Go-Spoof: A Tool for Cyber Deception
Go-Spoof brings an old tool to a new language. The Golang rewrite [of Portspoof] provides similar efficiency and all the same features of the previous tool but with easier setup and useability.
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Canary in the Code: Alert()-ing on XSS Exploits
I’ve been a web application pentester for a while now and over the years must have found hundreds of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.1 Cross-site scripting is a notoriously difficult problem […]
Burp Suite Extension: Copy For
If you’ve ever had to take a request from Burp and turn it into a command line, especially for jwt_tool.py, you know it can be painful—but no more! The “Copy For” extension is here to save valuable time.
Creating Burp Extensions: A Beginner’s Guide
In this video, Dave Blandford discusses a beginner’s guide to creating Burp Suite extensions. The session covers an overview of what Burp extensions are, how they can improve testing capabilities, and the tools and languages used in developing them.
Finding Access Control Vulnerabilities with Autorize
In the most recent revision of the OWASP Top 10, Broken Access Controls leapt from fifth to first.1 OWASP describes an access control as something that “enforces policy such that […]
Introducing SlackEnum: A User Enumeration Tool for Slack
Recently, as part of our ANTISOC Continuous Penetration Testing (CPT) service, I had an opportunity to investigate how attackers can leverage Slack in cyber-attacks, similar to how we frequently use […]
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop Hijacking (CSWSH) WebSockets
The WebSocket Protocol, standardized in 2011 with RFC 6455, enables full-duplex communication between clients and web servers over a single, persistent connection, resolving a longstanding limitation of HTTP that hindered […]
Revisiting Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR)
The new year has begun, and as a penetration tester at Black Hills Information Security, one thing really struck me as I reflected on 2023: a concerningly large number of […]
Testing TLS and Certificates
Pentest reports sometimes include bad information under a heading like, “Weak TLS Configuration” or “Insecure SSL Certificates.” This article will explain how TLS is supposed to work, common ways it […]