An interesting look on Apples decision to stop scanning user's content on iCloud: “Scanning every user’s privately stored iCloud data would create new threat vectors for data thieves to find and exploit," Neuenschwander wrote. "It would also inject the potential for a slippery slope of unintended consequences. Scanning for one type of content, for instance, opens the door for bulk surveillance and could create a desire to search other encrypted messaging systems across content types.” https://lnkd.in/eEfXTjwh Sounds like someone did a thorough threat model here and decided it would be better to approach this problem in another way. Still, it will be interesting to see what happens when Apple's approach starts to conflict with national jurisdiction.
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CISA and FBI taking XSS vulnerabilities into focus: https://lnkd.in/d9yRHyzF "However, cross-site scripting vulnerabilities are preventable and should not be present in software products. [...] To further prevent these vulnerabilities, technical leaders should: * Review their written threat models, * Ensure software validates input for both structure and meaning, * Use modern web frameworks that offer easy-to-use functions for output encoding to ensure proper escaping or quoting [...] * And implement aggressive adversarial product testing to ensure the quality and security of their code throughout the development lifecycle."
Secure by Design Alert: Eliminating Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities | CISA
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Elbsides is getting closer. Not only happy to visit Hamburg again, I am also very much looking forward to give a talk on challenges in vulnerability management for developers together with Álvaro Martínez: https://lnkd.in/d3P6_NRm If you are at the conference and want to talk appsec, feel free to say hello!
2024
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Highly recommended BSides in Munich, organized by an awesome team! I will be there as well.
Announcing our next ticket dates: 2nd batch of PRESENTATION DAY tickets Price: free Tickets available: SEPTEMBER 8, 2024 at 8PM CET WORKSHOP Tickets Price: 15€ Tickets available: SEPTEMBER 15 at 8PM CET See the workshops under: https://lnkd.in/dpzQiwvF Tickets are limited and are first-come, first served. Watch here for the ticket links. Or, watch our website: https://lnkd.in/dBDENHME
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In case you missed it, Phrack #71 is out: https://lnkd.in/eU8tAa7H I am a bit nostalgic about it because for me reading Aleph One's article about smashing the stack started a lot of deep diving into assembly code and reverse engineering research when I was younger and now I hardly have time for that. However, it's great to see that the Phrack community is still alive and active!
Current issue : # 71 | Release date : 2024-08-19 | Editor : Phrack Staff
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Nice writeup on 9 Apache HTTP Server vulnerabilities: https://lnkd.in/dCNfRryH "The entire Httpd service relies on hundreds of small modules working together to handle a client’s HTTP request. Among the 136 modules listed by the official documentation, about half are either enabled by default or frequently used by websites! [...] Our starting point is straightforward — the modules do not fully understand each other, yet they are required to cooperate. Each module might be implemented by different people, with the code undergoing years of iterations, refactors, and modifications. Do they really still know what they are doing? Even if they understand their own duty, what about other modules’ implementation details? Without any good development standards or guidelines, there must be several gaps that we can exploit!"
[EN] Confusion Attacks: Exploiting Hidden Semantic Ambiguity in Apache HTTP Server!
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Should staged roll-outs be a security topic? #crowdstrike
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