A post on how to trick browsers to work as a gateway to internal web servers and IoT devices, the concepts behind and how to easily exploit DNS rebinding using the Singularity of Origin framework.
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The article discusses the very basics to keep systems ready for analysis of lateral movement. We present some guidelines in form of a cheat sheet and a tool (Readinizer) that you can run, to ensure that everything is set up as in the guidelines provided.
During internal assessments in Windows environments, we use BloodHound more and more to gather a comprehensive view of the permissions granted to the different Active Directory objects. In this post, we’ll show an advanced usage of this tool by using our additional queries.
When you add a new computer, it must first join the domain. If you use its future main user to do it, they’ll become the owner and be able to hijack the computer to become a local administrator in four easy steps.
As a defender, you want to find and patch attack paths in your Active Directory environment. One cannot easily spot issues by looking at the Active Directory Users and Computers console, GPOs, etc. but here comes BLOODHOUND.
SharePoint is a very popular browser-based collaboration and content management platform. Due to its high complexity, proprietary technology and confusing terminology it is often perceived as a black-box that IT and security professionals do not feel very comfortable with. These days, web security topics are well understood by many security professionals, penetration testers and vendors. But what […]
Opening up an internal SharePoint farm to the Internet in order to share resources with external parties might seem a good idea, because it helps avoiding expensive infrastructure changes. However, in terms of security, this is not recommended because it does not sufficiently protect internal resources from external threats. The protection of internal resources hinges […]
What is a Hack-Lab? Compass Security provides a monthly playful occasion for the security analysts to get-together and try to hack new devices, dive into current technologies and share their skills with their fellows. This also includes the improvement of internal tools, the research of newly identified publicly known attacks, and security analysis of hardware […]
What is a Hack-Lab? Compass Security provides a monthly playful occasion for the security analysts to get-together and try to hack new devices, dive into current technologies and share their skills with their fellows. This also includes the improvement of internal tools, the research of newly identified publicly known attacks, and security analysis of hardware […]
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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