Teenager Finds Vulnerability With PayPal Website

A 17-year-old German student contends PayPal has denied him a reward for finding a vulnerability in its website.

Robert Kugler said he notified PayPal of the vulnerability on May 19. He said he was informed by email that because he is under 18 years old, he did not qualify for its Bug Bounty Program. He will turn 18 next March.

PayPal, which is owned by auction site eBay, outlines the terms and conditions for its Bug Bounty Program on its website, but does not appear to have an age guideline. PayPal officials did not have an immediate comment.

Many companies such as Google and Facebook have reward programs. The programs are intended to create an incentive for researchers to privately report issues and allow vendors to release fixes before hackers take advantage of flaws.

Facebook pays a minimum of $500 for qualifying bugs, while Google pays from $100 up to $20,000 depending on the severity of the issue. Neither has an age restriction listed on their websites. Microsoft does not pay for security vulnerability information, but instead publicly acknowledges the work. PayPal does not list what it will pay a researcher for a bug.

Kugler is listed as a contributor in a Microsoft list from April of security researchers. He said he received rewards for finding vulnerabilities in the past. Mozilla paid him $1,500 for finding a problem in the Firefox browser last year and $3,000 earlier this year for another bug.

PayPal requires that those reporting bugs have a verified PayPal account. Kugler said he asked PayPal that any bounty be paid into his parent’s account.

At minimum, Kugler would like PayPal to acknowledge his finding and send him some documentation “that I can use in a job application,” he wrote via email. So far, he hasn’t received anything.

The details of the vulnerability, a cross-site scripting flaw (XSS), is posted on Full Disclosure section Seclists.org, a forum for disclosing security vulnerabilities.

An XSS attack occurs when a script drawn from another Web site is allowed to run but should not. The type of flaw can be used to steal information or potentially cause other malicious code to run.

For Security Researchers – PayPal

Source: www.pcworld.com

Romanian Jailed For ATM Skimming Scheme

A Romanian man serving a five-year jail sentence in Romania for his involvement in an ATM skimming scheme, has developed a device designed to protect ATMs from such attacks.

33-year-old Valentin Boanta who is being detained in a prison from Vaslui, Romania, after he was convicted on charges of bank card fraud in 2009, developed what he calls the SRS (Secure Revolving System) which changes the way ATM machines read bank cards to prevent the operation of skimming devices that criminals hide inside ATMs.
“When I got caught I became happy. This liberation opened the way to working for the good side,” Boanta said.

“Crime was like a drug for me. After I was caught, I was happy I escaped from this adrenaline addiction,” Boanta said. Boanta began working on SRS during his trial. SRS, Boanta says, can be installed into any ATM.
ATM skimmers work by installing a second, concealed card reader over the one that’s built into the ATM. When an unsuspecting bank customer inserts a card into the slot, the card’s magnetic stripe first runs past the read head of the skimmer, allowing it to copy all of the card’s data. The transaction then proceeds as normal and the ATM returns the card to the customer, who is none the wiser.

“I’ve seen many different ATMs, they have ageing designs so they are prone to vulnerability, they are a very weak side of the banking industry,” said Boanta in a workshop. “Every ATM can be penetrated through a skimming crime. My security solution, SRS, makes an ATM unbreachable.”

Romania has a deep well of technical expertise stemming from the time of communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, who backed computer research and technical education. Romanian hackers stole about $1 billion from U.S. accounts in 2012, according to the U.S. embassy in Bucharest

Source: thehackernews.com

Backtrack Kali Tutorial – Exploit MS08-067 Vulnerability using Metasploit

This tutorial is for demonstration purposes only – Please use this knowledge responsibly

This video will show you how to create a reverse SSH connection to a server/workstation

This exploit is taking advantage of vulnerability MS08-067 using Metasploit on Kali.
This is a Kali VM attacking a Microsoft 2008 server (this will also work on any machine without the patch)

The moral of this is to update your system

http://www.kali.org

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958644

Caintech.co.uk – Here comes Kali

Affected Software

Operating System

Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4

Windows XP Service Pack 2

Windows XP Service Pack 3

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2

Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition

Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition Service Pack 2

Windows Server 2003 with SP1 for Itanium-based Systems

Windows Server 2003 with SP2 for Itanium-based Systems

Windows Vista and Windows Vista Service Pack 1

Windows Vista x64 Edition and Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 1

Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems

Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems

Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems

IE10, Chrome & Firefox Java exploited

During March Patch Tuesday of 2013, Microsoft released seven new security bulletins, with four rated as critical, and others as Important. Most interesting one was MS13-027, which is rated as “important” because the attack requires physical access to the vulnerable machine.

This flaw allows anyone with a USB thumb drive loaded with the payload to bypass security controls and access a vulnerable system even if AutoRun is disabled, and the screen is locked. Flaw exposes your Windows PCs to major risk. If you remember Stuxnet, worm was injected to Iran’s nuclear program system using USB thumb drive.

Windows typically discovers USB devices when they are inserted or when they change power sources (if they switch from plugged-in power to being powered off of the USB connection itself).

To exploit the vulnerability an attacker could add a maliciously formatted USB device to the system. When the Windows USB device drivers enumerate the device, parsing a specially crafted descriptor, the attacker could cause the system to execute malicious code in the context of the Windows kernel.

Because the vulnerability is triggered during device enumeration, no user intervention is required. In fact, the vulnerability can be triggered when the workstation is locked or when no user is logged in, making this an unauthenticated elevation of privilege for an attacker with casual physical access to the machine.

Microsoft admits the flaw could “open additional avenues of exploitation that do not require direct physical access to the system,” once the USB based exploit is successful.

The vulnerabilities addressed by Microsoft do not include those exploited by security researchers at the recent Pwn2Own hacking competition at the CanSecWest Conference in Vancouver.

Galaxy Note II Security Floor And How To Exploit It

A security flaw on the Galaxy Note II with Android 4.1.2 that allows hackers to briefly bypass the phone’s lock screen without needing a password.

By hitting “emergency call” then “emergency contacts” then holding the home button, the main home screen becomes visible for around a second just enough time to load an app, before reverting back to the lock screen.

Not all apps will open in this manner, a demo video shows that Google Play does not respond. Reportedly, Eden contacted Samsung roughly five days ago but has yet to hear back. He said that he has not tested any other Samsung devices to see if they are also affected.

Steps to follow:

1. Lock the device with a “secure” pattern, PIN, or password.
2. Activate the screen.
3. Press “Emergency Call”.
4. Press the “ICE” button on the bottom left.
5. Hold down the physical home key for a few seconds and then release.
6. The phone’s home screen will be displayed – briefly.
7. While the home screen is displayed, click on an app or a widget.
8. The app or widget will launch.
9. If the widget is “direct dial” the phone will start ringing.

Using this method it could also be possible to load up email or SMS apps for long enough to get an overview of sensitive messages.

U.K. Internet service providers ordered to block three filesharing websites

The UK High Court has ordered BSkyB, BT, Virgin Media and three other UK broadband providers to block access to three music and movie file-sharing websites Kickass Torrents, H33T and Fenopy.

Judge Richard Arnold said  that these websites infringed 10 music companies copyrights on an industrial scale.

He granted an order to 10 record labels including EMI, Sony and Universal against six UK internet service providers requiring them to take measures to block or at least impede access by their customers to these three file-sharing websites.

“The orders are necessary and appropriate to protect the intellectual property rights of the claimants and other copyright owners.“ Judge said. The ISPs have been given 15 working days to block access to the sites. Each ISP will decide how to warn customers and subsequently attempt to curb alleged illegal file sharing activity.

Verizon decided to send a series of warnings to Internet users and after the fifth the alleged copyright infringer’s Internet connection will be slowed significantly for up to three days.

Source: The Hacker News

Lets see what Anonymous has to say in the coming weeks!

BlackBerry Enterprise Server Vulnerable to TIFF Image Based Exploit

If you are a BlackBerry Enterprise Network user, here is something you need to be careful about. BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) users have been warned that an image-based exploit could allow hackers to access and execute code on the servers used to support corporate users of BlackBerry smartphones.

The flaw that been rated as high severity and actual vulnerability in BlackBerry Enterprise Servers resulted from how the server processes image files.

Scenario to Exploit Vulnerability: A malicious person writes a special code and then embeds it in a TIFF image file. The person then convinces a Blackberry smart phone user (whose phone is connected to a corporate BES) to view the TIFF file.

As soon as the image file loads on the phone, the code runs on the Blackberry Enterprise server and either opens up a back door in the network or causes the network to crash altogether as instructed in the basic code.

“RIM is not aware of any attacks on or specifically targeting BlackBerry Enterprise Server customers, and recommends that affected customers update to the latest available software version to be fully protected from these vulnerabilities.” Blackberry said.

The exploit uses a TIFF image containing malicious code, and the dangerous image can either be linked to an email or attached directly to it. Depending on the privileges available to the configured BlackBerry Enterprise Server service account, the attacker might also be able to extend access to other non-segmented parts of the network.

BlackBerry Enterprise Server Express version 5.0.4 and earlier for Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino and BlackBerry Enterprise Server version 5.0.4 and earlier for Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino and Novell Groupwise are affected only.

For the full RIM statement, issue and resolution visit: Knowledge Base Article BSRT-2013-003

My Top Hacking Tools Of All Time

Here is a list of my favorite old & new school information security & hacking tools: 

Burpsuite

Burp Suite is an integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications. Its various tools work seamlessly together to support the entire testing process, from initial mapping and analysis of an applications attack surface, through to finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities.

Cain & Abel

Cain & Abel is a password-cracking juggernaut that runs on Windows. This amazing software, created by Mass-imiliano Montoro, features more than a dozen different useful capabilities for cracking passwords and various encryption keys. For starters, Cain can dump and reveal various encrypted or hashed passwords cached on a local Windows machine, including the standard Windows LANMAN and NTLM password representations, as well as application-specific passwords for Microsoft’s Outlook, Internet Explorer and MSN Explorer. Organizations can use Cain to test individual passwords and the effectiveness of their password policies. Cain & Abel can crack passwords for over a dozen different OS and protocol types. Just for the Windows operating system alone, Cain handles the LANMAN and NTLM password representations in the SAM database, as well as Windows network authentication protocols such as LANMAN Challenge and Response, NTLMv1, NTLMv2 and Micro-soft Kerberos. Its integrated sniffer monitors the LAN, grabbing challenge-and- response packets and cracking passwords using a built-in dictionary of more than 306,000 words. Beyond Windows passwords, Cain also cracks various Cisco passwords, routing proto-col hashes, VNC passwords, RADIUS Shared Secrets, Win95/98 Password List (PWL) files, and Micro-soft SQL Server 2000 and MySQL passwords. It can also crack IKE pre-shared keys in order to penetrate IPSec VPNs that use IKE to exchange and to update their cryptography keys. Beyond password cracking, Cain includes a wireless LAN discovery tool, a hash calculator and an ARP cache-poisoning tool (which can be used to redirect traffic on a LAN so that an attacker can more easily sniff in a switched environment)–all bound together in a sophisticated GUI.

DNSiff

DNSiff is a collection of tools for network auditing and penetration testing. dsniff, filesnarf, mailsnarf, msgsnarf, urlsnarf, and webspy passively monitor a network for interesting data (passwords, e-mail, files, etc.).

Ettercap

Ettercap is a comprehensive suite for man in the middle attacks. It features sniffing of live connections, content filtering on the fly and many other interesting tricks. It supports active and passive dissection of many protocols and includes many features for network and host analysis. Ettercap is a multipurpose sniffer/interceptor/logger for switched LAN.

Fast-track 

Fast-track is an open source security tool aimed at helping penetration testers conduct highly advanced and time consuming attacks in a more methodical and automated way. Fast-Track is now included in Backtrack version 3 onwards under the Backtrack –> Penetration category. In this talk given at Shmoocon 2009, the author of Fast-Track Dave Kennedy runs us through a primer on the tool and demonstrates 7 different scenarios in which he breaks into systems using the Fast-Track tool. These scenarios include automated SQL injection, MSSQL brute forcing, Query string pwnage, Exploit rewrite, Destroying the Client and Autopwnage.

Fport

fport identifies all open TCP/IP and UDP ports and maps them to the owning application.

GFI LANguard

GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner (N.S.S.) automatically scans your entire network, IP by IP, and plays the devil’s advocate alerting you to security vulnerabilities.

Hping

hping is a command-line oriented TCP/IP packet assembler/analyser. The interface is inspired to the ping(8) unix command, but hping isn’t only able to send ICMP echo requests. It supports TCP, UDP, ICMP and RAW-IP protocols, has a traceroute mode, the ability to send files between a covered channel, and many other features. Kind of like the ping program (but with a lot of extensions).

IP Filter

IP Filter is a software package that can be used to provide network address translation (NAT) or firewall services.

John the Ripper

John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavours of Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix systems, supported out of the box are Windows LM hashes, plus lots of other hashes and ciphers in the community-enhanced version.

Kismet

Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and (with appropriate hardware) can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, 802.11g, and 802.11n traffic. Kismet also supports plugins which allow sniffing other media such as DECT.  It separates and identifies different wireless networks in the area.

Metasploit Community Edition

Metasploit Community Edition simplifies network discovery and vulnerability verification for specific exploits, increasing the effectiveness of vulnerability scanners. This helps prioritize remediation and eliminate false positives, providing true security risk intelligence. Metasploit provides useful information to people who perform penetration testing, IDS signature development, and exploit research. This project was created to provide information on exploit techniques and to create a useful resource for exploit developers and security professionals. The tools and information on this site are provided for legal security research and testing purposes only.

Ncat

Ncat is a feature-packed networking utility which reads and writes data across networks from the command line. Ncat was written for the Nmap Project as a much-improved reimplementation of the venerable Netcat. It uses both TCP and UDP for communication and is designed to be a reliable back-end tool to instantly provide network connectivity to other applications and users. Ncat will not only work with IPv4 and IPv6 but provides the user with a virtually limitless number of potential uses.

Nessus

The Nessus Project aims to provide to the internet community a free, powerful, up-to-date and easy to use remote security scanner for Linux, BSD, Solaris, and other flavours of Unix.

Netcat

Netcat has been dubbed the network Swiss army knife. It is a simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol

NetFilter

NetFilter and iptables are the framework inside the Linux 2.4.x kernel which enables packet filtering, network address translation (NAT) and other packet mangling.

NexPose Community edition 

The Nexpose Community Edition is a free, single-user vulnerability management solution. Nexpose Community Edition is powered by the same scan engine as Nexpose Enterprise and offers many of the same features.

Nikto2

Nikto is an Open Source (GPL) web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including over 6400 potentially dangerous files/CGIs, checks for outdated versions of over 1200 servers, and version specific problems on over 270 servers. It also checks for server configuration items such as the presence of multiple index files, HTTP server options, and will attempt to identify installed web servers and software.

Nmap

Nmap (Network Mapper) is a free and open source (license) utility for network discovery and security auditing. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics.

OpenPGP

OpenPGP is a non-proprietary protocol for encrypting email using public key cryptography. It is based on PGP as originally developed by Phil Zimmermann.

OpenSSH

OpenSSH is a FREE version of the SSH protocol suite of network connectivity tools, which encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other network-level attacks.

Paros Proxy

Many custom Web apps are vulnerable to SQL injection, cross-site scripting, session cloning and other attacks. Attackers often rely on a specialized Web proxy tool designed to manipulate Web applications to reveal and exploit such flaws–and so must you. A Web app manipulation proxy sits between the attacker’s browser and the target Web server. All HTTP and HTTPS requests and responses are channelled through the proxy, which gives the attacker a window to view and alter all of the information passed in the browsing session, including any variables passed by the Web app in cookies, hidden form elements and URLs. Paros Proxy, which runs on Windows or Linux (with a Java Run-time Environment), is the best of these proxies, chock-full of Web app assessment widgets that make it a versatile and powerful hacking tool:

1. Recorder. Paros goes be-yond similar tools by maintaining a thorough history of all HTTP requests and responses. Later, the attacker can review all of the actions, with every page, variable and other element re-corded for detailed analysis.
2. Web spider. An automated Web spider surfs every linked page on a target site, storing its HTML locally for later inspection, and harvests URLs, cookies and hidden form elements for later attack.
3. Hash calculator. Attackers sometimes have a hunch about the encoding or hashing of specific data elements that are returned. Using the Paros calculator, a hacker can quickly and easily test such hunches. Paros Proxy has a GUI tool for calculating the SHA-1, MD5 and Base64 value of any arbitrary text typed in by its user or pasted from an application.
4. SSL-buster. While most other Web app attack and assessment proxies handle server-side SSL certificates, Paros can also probe apps that require client-side SSL certificates.

Paros also includes automated vulnerability scanning and detection capabilities for some of the most common Web application attacks, including SQL injection and cross-site scripting. Paros even scans for unsafe Web content, such as unsigned ActiveX controls and browser ex-ploits sent by the target Web server.

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OpenBSD Packet Filter

SAINT

SAINT network vulnerability assessment scanner detects vulnerabilities in your network’s security before they can be exploited.

Snort

Snort is an open source network intrusion detection system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks.

Sqlmap

sqlmap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It comes with a powerful detection engine, many niche features for the ultimate penetration tester and a broad range of switches lasting from database fingerprinting, over data fetching from the database, to accessing the underlying file system and executing commands on the operating system via out-of-band connections.

TCPdump

TCPdump is the most used network sniffer/analyser for UNIX.

TCPTrace

analyses the dump file format generated by TCPdump and other applications.

THC-Hydra

A very fast network logon cracker which support many different services.

TripWire

Tripwire is a tool that can be used for data and program integrity assurance.

W3af

w3af is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework. The project’s goal is to create a framework to find and exploit web application vulnerabilities that is easy to use and extend.

Webscarab

WebScarabhas a large amount of functionality, and as such can be quite intimidating to the new user. But, for the simplest case, intercepting and modifying requests and responses between a browser and HTTP/S server, there is not a lot that needs to be learned.

Wellenreiter

A Passive WLAN detector. While numerous tools detect wireless LANs, one of the very best is Wellenreiter. Traditional war driving tools, such as the popular NetStumbler, send a barrage of probe request packets to find wireless access points. But, NetStumbler can’t locate an access point that’s configured to ignore probe requests from clients that don’t know the WLAN SSID. Max Moser’s Wellenreiter can. Wellenreiter is completely passive; instead of sending probe requests, it puts a wireless card into so-called “rfmon mode,” so that it sniffs wireless traffic, capturing all data sent, including the entire wireless frames of all packets with their associated SSIDs, displaying the discovered access points in its GUI. It then listens for ARP or DHCP traffic to determine the MAC and IP addresses of each discovered wireless device. Wellenreiter can store wireless packets in a tcpdump or Wireshark packet capture file for later detailed analysis. An attacker or wireless penetration tester can fire up Wellenreiter, let the tool run passively for an hour or so, and return to find a nifty inventory of nearby wireless devices. It can also interface with GPS devices; storing the physical location of each war-driving computer when wireless LANs are detected. Wellenreiter runs on Linux and supports Prism2, Lucent and Cisco wireless cards.

Wikto

You need a solid Web server vulnerability scanner if you’re going to find flaws before attackers do. Internet-facing Web apps open enormous business opportunities–and dangerous holes for malicious and criminal hackers. In the last year, thousands of sites running vulnerable phpBB Web forum scripts, and countless others hosting the AWStats CGI script for gathering access statistics from log files, have fallen victim to attackers. Beyond those notable examples, vulnerabilities in various Web scripts are discovered on a regular basis. To help find such flaws in your network, turn to Wikto, an impressive Web server scanning tool. Written by Sensepost, a security services firm based in South Africa, Wikto builds on the popular command-line Nikto Web scanner Perl script with an easy-to-use Windows GUI and extended capabilities. Like Nikto, Wikto searches for thousands of flawed scripts, common server misconfigurations and unpatched systems. Wikto adds HTTP fingerprinting technology to identify Web server types based on their protocol behaviour’s, even if administrators purposely disguise Web server banner information to deceive attackers. For white hats, it’s a powerful inventory feature. What’s more, attackers are increasingly turning to well-crafted Google searches to look for vulnerable sites. Security researcher Johnny Long maintains the Google Hacking Database (GHDB) list of more than 1,000 Google searches that can locate vulnerable systems. Wikto can import the latest GHDB vulnerability list, and then query Google for such holes in your domain.

Winfingerprint

A Windows configuration harvester. Windows systems contain a treasure trove of sensitive configuration information that’s accessible in a variety of ways. Attackers and assessment teams typically extract as much information as possible from Windows systems to help refine and augment their vulnerability scans. Winfingerprint, written by Vacuum, is an invaluable tool for harvesting Windows configuration information, using a variety of mechanisms, including Windows domain access, Active Directory and Windows Manage-ment Instrumentation (WMI), Microsoft’s comprehensive framework for analysing system configurations. Winfingerprint pulls lists of users, groups and security settings from a single Windows machine or a network range. The tool also grabs information about the local hard drives of target machines, local system time and date, registry settings, and event logs. Rounding out its features, this handy tool includes a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) scanner, as well as a TCP and UDP port scanner, all accessible from a single GUI

Wireshark

Wireshark is a network protocol analyser. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network.

The 25 Most-used Passwords

How secure are your passwords? Hopefully they’re more clever than these top 25 most-popular (and therefore least secure) passwords.

SplashData, an online security management firm, compiled this list for 2012:

1. password
2. 123456
3. 12345678
4. qwerty
5. abc123
6. monkey
7. 1234567
8. letmein
9. trustno1
10. dragon
11. baseball
12. 111111
13. iloveyou
14. master
15. sunshine
16. ashley
17. bailey
18. passw0rd
19. shadow
20. 123123
21. 654321
22. superman
23. gazwsx
24. michael
25. football

Are any of your passwords on the list? If so, it’s time to upgrade to one with varying numbers, capitalization and figures. Separate words with spaces or underscores. For crying out loud, don’t use your pet’s or your spouse’s name or even you children’s names.

New version of (DIY) HTTP based botnet tool released

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Security researchers from Webroot, have spotted a new updated version of DIY (do it yourself) botnet kit Coded in Visual Basic Script 6.0, available for sale at selected underground communities. DIY is a very user-friendly tools allowing anyone an easy entry into the world of cybercrime, and securing their revenue streams thanks to the active advertisements of these tools across closed cybercrime friendly Web communities. The bot has a built-in pharming feature, a bit of an outdated approach for stealing accounting data compared to modern crimeware releases, but still highly effective on hosts where the user isn’t aware of how the process actually works.