A few months ago, our CTO and hacker-in-chief, Jake Reynolds, bought a glucometer online along with all the necessary stuff to make it work. He thought it would make for an interesting project, as researching this device and its related infrastructure could help improve security in a worthwhile field: health / medical devices. During a...Read More

TLDR; We are introducing Armory, a tool that adds a database backend to dozens of popular external and discovery tools. This allows you to run the tools directly from Armory, automatically ingest the results back into the database and use the new data to supply targets for other tools. Why? Over the past few years...Read More

Everyone who works in or is tasked with hiring for the InfoSec industry understands that one of the biggest challenges is acquiring and keeping talent. There is a deficit of good people, and that includes senior executives.  In the case of CISOs, the average tenure (according to industry research) is 24 to 48 months, with...Read More

Overview During a recent internal penetration test, the need arose to exploit a Java two-stage deserialization vulnerability. This post will walk through how to twist a Nessus plugin, meant to test only for the existence of an RCE vulnerability, into a weaponized exploit that can be utilized to attain a reverse shell on your own...Read More

Introduction When performing an application assessment one of the areas within an app I pay particular attention to is any ability to define custom templates. By this I mean functionality that extends the ability to generate custom, dynamic, report, email, and document structures to application users. This functionality can often be exploited because of how...Read More

In the 11+ years Depth has been in business we’ve had the opportunity to see some less than stellar work as far as assessment services go. Our clients often send us assessment reports they’ve received from other security firms. Sometimes they want us to check remediation status on a single item. Other times they aren’t...Read More

Introduction Many times while conducting a pentest, I need to script something up to make my life easier or to quickly test an attack idea or vector. Recently I came across an interesting command injection vector on a web application sitting on a client’s internet-facing estate. There was a page, running in Java, that allowed...Read More

Traditionally, closed circuit tv (CCTV) cameras and digital video recorders (DVRs) have been stand-alone, self-contained systems.  If the ability to access these systems remotely was required it was most commonly achieved by opening a port on a firewall and allowing access from the Internet to the DVR or camera directly.  Although effective, that method of...Read More

During a recent external penetration test, one of the many servers listening on the default HTTP port 80 caught my eye. The web server threw a HTTP Basic Authentication login prompt immediately upon viewing it, which was unique amongst this particular target network. Some time was spent trying to fingerprint the device and nmap did...Read More

Recently, I was working on a web application assessment that acted like a feature filled version of the Damn Vulnerable Web App. That meant there was a lot of XSS of course and a heavy handful of SQL injection vectors. This isn’t a post on how terrible the application was but the interesting way they...Read More