Kali Linux Trademarks

It’s been a year since we’ve released Kali Linux, and we’re happy to see it succeed. Kali has surpassed BackTrack Linux in many ways and the community is responding accordingly. Between the improved development cycle, more attentive support, and larger community, Kali Linux has reached new heights of popularity. This popularity however, does not come without its own issues. One of the big problems we’ve been facing in the past year is rampant violations of our Kali Linux Trademarks.

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Generating Kali Raspberry Pi Images

“Kali Linux Raspberry Pi Image Updated!” That was supposed to be the “tweet” we would release, telling everyone our new Kali Linux Raspberry Pi image was supposedly better than our old one. We often update our followers with news like this on twitter, and this tweet would be no different. However, this time, we thought it would be interesting to tell you about the mechanics of updates like these, and shed some light on how these “news items” come about. This post will also give us the opportunity to describe the process of running our custom Kali Linux ARM build scripts, by way of a story. If you couldn’t care less about this story, and just want the updated image – head straight to our Kali Linux Custom Image page!

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Exploit Database Hosted on GitHub

We have recently completed some renovations on the Exploit Database backend systems and moved the EDB exploit repository to Github. This means that it’s now easier than ever to copy, clone or fork the whole repository. The previous SVN CVS has been retired.

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Bug Bounty Program Insights

With the nature of our business, we at Offensive Security take our system security very seriously and we appreciate the benefits of having “the crowd” scrutinize our internet presence for bugs. For this reason, we recently started our own Bug Bounty Program, which provides incentives for researchers to inform us of possible vulnerabilities in our sites in exchange for cash rewards.

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NDPROXY Local SYSTEM exploit CVE-2013-5065

In the past few days there has been some online chatter about a new Windows XP/2k3 privilege escalation, well documented by FireEye. Googling around, we came across a Twitter message which contained a link to a Chinese vulnerability analysis and PoC.

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Penetration Test Report 2013

We are proud to release a new, updated, sample penetration test report. This report accurately reflects the types of assessments we conduct for our clients. It incorporates changes we have made over the last two years based on customer feedback, as well as reflecting many of the types of attacks we have found to be effective in multiple customer environments.

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Kali Linux on a Galaxy Note 10.1

Here at Offsec, we love playing with hardware. Be it something like the Onity Hotel Door Unlocker, a Teensy USB HID attack payload, or RFID hacks – if it’s shiny, we like it. While we were in the last stages of developing Kali Linux, we made the effort to to get Kali working on some ARM hardware, such as the Samsung Chromebook, Odroid U2, Raspberry Pi and RK3306 devices such as the SS808, and then contributed these to the community as “Unofficial Trusted Images”, together with the Official Kali Linux downloads.

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Kali Linux Has Been Released!

Seven years of developing BackTrack Linux has taught us a significant amount about what we, and the security community, think a penetration testing distribution should look like. We’ve taken all of this knowledge and experience and implemented it in our “next generation” penetration testing distribution.

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Advanced Windows Exploitation Vienna

The Advanced Windows Exploitation (AWE) class in Vienna is coming up quick! This will be our first time teaching the class outside of the US and is the only public planned AWE this year outside of BlackHat Vegas. We have secured a beautiful facility on the 24th floor of the Millennium Tower on the Vienna waterfront, and still have a couple of seats left open. So if you are interested in coming now is the time to take action!

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BackTrack Reborn – Kali Linux

It’s been 7 years since we released our first version of BackTrack Linux, and the ride so far has been exhilarating. When the dev team started talking about BackTrack 6 (almost a year ago), each of us put on paper a few “wish list goals” that we each wanted implemented in our “next version”. It soon became evident to us that with our 4 year old development architecture, we would not be able to achieve all these new goals without a massive restructure, so, we massively restructured and “Kali” was born. We’ve also posted a Kali Linux teaser on the BackTrack Linux site – and that’s all we’ll say for now…

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Yahoo DOM XSS 0day – Not fixed yet!

After discussing the recent Yahoo DOM XSS with Shahin from Abysssec.com, it was discovered that Yahoo’s fix is not effective as one would hope. According to Yahoo, this issue was fixed at 6:20 PM EST, Jan 7th, 2013. With little modification to the original proof of concept code written by Abysssec, it is still possible to exploit the original Yahoo vulnerability, allowing an attacker to completely take over a victim’s account. The victim has to be lured to click a link which contains malicious XSS code for the attack to succeed. This can demonstrated by the video we have created just this morning (Jan 8th, 2013) after Shahin kindly shared proof of concept code with us.

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Fun with AIX Shellcode and Metasploit

In one of our recent pentests, we discovered an 0day for a custom C application server running on the AIX Operating System. After debugging the crash, we discovered that the bug could lead to remote code execution and since we don’t deal very often with AIX exploitation, we decided to write an exploit for it. The first steps were accomplished pretty quickly and we successfully diverted the execution flow by jumping to a controlled buffer. At this point, we thought we could easily generate some shellcode from MSF and enjoy our remote shell.

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