2017-12-18 | Fox IT’s MitM learnings, Math as Code, and Network pivoting techniques

Monday, December 18

TOP STORY

• Lessons learned from a Man-in-the-Middle attack. Fox IT published their IR plan and timeline of a MitM attack from September. Lessons learned and recommendations included. Don’t always ignore the regular “background noise on the internet”.

HACKTIVITY

• Cross-origin resource sharing misconfig | steal user information [33 upvotes] - $1,000 bounty for this report to SEMRush from @bughunterboy.

• X-XSS-Protection -> Misconfiguration [4 upvotes] - no bounty for this report to the U.S. Department of Defense

You can see all the latest and greatest disclosures and bounties on www.hackerone.com/hacktivity

OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING

• Invoke-PSImage - Embed PowerShell payloads in the pixels of images and generate oneliners to execute

• Math as Code: Cheat sheet for mathematical notation in code form

• Network pivoting techniques by Bit Rot

• The nutty math that really shows how quickly bitcoin has grown and BTC futures are now on the CME

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