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Black Hat USA 2015 – part 1

Black Hat USA is the most famous IT security conference in the world that every year congregate thousands of security experts and interested to Las Vegas. For its 18th year the conference took place in the glamorous Mandalay Bay Conference Center in Las Vegas. And as every year, two security analysts of Compass Security have […]

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Compass Security at CYBSEC15 in Yverdon-les-Bains

As in past years, Compass Security will participate in the upcoming CyberSec Conference in Yverdon-les-Bains (formerly Application Security Forum – Western Switzerland). This year, we will contribute in two events: First, Antoine Neuenschwander and Alexandre Herzog will conduct a day long training session on Tuesday, November 3rd. Participants will be able to exercise their skills […]

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Aftermath of the Netgear Advisory Disclosure

Update – 13.10.2015: Netgear published a new firmware (version 1.1.0.32) which fixes the reported authentication bypass. My most recently appointed colleague, Daniel Haake, described in the previous blog article “Authentication Bypass in Netgear WNR1000v4 Router” how he found an authentication bypass in commonly used Netgear firmwares. Due to the rediscovery of the issue and its […]

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Authentication Bypass in Netgear WNR1000v4 Router

Three months ago I tested the web interface of the Netgear WNR1000v4 router for some typical vulnerabilities. When playing around with the application by forcefully calling different URLs in contexts it was not meant for, I got some strange, but interesting behaviour. I accessed different URLs and then switched back to the root web directory […]

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