OWASP Top 10 doesn’t need an introduction: it’s certainly the most well-known project of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), referenced by every single presentation, paper, brochure and blog post that is at least slightly related to web application security. But unfortunately, according to my experiences, most of the...
2014-03-31 — 6 minute readDuring one of our internal network penetration testings, I focused on the network devices. The customer had 3Com/HP switches. Little portscan with NSE revealed that the switches used default SNMP community strings (public and private)! I checked SNMP problems affecting 3Com/HP switches; there was a really interesting issue: 3Com, HP,...
2014-03-14 — 1 minute readSanitizing input (as in trying to remove a subset of user input so that the remaining parts become “safe”) is hard to get right in itself. However, many developers doom their protection in the first place by choosing the wrong tool to get it done, in this case, regular expressions...
2014-03-07 — 6 minute readSymantec (formerly Veritas) Backup Exec is one of my all-time favorites in pentest projects: it has a very nice list of vulnerabilities ranging form basic stack overflows through a hardcoded password to arbitrary file reads. Although most of these vulnerabilities aren’t new, some users tend to accept the risk of...
2014-02-27 — 7 minute readTesting a website is usually considered just another day at work, Burp Suite is usually the tool of our choice for automating some of the scans that apply in this field. Assessing the authenticated part of the site is also common, and since Burp can be used as an HTTP...
2014-02-20 — 3 minute readDuring a recent project we found a Java Debug Wire Protocol interface open at a server. I was a bit surprised when I was able to attach to it using JDB, the Java debugger – this was too easy. Or was it? Prdelka has a pretty decent write-up on the...
2014-02-09 — 3 minute readIn this post I would like to share some experiences of a web application hacking project. After I got access to the admin section of the web application I realized that there is a file upload function available for administrators. The application properly denied uploading dynamic scripts (eg.: .php) and...
2014-01-31 — 2 minute readI’ve always wanted to take a look at the security of 3G modem sticks but as a more “high-level” guy, I basically procrastinated the task of messing with kernel drivers and such, and settled to installing these devices into disposable virtual machines for security. But after I saw the presentation...
2014-01-23 — 4 minute read