For many organizations, rapidly implementing work-from-home initiatives over the past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic required quickly rolling out new processes and deploying new technologies without adequate time for attention to Information Security standards. Perhaps your company recently acquired a new line of business, and you want to make sure the integration won’t adversely…
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In the age of threat hunting, automated mass scanning, and the occasionally curious SOC, properly securing your command and control (C2) infrastructure is key to any engagement. While many setups today include a CDN Domain Front with a custom Nginx or Apache ruleset sprinkled on top, I wanted to share my recipe for success. Fully…
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We’ve all been there: you’ve completed your initial recon, sent in your emails to gather those leaked HTTP headers, spent an age configuring your malleable profile to be just right, set up your CDNs, and spun up your redirectors. Then it’s time, you send in your email aaaaaand…nothing. You can see from your DNS diagnostic…
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A security researcher (Joel Noguera @niemand_sec) discovered a ‘critical’ misconfiguration bug in Spring Data’s Application Level Profile Semantics (ALPS). This bug allows unauthenticated users to perform an Application Programming Interface (API) request, which responds with sensitive user data that can be utilized, manipulated, or even deleted. What is ALPS? “ALPS [is] a data format for defining…
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I’m sure everyone is already using Masscan and I’m the last one to jump on the bandwagon. Honestly, I don’t know how I got anything done before finding this tool. If you’re not aware, Masscan is an asynchronous, TCP network port scanner. It’s an incredibly fast tool that can be used to quickly identify live…
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In this post, I will cover some easy things that defenders can do to make it harder for attackers to succeed. As you all know, there is never a silver bullet when it comes to security, so these tips will only make it harder for attackers by focusing on the basics, and sometimes, that helps…
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Reporting is an essential piece of the penetration testing puzzle. It’s the product your client will be reviewing within their organization, representing you and your company to those you may not have worked with directly. With that in mind, it’s important that your product, the report, strikes a balance between professional tone and cold facts….
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They say, “Everything old is new again.” Or, if you are a Game of Thrones fan, “What is dead may never die.” For me, however, a mentor once told me, “Everyone is going forward. I’m going backward.” Enter NetSync… I find Twitter to be a good source for InfoSec tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). Anytime…
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This is a continuation of The Tale of the Lost, but not Forgotten, Undocumented NetSync (part 1) and in this section, we will look to answer: What are Some Early Indicators to Detect NetSync at the Host-based Level? What are Some Possible Controls to Deter NetSync? In an accompanying blog post, Are You Seeing What…
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A Brief Look at Approaches to Logging and Pitfalls to Avoid TL;DR The Logger++ extension is a great tool for recording requests and responses across all of Burp Suite. However, it is important to ensure enough log entries are retained from the tools you expect and that logs are exported if you want to keep…
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