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Offensive Defense

Disabling Viewstate’s MAC: why you deserve having now a broken ASP.NET web application

Lots of things happened since my first (and unique) blog post about ASP.NET Viewstate and its related weakness. This blog post will not yet disclose all the details or contain tools to exploit applications, but give some ideas why it’s really mandatory to both correct your web applications and install the ASP.NET patch. Back in […]

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APT Detection Engine based on Splunk

Compass Security is working on an APT Detection Engine based on Splunk within the Hacking-Lab environment. Hacking-Lab is a remote training lab for cyber specialists, used by more then 22’000 users world-wide, run by Security Competence GmbH. An advanced persistent threat (APT) is a network attack in which an unauthorized person gains access to a network […]

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BurpSentinel on Darknet

Compass Security is developing security tools on regular basis. I for myself created a plugin/extension for Burp Intercepting Proxy called BurpSentinel. It can makes some tedious manual testing more automated, and helps identifying security vulnerabilities in web applications like XSS weaknesses or SQL injections. Compared to fully automated scanners (like the one already integrated into Burp), it has […]

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