I'm pleased to announce our fourth release, the Vulnerability Management Program Pack. The goal of this release is to provide everything you'd need to establish and setup a fully functioning vulnerability management program at your company. - Robert Auger (@robertauger) In this pack, we cover: Vulnerability Level Definitions: This document outlines vulnerability...
Introduction There are numerous considerations beyond selecting a provider, many of which are often overlooked in public documentation. The goal of the Bug Bounty Program pack is to help people quickly ramp up on the topic, providing them with the necessary information to begin their journey and ultimately launch a program. -...
In addition to CGISecurity I work on other side projects from time to time. Below is my second announcement from my latest project. Introduction I have built out several penetration testing programs, both internally and externally at companies such as eBay, Paypal, and Box to name a few. Before you have the...
In addition to CGISecurity I work on other side projects from time to time. Below is an announcement about my latest project. Introduction I've worked in the security industry for over 20 years and, during this time, have built and shaped many security programs. At every company I join, I find myself...
Just realized that 20 years have passed since I started this site to learn more about web security threats. What 'appsec' looked like in 2000 OWASP didn't exist yet, nor did WASC Vulnerability disclosure was the wild west. Rain forest puppy (RFP) (that guy who discovered sqli) had just created the first...
I've been fortunate enough to manage a red team program for several years and since it's inception it has gone through many changes. What started out as adhoc engagements trying to see how far we could get/what problems we could find, turned into a mechanism to work more closely, and regularly with...
Two of my co workers have presented at HackMiami on flaws people implement in their oauth implementations. The talk summary is below "OAuth is one of the most popular authorization frameworks in use today. All major platforms such as Google, Facebook, Box etc support it and you are probably thinking of implementing...
Security Innovation has published a very extensive guide to IOS hacking that's worth checking out. Here's the table of contents 1. Setting Up iOS Pentest Lab.................. 5 1.1 Get an iOS Device...................5 1.2 Jailbreaking an iOS Device.................. 7 1.3 Installing Required Software and Utilities .................. 10 2. Acquiring iOS Binaries.................. 13 3....
A video for a talk I gave at LASCON last year made it online that some folks may find interesting. I rarely give public talks, but felt this information would have been useful to learn earlier in my career. Basically it goes through problems I've had to deal with building out appsec...
In 2010 I wrote an article about a flaw Google discovered, and published working exploit code when no fix or mitigation existed. This allowed attackers to immediately start using the flaw to hack Google's own users (in this case, the world). Since then Google has announced a new program 'Project Zero' which...
I've been busy this past year which has resulted in almost no updates to this site. Consider this one of many rants/posts of my experience/s in the industry during this time. This post covers a topic I think many people implement poorly, which is security training targeting developers. How most people implement...
Last week I was fortunate enough to be invited to a Yahoo event discussing bug bounty programs where all the organizers of these bounties were discussing their experiences. I attended this conference because years earlier I was involved in creating PayPal's bug bounty program and wanted to ask a panel of people...
Google published today that yet another CA has been caught generating certs for Google's domains. This problem is likely occuring on a much larger scale and seems to be detected by chance. Some have suggested crawling the internet and starting a DB, and while this may detect some issues it's limited for...
The Web Application Security Consortium (WASC) is pleased to announce the Static Analysis Technologies Evaluation Criteria. The goal of the SATEC project is to create a vendor-neutral set of criteria to help guide application security professionals during the process of acquiring a static code analysis technology that is intended to be used...
I've added a new poll to the WASC linkedin group that a few of you may be interested in. Specifically asking how people rank the importance of vulnerabilities. Poll Link http://www.linkedin.com/groups/How-do-you-rank-importance-83336.S.202840840
I've worked in the security field in various roles (script kiddie, security researcher, incident response, application security engineer, security consultant, strategy, etc..) and thought I'd share a few points to those of you starting out in the security industry. Things are worse than you expect The reality is that companies, even large...
UPDATE: One of the authors has posted two responses including an apology (accepted). I was taught in grade school that if you plan on writing something, never plagiarize. If you want to republish portions of existing content ensure you properly quote/reference them, and never represent this content as your own original work....
A couple of people had asked me what are some things that you can do prior to attending hacker cons such as Blackhat and Defcon. Kurt Cobain said it best "Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not after you'. Here's a short list (albeit not complete as I don't plan to...
Ray "Vanhalen" Kelly has written a post describing the security mechanisms used by Google+, as well as compares them to facebook. In particular he reviews each HTTP protection header and provides a good explanation of the purpose of each protection. Link: https://www.barracudanetworks.com/blogs/labsblog?bid=1743
Anant Shrivastava has posted a whitepaper providing a rundown of application fingerprinting methodologies, as well as comparisons of various tools such as W3af, BlindElephant, and Wapplyzer. "This Paper discusses about a relatively nascent field of Web Application finger printing, how automated web application fingerprinting is performed in the current scenarios, what are...
