Security Sift

Overview I had been wanting to take the Cracking The Perimeter (CTP) course for some time but my schedule was pretty hectic. I finally forced myself to start it at the beginning of the new year and I’m really glad I did. As promised, here is my review… Prerequisites Offsec states the following: Many pre-requisites are required, such as good familiarity with a Ollydbg, and a general mastery of offensive network security techniques. Definitely sound advice….

Introduction Most organizations and are deploying new applications and technologies at a high rate and without a means to adequately assess them prior to implementation, it’s difficult to accurately gauge your organization’s risk. No matter what the size or industry, it’s imperative that an organization has a standardized and repeatable process for assessing the security of the IT solutions it implements.  My goal with today’s post is to provide some recommendations on…

Introduction I’ve been wanting to write about the Teensy and its application in security testing or some time now. It’s extremely useful for executing scripts on a target machine without the need for human-to-keyboard interaction. It can be used to bypass auto-run, AV scanning, and encryption policies commonly targeting removable media devices in an enterprise environment. I’ve used it in my security testing to run recon/enumeration scripts, execute reverse shells, exploit local…

Overview Recently I took the Offensive Security Penetration Testing with Backtrack (PWB) course, passed the exam, and achieved the OSCP certification.  I learned a ton and earned my most rewarding cert yet.  There are several great reviews of the course but I figured I’d provide my perspective.  Motivations In my current job I’m lucky enough to touch on all aspects of information security from policy and process development to application…

Introduction It’s been my observation that when it comes to XSS prevention, angle brackets associated with HTML and script tags (<>) often get the majority of the attention. While eliminating script tags as a potential XSS vector is a great start, just as important, and seemingly most forgotten when it comes to input validation and output encoding, are double (“) and single (‘) quotes. Whether they are completely ignored or…