Introducing: SafeURL – A set of SSRF Protection Libraries

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At Include Security, we believe that a reactive approach to security can fall short when it’s not backed by proactive roots. We see new offensive tools for pen-testing and vulnerability analysis being created and released all the time. In regards to SSRF vulnerabilities, we saw an opportunity to release code for developers to assist in … Read more

Strengths and Weaknesses of LLVM’s SafeStack Buffer Overflow Protection

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Introduction In June 2015, a new memory corruption exploit mitigation named SafeStack was merged into the llvm development branch by Peter Collingbourne from Google and will be available with the upcoming 3.8 release. SafeStack was developed as part of the Code Pointer Integrity (CPI) project but is also available as stand-alone mitigation. We like to … Read more

Firmware dumping technique for an ARM Cortex-M0 SoC

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One of the first major goals when reversing a new piece of hardware is getting a copy of the firmware. Once you have access to the firmware, you can reverse engineer it by disassembling the machine code. Sometimes you can get access to the firmware without touching the hardware, by downloading a firmware update file … Read more

A light-weight forensic analysis of the AshleyMadison Hack

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———–[Intro] So Ashley Madison(AM) got hacked, it was first announced about a month ago and the attackers claimed they’d drop the full monty of user data if the AM website did not cease operations. The AM parent company Avid Life Media(ALM) did not cease business operations for the site and true to their word it … Read more

Reversing the Dropcam Part 3: Digging into complied Lua functionality

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Contribs from Nico Rodriguez, Kris Brosch, and Erik Cabetas In Part 1 & Part 2 of this RE blog series you saw how we reverse engineered the Dropcam and got access to the file system. In this final post of the series we’ll examine some of the binaries found on the file system and play … Read more