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Excuse me, where is the best site of the city? After the DOM, just turn right!

During a SharePoint 2013 penetration test I performed last November, I noticed that a dynamically constructed JavaScript constantly fetched content or redirected me to the requested pages. Using a variation of the double-slash trick we exploited in the past, I misused this functionality in order to perform a DOM based open redirection attack. Every SharePoint […]

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Wie stiehlt man KMU-Geheimnisse?

Ein Hintegrundartikel zur SRF Einstein Sendung vom Donnerstag, 3. September 2015 um 21:00 Uhr zum Thema “Cybercrime, wie sicher ist das Know-how der Schweiz”. (Trailer online) In diesem Artikel zeigen wir Ihnen die Vorgehensweisen von Angreifern auf, die versuchen unerlaubten Zugriff auf fremde Systeme zu erlangen — beispielsweise im Netzwerk eines KMUs. Schematisch sind diese Vorgehensweisen […]

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IP-Box – Why a 4 digit passcode is still a bad idea

Up to the iPhone 4, 4 digit passcodes could be brute-forced within a short amount of time – maximum 30 minutes, depending on the passcode. With the iPhone 4s, the Boot ROM vulnerability required to upload a custom RAM disk has been closed thus rendering newer phones immune to this attack. This is where the IP-Box […]

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Hacklab Q2 – NoSQL mischief

At our reoccurring Hacklab days, we at Compass get the chance to hack some stuff of our own choice together for a day. For example playing with GSM in an attempt to send fake SMS or eavesdrop on voice data, comparing Encase capabilities to Unix command line forensic tools or cloning door entry badges in […]

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SAML Burp Extension

SAML [3] is a standard, which is widely used to deploy Single Sign-On and federation identity solutions. SAML is based on the XML technology, using XML Signatures and X.509 certificates. Manual testing for SAML vulnerabilities is time consuming and error prone. For example, because a SAML message is only valid for a predefined period of […]

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Netzwerktraffic und APT Analyse

Compass Security wird vermehrt von Kunden bzgl. Verdacht auf Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) kontaktiert. Unter die Bezeichnung “APT” fallen komplexe, zielgerichtete und äusserst effektive Angriffe auf kritische und zuweilen gar unternehmenswichtige Computersysteme bzw. deren gespeicherte Informationen. Die Analyse von potentiell infiltrierten Netzen und Systemen gestaltet sich jedoch als enorm aufwändig, da Unmengen von Datensätzen und […]

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Presentation about Windows Phone 8.1

Earlier this month, my colleague Cyrill Bannwart and I held two Compass Security Beer Talk presentations in Bern and Jona about Windows Phone 8.1 security. The slides are now online and cover: Our (unsuccessful) black box attempts to break out from a Windows perspective A review of the implemented security features in Windows Phone 8.1 from a mobile perspective Our findings […]

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XSLT Security and Server Side Request Forgery

Nowadays, a growing list of XSLT processors exist with the purpose of transforming XML documents to other formats such as PDF, HTML or SVG. To this end such processors typically offer a powerful set of functionalities – which, from a security point of view, can potentially pose severe risks. Within this post, we highlight some […]

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Exchange 2013 – Spot the Security Features

Microsoft Exchange 2013, the newest product in the Exchange series, is more and more enrolled in enterprise environments. With the new and enhanced features, for example the integration of SharePoint or Lync, the new Exchange is a well-designed piece of software which in parallel addresses different security concerns. Like Lync 2013 and the whole Microsoft […]

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IPv6 Secure Neighbor Discovery (SeND)

Finally, IPv6 is arriving… Since the IPv6 Launch Day in 2012, the number of native IPv6 users have been sextupled. In Switzerland, the IPv6 adoption rate is around 10%, which is quite impressive. In this blog post, the successor of ARP, namely the Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP), is introduced and its security features described. IPv4 […]

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