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ZERO DAILY

Hacking, AppSec, and Bug Bounty newsletter

2019-02-15 | Dirty sock, How Tinder becomes a weapon, and 188 database connection strings

Friday, February 15

TOP STORY

Good question posed by @marcusjcarey: As a cybersecurity pro, what’s your biggest day-to-day pain point?

TWEET OF THE DAY

SSRF at an endpoint looking for a valid YouTube url. http://127.0.0.1:80 doesn’t work but http://127.0.0.1:80?http://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ works - @rohk_infosec

OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING

Reddit serviced 2x the number of government data requests in 2018 as they reported in their transparency report
Well that’s confidence inspiring. Prosecutors have misplaced hard drives from a case against a CIA computer engineer accused of leaking government secrets
Bug bounty life: "Just found a database table that contains 188 database connection strings for other databases”
How Tinder becomes a weapon
From dirty cow to now dirty sock, Linux vulnerability lets attackers gain root
Fooled ya. AI writes convincing prose, could take #fakenews to new level

ABOUT ZERO DAILY

Zero Daily is a daily newsletter that highlights application security, bug bounty, and hacker focused topics. The content is curated with love by @luketucker and brought to you by HackerOne.

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We have not actually ever seen a true, in depth forensic analysis to see if [electronic voting] machinery has been compromised, AFAIK. Vendors have fought access fiercely in lawsuits in GA, WI, PA, etc

Susan Greenhalagh

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