I recently got in contact with
Intel AMT
for the first time. Surely I had heard about it, knew it was “dangerous”, it was
kind of exploitable and had to be deactivated. But I hadn’t actually seen it
myself. Well, now I have, and I simply love it and you will probably, too (and
don’t forget: love and hate are very very close to each other 😉 )
The following blogpost will be a set of features and instructions on how to own
a device with an unconfigured copy of Intel AMT without using any complicated
hacks or the famous magic!
The Three Billion Dollar App – Some Notes on My Upcoming Troopers Talk
This is a guest post from Vladimir Wolstencroft from our friends of
aura information security
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Mobile messaging applications have been occupying people’s attention and it seems to be all the latest news. Perhaps I should have called my presentation the 19 Billion dollar app but at the time of writing and research I thought the proposed 3 Billion dollar amount for SnapChat was a little ludicrous, who could have known that would have been just a drop in the ocean.
Continue reading Continue readingA Short Teaser on My New IPv6 Testing Framework
This is a guest post from Antonios Atlasis
Hi,
my name is Antonios and I am an independent IT Security Researcher from Greece. One of my latest “hobbies” is IPv6 and its potential insecurities so, please let me talk to you about my latest experience on this.
This week, I had the opportunity to work together with the ERNW guys at their premises. They had built an IPv6 lab that included several commercial IPv6 security devices (firewalls, IDS/IPS and some high-end switches) and they kindly offered their lab to me to play with (thank you guys 🙂 – I always liked …expensive toys). The goal of this co-operation was two-fold: First, to test my new (not yet released) IPv6 pen-testing tool and secondly, to try to find out any IPv6-related security or operational issues on these devices (after all, they all claim that they are “IPv6-Ready”, right?).
Continue reading Continue readingFresh Meat From the Coding Front
Within the last months I had some time to work on my code and today I’m releasing some of that: a new version of dizzy as well as two new loki modules.
New version of dizzy:
Download version 0.8.2 here.
USB target support
Dizzy is able to use neighbor travis’ facedancer to emulate a client device. Two fuzzing modes are available for USB descriptor fuzzing and USB endpoint fuzzing.
Here is an example cmd to start usb configuration descriptor fuzzing:
Continue reading Continue readingAnalyzing a CVE-2013-3346/CVE-2013-5065 Exploit with peepdf
This is a guest post from Jose Miguel Esparza (@EternalTodo)
There are already some good blog posts talking about this exploit, but I think this is a really good example to show how peepdf works and what you can learn if you attend the workshop “Squeezing Exploit Kits and PDF Exploits” at Troopers14. The mentioned exploit was using the Adobe Reader ToolButton Use-After-Free vulnerability to execute code in the victim’s machine and then the Windows privilege escalation 0day to bypass the Adobe sandbox and execute a new payload without restrictions.
Continue reading Continue readingPreliminary Agenda for Troopers 2014 Telco Sec Day
Given we’ve received a number of inquiries as for the agenda of this year’s TelcoSecDay here’s a first preliminary agenda. To get an idea of the event’s character you might have a look at the agenda of the 2012 edition or the 2013 edition. Pls note that there might be changes/additions to the following outline as we’re currently discussing potential contributions with two European operators. Here we go, for today:
9:00: Opening Remarks & Introduction
9:15: Ravi Borgaonkor – Evolution of SIM Card Security
10:15: Break
10:45: Adrian Dabrowski
11:45: Collin Mulliner – PatchDroid – Third Party Security Patches for Android
12:30: Lunch
13:45: Philippe Langlois
14:45: Break
15:15: Haya Shulman – The Illusion of Challenge-Response Authentication
16:00: Christian Sielaff & Daniel Hauenstein – Breaking Network Monitoring Tools
Used in Telco Space
16:30: Closing Remarks
19:00: Joint dinner (hosted by ERNW) in Heidelberg Altstadt for those interested
and/or staying for the main conference
Configuring IPv6 Snooping and DHCPv6 Guard on Cisco IOS
Hi everyone,
Some of you may already know (the ones who are following Enno on Twitter) that Enno and I had our lab day in preparation for the IPv6 Security Summit at Troopers. We had a brand new and shiny Cat4948E as our lab device to do some testing of the current generation of Cisco’s IPv6 First Hop Security (FHS) mechanisms. The Catalyst was running the latest image available (15.1(2)SG3).
In this small blog post, we will take a look at the configuration and behavior of IPv6 Snooping and DHCPv6 Guard. So let’s start with IPv6 Snooping:
Continue reading Continue readingLTE@ShmooCon, a Summary
Hey guys,
as some of you may have noticed, just recently at ShmooCon we gave our talk “LTE
vs. Darwin” (Slides
here).
There we presented some results of our research in 4G telco network security.
Some of those originate from our research contribution to
ASMONIA, but we expanded the scope and also took a look at the
air interface. Both the air interface and the backend links & protocols must be
secured appropriately; otherwise communication may be eavesdropped or sensitive
information may be compromised. In the following we want to provide an overview
of LTE main components and potential attack vectors.
ShmooCon 2014
Last weekend, from 17 to 19 January, ShmooCon was held in Washington, DC. A number of different topics was covered in great talks and we want to give you a short overview of the conference. In the following our favorite talks are briefly summarized.
Privacy Online: What Now?
Ian Goldberg, one of the designers of the
OTR Protocol, gave the
keynote on the first day. His talk was quite interesting and he presented some
really nice approaches, one of those being an attack against PGP. He described
the attack as follows: an attacker could copy a key server by downloading all
the stored keys. If this is done it is possible to create new key pairs with
exactly the same settings as the keys downloaded. The third step is to create
all the signing links between the keys as they exist on the real key server.
Finally, the attacker uploads these new keys including the signing links to the
original key server.
Now, in case Alice wants to retrieve the public key of Bob, Alice would find two
keys with seemingly identical properties. If choosing the wrong key for
encryption the message will be decipherable by the attacker and in case of MitM
situation be accessed. Furthermore, if Alice then signs the “mirror key”, the
cloned keys and the original would merge, resulting in further problems.
This was just one consideration discussed in Goldberg’s talk. For the full
content, watch the recording, available soon on ShmooCon page.
XSS in SAP Netweaver
We just got credits for a flaw we found in SAP Netweaver. The issue is a reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). It can be triggered in the administrative interface for the Internet Communication Manager (ICM) and Web Dispatcher. This means that the targets for this XSS will definitely be users with administrative privileges. This makes it especially juicy for an attacker.
SAP rated the vulnerability with CVSS and a Base Score of 4.3 having a Base
Vector of AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. Which again opens the discussion on how
to rate the impact of XSS by using CVSS. CVSS
states that XSS
“should be scored with no impact to confidentiality or availability, and
partial impact to integrity“, which is clearly arguable. Especially when
thinking of the impact on confidentiality. As you might know by now, we tried to
tackle the problem of rating vulnerabilities ourselves with the
ERNW Rapid Rating System
(ERRS) and it was not an easy task. 😉 However, SAP states that this is a
correction with high priority, so you should apply the patches as soon as
possible.