• OWASP Amass: in-depth attack surface mapping and asset discovery

    The OWASP Amass Project is tool developed to help information security professionals during the mapping process of attack perimeter. It allows DNS enumeration, attack surface mapping & external assets discovery, using open source information gathering and active reconnaissance techniques. OWASP… read more »
  • My Weekly RoundUp #126

    This week: new layout and a lots of interesting links! Privacy WhatsApp contains ‘dangerous’ and deliberate backdoors, claims Telegram founder in a scathing blog post, Telegram Messenger’s founder, Pavel Durov, has added insult to the Facebook-owned instant messaging app’s injury by… read more »
  • SpiderFoot 3.0: OSINT reconnaissance tool

    SpiderFoot is an OSINT automation tool for reconnaissance process, written in Python 3 and GPL-licensed. Recently, Steve Micallef released on GitHub [1] a new version (3) of SpiderFoot, with a lot of interesting enhancements. Web based UI or CLI Over 170 modules (see… read more »
  • CVE-2019-18426: WhatsApp bug allowed remote access to users computers with just a text message

    Recently, developers of famous messaging app acknowledged and patched a major vulnerability that gave malicious users the ability to access files on a victim's computer. A target user may fall prey to this attack simply clicking a disguised link preview… read more »
  • Simon Weckert Google Maps Hack: a hoax?

    Is it really possible to create a fake traffic jam on Google Maps? According to ArsTechnica [1] and TheRegister [2], the german artist Simon Wecker realized a performance art piece, named "Google Maps Hacks", walking around the roads of Berlin… read more »
  • My Weekly RoundUp #125

    Some server issues, this week! So few links, sorry! Cybersecurity IM­P4GT: IM­Per­so­na­ti­on At­tacks in 4G NeT­works Long Term Evo­lu­ti­on (LTE/4G) es­ta­blis­hes mu­tu­al au­then­ti­ca­ti­on with a prov­a­b­ly se­cu­re Au­then­ti­ca­ti­on and Key Agree­ment (AKA) pro­to­col on layer three of the net­work stack.… read more »
  • Some thoughts on Information Technology in a post-apocalyptic environment

    Some funny thoughts about information technology on a post-apocalyptic environment, and some info about a more serious project! When most people think about what to do after an apocalyptic event, the first time that comes to mind is food and… read more »
  • CVE-2019-8641: remotely compromising an iPhone through iMessage

    Last December, in a talk at 36th Chaos Communication Congress, Samuel Groß presented a technical report about the infamous iOS vulnerability that allowed remote code execution on all iDevices up to iOS 12.4, within a couple of minutes and without… read more »
  • CacheOut - Another day, another CPU attack!

    A team of researchers from University of Michigan (Stephan van Schaik, Marina Minkin, Andrew Kwong and Daniel Genkin) and University of Adelaide (Yuval Yarom) recently presented a new attack technique that targets Intel CPUs. The attack, dubbed CacheOut (CVE-2020-0549), is… read more »
  • TLDR #1: Jeff Bezos’ iPhone hack

    Just few words (and links) about this hot topic. The Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos had his mobile phone “hacked” in 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message that had apparently been sent from the personal account of the crown prince of… read more »
  • My Weekly RoundUp #124

    Starting from this week, I'm going to start a recostructing of WeeklyRoundup (and also the whole blog): less images, more content! (...and, yes! Star Trek: Picard is awesome!) Cybersecurity Jeff Bezos hack: Amazon boss's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'… read more »
  • Some thoughts about SIM Hijacking

    The SIM hijacking, also know as SIM swapping, is an attack where a criminal contacts the cell phone provider of a target user, and convinces it (sometimes involving employees of the phone company) to switch target's account to a SIM… read more »
  • DevSecOps: the value of "Security Champions"

    In a previous article [1], I've started to talk about DevSecOps and the concept of "shifting left" security.In order to move security checks to the early steps of development, a great help may be the presence of a security-aware person… read more »
  • FBI got data from a locked iPhone 11 using GrayKey: how does this tool work?

    The recent deadly shooting last month at a naval air station in Pensacola, Fla., brought in the spotlight the issue of iOS security: attorney General William P. Barr requested Apple to provide access to two phones used by the killer.… read more »
  • Security researcher found a hardcoded SSH Key in Fortinet SIEM appliances

    Security researcher Andrew Klaus, from Cybera, discovered a hardcoded SSH public key in Fortinet’s Security Information and Event Management FortiSIEM that can be used in order to generate a denial of service against the FortiSIEM Supervisor. Fortinet devices share the… read more »
  • My Weekly RoundUp #123

    Just some stuff i read in the last seven days... Cybersecurity Cable Haunt: Unknown millions of Broadcom-based cable modems open to hijacking A vulnerability (CVE-2019-19494) in Broadcom‘s cable modem firmware can open unknown millions of broadband modems by various manufacturers… read more »
  • CVE-2020-0601: a critical Windows vulnerability discovered by...NSA!

    Recently, Microsoft released a patch that fixes a critical vulnerability in the Windows' crypto library. According to the advisory [1]: A spoofing vulnerability exists in the way Windows CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll) validates Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificates. An attacker could exploit… read more »
  • Some thoughts about "Shift Left" security in DevSecOps

    A popular term in DevOps context is “shift left”: it refers to the effort by a DevOps team to implement measures to guarantee application quality at the most early point in the software development life cycle. In a application security context,… read more »
  • CVE-2019-19781: my clippings on the infamous Citrix Netscaler vulnerability

    Many Proof-of-concept exploits has been released for the unpatched remote-code-execution vulnerability in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller and Citrix Gateway products. Below a list of useful links/quotes/posts on this topic. The vulnerability The vulnerability (CVE-2019-19781), already packs a double-punch in… read more »
  • My Weekly RoundUp #122

    I know, last week I slacked off, so few interesting links.Don't worry, few but good! Cybersecurity PoC exploits for Citrix ADC and Gateway CVE-2019-19781 flaw released online Experts announced the availability online of proof-of-concept exploit code for CVE-2019-19781 flaw in Citrix NetScaler… read more »