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Offensive Defense

Renovate – Keeping Your Updates Secure?

Renovate is an OSS CLI/bot that updates your software dependencies automatically. It is usually integrated into the CI/CD process and runs on a schedule. It will create a Pull Request / Merge Request (PR/MR) to your repository with dependency updates. It can optionally auto-merge them. If you host it for several repositories or an organization, it […]

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Harvesting GitLab Pipeline Secrets

TLDR: Scan GitLab job logs for credentials using https://github.com/CompassSecurity/pipeleak Many organizations use (self-hosted) GitLab instances to manage their source code and a lot of infrastructure is managed in code (IaC), thus these configurations must be source-controlled as well, putting a lot of responsibility on the source code platform in use. Often deployments are automated using CI/CD […]

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Introducing Conkeyscan – Confluence Keyword Scanner

TL;DR Release of Conkeyscan – A Confluence Keyword/Secret Scanner, which is tailored towards pentesters. Secrets Everywhere Many companies, especially larger ones, need to store knowledge in a centralized way. A wiki is the usual choice for this. One product that is frequently used for this purpose is Confluence from Atlassian. Similar to how sensitive data […]

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