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Hello Roger! A new way to spoof a caller id

Did Roger Federer call us for some IT-security advice or did Nicolas Heiniger and I find a new way to spoof a caller id? The Human Factor is, and remains, the biggest and most relevant threat to the security of every company. The latest statistics state that “only about 3% of the malware they run […]

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Write-up: Who’s your daddy?

At this years Insomni’hack there was a fun Recon / OSINT challenge with the name “Who’s your daddy?”. A login page was presented to the participant, who had to try to reset the password of the page owner. On the login page the user was able to: Login with username / password Insert a username […]

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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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Forensic Investigation Kurs in Bern

Die Teilnehmer lernen die Grundlagen der forensichen Untersuchungen anhand eines fiktiven Hacker-Angriffs. Dazu startet das Seminar mit einem Szenario, welches Schritt für Schritt aufgeklärt werden soll. Dabei werden verschiedene Übungen mit unterschiedlichen Technologien und Systemen gemacht. Diesen November führt Compass Security das erste Mal in Bern den Forensic Investigation Kurs durch. Sind Sie an Computer […]

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