2019-03-18 | Jobert’s Unescape Room XSS game, How to get started pentesting, and Security Voices Podcast

Monday, March 18

TOP STORY

• Katarina Borodina wrote a thing on how to get started pentesting, good overview to share with friends looking to break into the biz #longlivetheredteam. And on the pentester motif, check out PowerHub by Adrian Vollmer: web application which aids a pentester in transferring files, in particular code which may get flagged by endpoint protection.

HACKTIVITY HIGHLIGHTS

• [Grab Android/iOS] Insecure deeplink leads to sensitive information disclosure [133 upvotes] - $7,500 bounty for this report to Grabtaxi Holdings by @bagipro

• Exfiltrate and mutate repository and project data through injected templated service [462 upvotes] - $11,000 bounty for this report to GitLab by @jobert

TWEET OF THE DAY

• Hackers, I've built a small game that helps improve your XSS skills! It dynamically generates (increasingly more difficult) levels for you to exploit XSS vulnerabilities. No level is the same. Let me know what you think. Happy hacking! - @jobertabma

OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING

• Security Voices Podcast: Jack and Dave talk security with other smart people like Wendy Nather, Zane Lackey, and Carey Nachenberg

• CVE-2019-5418 - File Content Disclosure in Action View, time to write a Burp plugin

• Sector:443’s Python for Reverse Engineering #1: ELF Binaries

• Politico looks at Beto O'Rourke history of stances on cyber issues

• Googling strangers, professor’s game with students highlights importance of OpSec in every day life

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