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Pentesting
Tools & Techniques
Pentesting Apache Kafka 101 : Top 5 Security Misconfigurations
Discover the security misconfigurations that can affect an Apache Kafka cluster and the steps you can take to mitigate them. Improve your Apache Kafka security with these best practices.
Pentesting
Tools & Techniques
AppSec: Using Radamsa to Fuzz for User Input Validation
Web applications are everywhere these days, from our banking to our social media accounts - and security is an ever-growing concern for both developers and users alike. Improper input validation is a major source of those security vulnerabilities, which can lead to potentially devastating results if left unchecked.
Executive Level
Managing Risk
Top 5 Agile Pentesting Challenges in DevOps
As the Agile software development adoption continues to grow, businesses are increasingly looking to incorporate manual human-driven penetration testing, dynamic vulnerability code analysis, and SAST tools into their CI/CD pipelines. However, it is equally important for businesses to be aware of the challenges that this approach presents in their efforts to create and deploy secure software.
Executive Level
Managing Risk
Agile Pentesting — Benefits
An Agile pen test is a new approach to pentesting that allows security professionals to adapt to changing needs and environments quickly. The takeaway from this is that organizations should benefit from staying ahead of the curve regarding security threats and effectively protecting their systems against a wide range of newly discovered attack vectors reported in the current threat landscape.
Executive Level
Managing Risk
CISA CPG Checklist v1.0
We share the following as a visual simplified version and a Word document that address the security controls in the CISA Account Security v1.0 Official Guideline.
General
Annoucement
We've Changed Our Name To SYN CUBES
When we initially started almost four years ago, our vision was to use our extensive knowledge and create the most incredible Pentest as a Service (PTaaS) solution out there. At the same time, we also wanted to approach things differently...
If you're looking to get into the world of Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines, this blog post is for you. I'll cover what Jenkins is, the benefits of using it, what are the most important CVEs affecting it, and a couple of resources worth looking into. Then you can use all this knowledge to your advantage and secure your pipeline.
API / Misconfiguration
Google Maps
A Pentester Story - How to Increase the Impact of a Underrated Issue
Too many organizations are risking their financial stability by not implementing proper security boundaries when using the Google Maps API Key. If you're in charge of an application that needs access to this service, be sure you have configured properly and placed appropriate security controls to prevent external abuse.
API / Misconfiguration
Google Maps
A Pentester Story - How to Increase the Impact of a Underrated Issue
Too many organizations are risking their financial stability by not implementing proper security boundaries when using the Google Maps API Key. If you're in charge of an application that needs access to this service, be sure you have configured properly and placed appropriate security controls to prevent external abuse.
Compliance
SOC 2 Type 2
Demystifying SOC 2 Type II Compliance Audit - What a Pentester Needs to Know
Drawing an early line in the sand, an audit and security are NOT the same things. Even if a company meets defined maturity of controls that does not necessarily mean it is secure. Compliance framework relies on a solid set of standards and regulations that work on a set of assumptions.
AppSec / Java
CVE-2021-44228
Java Log4j Vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228)- Keep Your Head Cool
Java Log4j vulnerability proved one of the most severe security flows in years. Six hours later, after the initial Proof-of-Concept was published, the situation escalated quickly. The exploit was already reported to be weaponized and used at scale.
GANs emerged as a cutting-edge technology around six years ago. Using them showed that there is an endless possibility of generating realistic fake photos. In this blog I am describing my experience dealing with an unexpected situation while using a social media platform.
Security Engineering
OSINT
PDF Documents Metadata and Practical Examples of How to Handle It
In this blog post we explore and detail a couple of straightforward technical solutions that any business can consider during the process of limiting information exposure through its public documents metadata fields.
Security Engineering
C-Level
Pentesting is Just the Beginning
Security Engineering skill set gap has created a substantial market for contract-based pentesting - a gig-style, one-and-done arrangement driven by global freelancing and bug bounty platforms.
Offensive Security Testing
C-Level
Standard Pentest vs. Adversarial Simulation
Supposing you are a C-Level executive, CISO role, or holding a similar position, within this article, we tried detailing a few hints about what a mature security vendor should provide to you as part of an engagement journey.
CRM
Information Disclosure
Probing Oracle Eloqua CRM for Sensitive Information Exposure
Jon Lu discloses his steps to trigger a Sensitive Information Exposure issue by starting to analyze a couple of analytic tracking ids and then investigate further a low impact security misconfiguration.
Browser
Extensions
Microsoft Edge and the new attack surface
We narrow down an introspective into Microsoft's stunning move of launching its new Edge browser to millions of Microsoft Windows 10 users via windows update. Microsoft's new Edge browser is based on the Chromium engine, which is the same as the leading competitor browser, Chrome.