Microsoft Word Document Upload to Stored XSS: A Case Study

May 09, 2018, Esteban Rodriguez, Consultant, Coalfire Labs, Coalfire

Anytime I see a file upload form during an application test, my attention is piqued. In a best-case scenario, I can upload a reverse shell in a scripting language available on the webserver. If the application is running in PHP or ASP for example, it becomes quite easy. If I can’t get a backdoor uploaded, I will attempt to try to upload an HTML page to get my own client-side javascript uploaded for XSS attacks.

Cloud Security Governance - Optimizing the Business Benefits of Security in the Cloud

May 02, 2018, Michael Addo-Yobo, Managing Principal, Cyber Risk Advisory, Coalfire

Enterprises are increasingly pursuing the business advantages of migrating technology platforms and services into the cloud environment leveraging one or more of the three main cloud service areas – Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). These advantages include but are not limited to rapid information system deployment, significantly reduced operating costs, massive economies of scale, processing speed, and agility. However, subscription to these services often imply security and compliance challenges for enterprises who are often unprepared to resolve them.

Cooking Up Shells with Chef

April 30, 2018, Ryan Wendel, Consultant, Coalfire Labs

I was able to compromise a Chef server on one of my recent engagements. Owning a Chef server means having the keys to the castle. I wasn’t quite sure how to go about using this tool. I’m familiar with Puppet as I’ve spent the majority of my career on the systems side. Having never run into Chef, I needed to put a little time into figuring out the fastest way to use a Chef infrastructure to shell a bunch of sensitive hosts. Here is how I went about it.

RSA 2018 recap: GDPR, Increasing Visibility and Transparency of Cloud Security

April 27, 2018, Marshall England, Sr. Marketing Director, Technology & Cloud

RSA 2018 is in the books! The event welcomed 42,000 attendees to San Francisco, including cybersecurity professionals, vendors, media, and analysts. The themes of visibility and transparency repeatedly came up in discussions and presentations as organizations grapple with ever-increasing data flows across multiple technology platforms and cloud ecosystems. Another big topic of interest was the European Union’s upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and how it will affect organizations and their data.

PCI Compliance: Early-TLS and Cloud Service Providers

April 23, 2018, Dan Stocker, Practice Director, Payments, Cloud & Tech

Organizations tracking their PCI compliance are likely aware of the impending June 30, 2018 deadline to disable SSLv3 and early-TLS. This blog post examines the special case of Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and how their customers should proceed to achieve compliance.