During a recent web app engagement, I wanted to run some of the Burp Scanner automated checks, but I was confronted with several issues. First, this particular application did not respond kindly to manipulation of the session cookies. The application and its single...

While certainly not a new topic, there has been plenty of discussion recently around the goals of pen testing. Many believe that getting DA is the be-all and end-all of an engagement. Others think it might be a valid finding, but falls short of meeting the actual...

In the previous post we discussed some of the limitations of Net commands. Most notably, the output limitation (doesn't show all groups) and it doesn't allow for flexible searching. In this post we'll discuss the DS commands to get around these limitations. DSGet,...

I've had a number of cases where the Windows "net user", "net group", and "net localgroup" have failed me. I've had SQLMap fail to give the last line of "net user" output, I've had "net group /domain" not give me the full names (I still don't get how that failed!). On...

I use full disk encryption (FDE) on all my laptops and portable media. I like to have a very strong passphrase for these, one that is even stronger than that for my user accounts. Let's be realistic, very very few people are going to use a 60 character passphrase for...

I found a bug in one of my DirecTV devices in 2015 after I got DirecTV. DirecTV didn't have a bug bounty program at that time so I used it as a demo in my classes. When AT&T bought DirecTV it then fell under AT&T's bug bounty, which is awarded quarterly. I...

The age of internet connected toys is upon us. Increasingly, we are seeing children's toys connected to the internet, commonly through an app. I recently purchased a My Friend Cayla (http://www.myfriendcayla.com/) for uh…testing. I wanted to test the security of the...