Wednesday, November 15
TOP STORY
Skeleton in the MS Office closet: CVE-2017-11882, research by Embedi. Scott has YARA sigs to find old binaries missing security features like this.
HACKTIVITY
[IRCCloud Android] Theft of arbitrary files leading to token leakage [1 upvote] - $500 bounty for this report to IRCCloud by @bagipro.
Program profile metrics endpoint contains mean time to triage, even when turned off [19 upvotes] - $500 bounty for this report to HackerOne by @flashdisk.
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TWEET OF THE DAY
Found an interesting vulnerability today: encapsulating an existing username in quotes during sign up would generate a JWT token for username without quotes instead of with quotes. Gotta love a clean account takeover! - @jobertabma
OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING
Cyber attacks will cost $6T globally in 2021: Blackberry
SEC: Public companies could soon face new guidelines for reporting breaches
FALLCHILL: North Korean Remote Administration Tool
Worth sharing again: ngalongc/bug-bounty-reference. Bookmark that git.
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