NOTE: In 2020, a new talk will substantially improve this one to include an interesting third app and better explain the other ones. In late 2019, I had the privilege of giving a talk and an interview at SEC-T and DeepSec about “Chinese Police and CloudPets”. Basically a summary of highlights from 3 different pentest …
Part 1: Intro Part 2: Translating APKs Part 3: What is SSL? [ MSTG‑NETWORK‑1 ] The OWASP Mobile Application Security Verification Standard classifies the flaw explained in this blog post, under section V5: Network Communication Requirements, as follows: MSTG‑NETWORK‑2: The TLS settings are in line with current best practices, or as close as possible if …
Previous blog posts you might have missed and maybe you would like to read first for background: Part 1: Intro Part 2: Translating APKs The OWASP Mobile Application Security Verification Standard classifies the flaw explained in this blog post, under section V5: Network Communication Requirements, as follows: MSTG-NETWORK-1: Data is encrypted on the network using …
If you missed Hacking Mandated Apps – Part 1: Intro please start there for background 🙂 Translating APKs in beautiful exotic languages As explained in the intro, the team did not get access to the sources of the app. We had to first retrieve the APK from a Korean APK download service, decompile the APK and then …
NOTE: This was all coordinated work with human rights activists, vulnerabilities were reported, findings public, and talk (below) given! 🙂 Is monitoring your children something your country’s government asks you to do? Do you feel you need the government’s help to parent your child, technologically? What if I told you there is a country that forced its …
In case someone is interested, I had the pleasure of giving a Webinar for eLearnSecurity on Tuesday this week: Webinar Title: “XXE Exposed” Summary: Brief coverage of Web Service Types, SQLi and XSS against Web Services to then talk about XXE and XEE attacks and mitigation.Heavily inspired on the “Practical Web Defense” (PWD) style of pwnage + …
UPDATE 04/09/2013: Added link to AppSec EU video UPDATE 26/08/2013: Added Plug-n-Hack support link. OWASP AppSec EU 2013 and HackPra AllStars were both a blast this week: I would like to use this opportunity to let you know that: OWASP OWTF is always actively looking for contributors, bug reports / ideas. The slides for the …
Pentesting like a Grandmaster materials – BSides London 2013 UPDATE: 2013-07-28 – Added link to BSides London talk interview NOTE: Will update the post as soon as video is available only slides and demos for now 🙂 BSides London 2013 was a blast as previous years, I received a lot of good feedback during the …
At Brucon 2012 I had the privilege to present and demo VSA, the Virtual Scripted Attacker, a tool I had been working on with a great team of very talented people for a number of months. The talk was only 5 minutes long (a Lightning talk) so the presentation is brief. VSA is the first …
Here are a few links if you want to download the materials from the OWASP OWTF BruCon 2012 workshop that happened last week in Ghent, Belgium: – The slides are now online in slideshare – The demos, code and slides PDF can be downloaded from either of these: The OWTF Project Github page The BruCon …
