable-autofill-browsers/
Bruce has a really good set of reasoning on why there is no difference between "commercial" encryption and "consumer" encryption.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/the_myth_of_con.html
iOS doesn't get a lot of malware love because it's only 12% of the phone market, but the bad guys realized that 12% has a lot of money, so here are a BOATload of exploits that Google found them.
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-very-deep-dive-into-ios-exploit.html?m=1
I also write folks up for clickjacking a lot, and it is making a comeback. It's just a header people, add it.
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/08/29/web-clickjacking-fraud-makes-a-comeback-thanks-to-javascript-tricks/
Some RCE flaws discovered in PHP. Update if you can, mitigate if you can't.
https://thehackernews.com/2019/09/php-programming-language.html?m=1
That's the news. Stay safe.
Apache called out for reporting incorrect versions in Struts vulnerabilities
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/apache-struts-incorrect-security/
A new breach at First American Financial, a mortgage company, might have exposed nearly a billion records
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/08/sec-investigating-data-leak-at-first-american-financial-corp/
Fireeye is using machine learning to grade the severity of vulnerabilities
https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2019/08/automated-prioritization-of-software-vulnerabilities.html
Netflix and Google discovered a set of DDoS vulnerabilities in HTTP/2
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/14/http2_flaw_server/
Looks like Paige took a lot more than Capital One's stuff
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/14/capitalone_hacker_court/
That's the news!
A researcher found out that you can discover if a user is in incognito mode in Chrome using a timing attack.
https://blog.jse.li/posts/chrome-76-incognito-filesystem-timing/
That Microsoft RDP attack we talked about earlier? Yeah, it works in Azure.
https://thehackernews.com/2019/08/reverse-rdp-windows-hyper-v.html?m=1
In unrelated news, Microsoft has launched Azure Security Lab, a safe space to do appsec testing.
https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/08/05/azure-security-lab-a-new-space-for-azure-research-and-collaboration/
A cool bug was discovered in the Electron Framework.
https://www.contextis.com/en/blog/basic-electron-framework-exploitation
Frequent readers know that I am no fan of Apple's closed garden when it comes to app testing. Well, it might be opening a little. They have enhanced their bug bounty, and more importantly are going to offer quasi-jailbroken phones to researchers. I'll be in line for that.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/8/20756629/apple-iphone-security-research-device-program-vulnerabilities
That's the news!