2019-05-13 | Sentry Blind SSRF, Script kiddie term origination, and Do you know how many websites you run?

Monday, May 13

TOP STORY

• The term script kiddie probably originated around 1994, but the first public record is from 1996. How do we know this? LiveOverflow did the research for us! Also, there’s more hacker history from Emily Crose and and Emma Best including freedom of information act requests from the US Government.

HACKTIVITY HIGHLIGHTS

• Remote Code Execution in epoch via epmd [143 upvotes] - $10,000 bounty for this report to Aeternity by @ecneladis.

• XSS via Direct Message deeplinks [85 upvotes] - $2,940 bounty for this report to Twitter by @0xsobky.

• H1514 [beerify[dot]shopifycloud[dot]com] GraphQL discloses internal beer consumption [36 upvotes] - $802.20 bounty for this report to Shopify by @emitrani

TWEET OF THE DAY

• Every time I see this, my heart beats faster #ssrf - @fransrosen

OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING

• To all our readers in Enterprises, do you know how many websites you run? Tell Colonel Paul Haverstick you understand his pain.

• Frans’ Akamai WAF bypass XSS in HTML-context when no character-filtering exists to trick it

• Sentry Blind SSRF shared by @ITSecurityGuard

• l0pht.com turned 25 yesterday. “L0pht was a homebrew 486 33MHz running a Slackware distribution of Linux 1.0 on a 28.8K dialup line to TIAC.NET.”

• This is well done: StackOverflow language popularity through the years

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