So there is a wget vulnerability … big deal? Metasploit developer – Rapid7 has a page discussing the exploit Specifically: GNU Wget is a command-line utility designed to download files via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. Wget versions prior to 1.16 are vulnerable a symlink attack (CVE-2014-4877) when running in recursive mode with a FTP target. … Read more
This is a fix to a long outstanding remote code execution bug – post from Threatpost Dennis Fisher discusses the basics of this issue this is a bug from 2011 (sic) and could cause someone to access your older Cisco router pax-pentest.com has a list of the telnet Metasploit payloads Here are the relevant entries: … Read more
Wednesday evening we ran a bash script command against a lab computer which was designed to be vulnerable Downloaded a system .iso file from http://www.vulnhub.com It is from the Pentester Lab section https://twitter.com/PentesterLab/status/515079459284594688 then started the computer (now I had a test lab computer system) Then ran the above command on a Kali Linux machine … Read more
POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption.) is in the news these days, and the fix for it is the following: Internet Storm Center link and the important parts: Apache: Add -SSLv3 to the “SSLProtocol” line. It should already contain -SSLv2 unless you list specific protocols. nginx: list specific allowed protocols in the “ssl_protocols” line. … Read more
What is this BadUSB? Extremetech.com has a story and the Youtube video from BlackHat 2014(not Derbycon as in article) The controller can be hacked and code inserted inside the USB chips themselves. So we have to create good security policies and reduce the chance of plugging in USB devices that we do not know about. … Read more