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.
Over a year ago, when we first sat down and began on what would become Kali Linux, we realized that with all the major changes, we would also need to update our flagship course, Penetration Testing with BackTrack (PWB), to be inline with Kali Linux. With the release of Kali, we ensured that we mentioned the impact this would have on PWB and that an update to the course was in the works.
We are proud to announce that we will be teaching Penetration Testing with Kali Linux at Black Hat’s December event in Seattle Washington. This will be the second time we will be teaching this class live.
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.
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!
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…
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.
On a recent penetration test, we encountered an installation of CA ARCserve Backup on one of the target systems that piqued our interest. Like most “good” enterprise applications, ARCserve has processes that are running as SYSTEM so naturally, we went straight to work looking for vulnerabilities.
Join us for a mind-blowing experience in a city known for its dynamic history and contemporary design, Vienna, Austria. For the first time in Europe we are holding our most intense live training course, Advanced Windows Exploitation (AWE). Be prepared to be challenged beyond your limits!
On one of our engagements, we figured an Onity Hotel door unlocker would be useful to us. Inspired by the James bond type setup we saw on the Spiderlabs blog post, we thought we’de try to build a small, simple and “TSA friendly” version of the Onity key unlocker. Pro Tip: Connecting a 9v battery with the wrong polarity to an Arduino Mini Pro will make pretty sparks.
Continuing off from our last RFID Cloning with Proxmark3 post, we wanted to build a small, portable, stand-alone EM4x RFID tag stealer. We needed an easy way of storing multiple tag IDs whilst “rubbing elbows” with company personnel. The proxmark3 seemed liked an overkill and not particularly fast at reading em4x tags so we figured we’d try hooking up our RoboticsConnection RFID reader to a Teensy and see if we could make them play nicely together.
Our Proxmark 3 (and antennae) finally arrived, and we thought we’d take it for a spin. It’s a great little device for physical pentests, allowing us to capture, replay and clone certain RFID tags. We started off by reading the contents of the Proxmark wiki, to understand (more or less) what we are up against. This proved to be a vitally important step, and we are thankful we had the insight to RTFM a tad bit before.
In one of our recent engagements, we had the opportunity to test the physical security of an organization. This assessment presented an excellent scenario for a USB HID attack, where an attacker would stealthily sneak into a server room, and connect a malicious USB device to a server with logged on console, thus compromising it. From here, the “Peensy” (Penetration Testing Teensy?) was born.
Are you in Vegas for BlackHat and Defcon ? Are you desperately looking for Offensive Security schwag ? We are giving out Metasploit books, BackTrack Challenge coins and large sized BackTrack Decals in this years BlackHat and Defcon conferences. So, what exactly does one need to do to get these…
With the recent Absinthe Jailbreak which opens up firmware 5.1.1 to Cydia, we once again tried to get Metasploit running on these iBabies. After a bit of fiddling around with various ruby package versions, its seems like the following combination works well with the latest version of Metasploit 4.4.0-dev (as…
