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DON’T PANIC – Drupalgeddon SQL Injection Vulnerability

On October 15th 2014, the security team at Drupal announced that all Drupal 7 web sites were vulnerable to SQL Injection attacks. A German security firm, SektionEins, discovered the flaw, advising: “A malicious user can inject arbitrary SQL queries. And thereby control the complete Drupal site. This leads to code execution as well… can be […]

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Disingenuous POODLE: Browsers Falling on SSL 3.0

Yesterday Bodo Möller of Google, published a blog detailing a design vulnerability of SSL 3.0 [RFC5246] which allows cyber attackers to calculate the plaintext content of secure connections. This means that supposedly encrypted traffic between clients and servers can be intercepted. Attackers may also then be able to steal cookies, potentially allowing control over a […]

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OpenVPN Externally Shellshocked

Two days ago Fredrik Strömberg reported that OpenVPN, under certain configurations, made servers externally vulnerable to the Shellshock bug. The configuration problem stems from a number of options that call custom commands at different tunnel session stages. Upon calling many of these commands, environmental variables are set, with clients controlling some of them. The command “auth-user-pass-verify” is […]

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Shellshock: Treatment Underway

It appears that Red Hat assurances regarding updates released thus far to fix bash vulnerabilities have unleashed an Lernaean Hydra effect, spawning and spurring the discovery of several more bugs. Exploit Mechanics and Attack Vectors To recap, the bash bug, now around 22 years old dating back to version 1.13, allows attackers to interact with […]

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Bashing Linux Security – The Shellshock Exploit

Bashing Linux Security – The Shellshock Exploit On Wednesday the world awoke to a substantial vulnerability in the Bourne again shell, otherwise known as bash.  Bash is a UNIX like shell which was created in 1980.  It is now a far cry from the simple terminal based command interpreter it used to be, having grown […]

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PACK AND PIPAL – A COMPARISON

PACK AND PIPAL – A COMPARISON During testing we frequently come across passwords and in most cases, though not all, they are encrypted.  Like in the real world, we will attempt to decrypt these passwords using password cracking tools.  There are many options for password cracking tools but we have recently done some analysis on […]

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Drupal and WordPress Denial of Service

Drupal and WordPress frameworks are vulnerable to a denial of service condition within the XML-RPC service. Details of the issue can be found here on the official sites for Drupal and WordPress. Basically the attack works by sending an XML-RPC call to the remote site with an initially small XML document. This element of the […]

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Day Two OWASP AppSec EU

So after a busy day at my graduation, I had the opportunity to fly out for day two of OWASP AppSec EU. An opportunity I took, naturally. Having been to a number of OWASP chapter meetings but never an AppSec conference, I was very much looking forward to it. I am happy to report that, […]

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Security Testing – A Buyer’s Guide

Know what you’re asking for and what to expect People often ask for penetration testing without knowing what it really means or does. The word has become ubiquitous within the field of information security and means very different things to individuals and organisations. Even security professionals are at fault here, interchanging words such as pen […]

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PCI DSS V3 in a Nutshell

The following blog post outlining PCI DSS V3 in a nutshell has been submitted by two students from Glasgow Caledonian University. This is part of our approach to work closely with local universities to provide vital hands on experience for undergraduates. What is PCI DSS and why is it required? As many of you will be aware […]

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