Research, demonstrations, and popcorn
Recently a “researcher” has gone on a marketing blitz trying to convince the world he found a vulnerability that doesn’t exist. This vulnerability has been dubbed ‘RID Exploitation.’ According to this researcher, the RID is the relative identifier…
Stephen Hawking passed away today at the age of 76. Many thought it would come much earlier in his life. Many thought it would never happen because he was a super genius from another dimension (sarcasm). Regardless, the…
I have spent a great deal of time researching the best way to avoid security exposure via source control. This has become a hot-button issue right now due to the Deloitte hack. As it turns out, one of…
First, let me say that I am a self-contradicting person. I am a collector of knowledge. I seek information that is hard to find or I shouldn’t know. The reason is simple, with knowledge comes power… the power…
Anyone that is even semi-competent online knows how difficult it can be to manage passwords. Most people have 15 accounts at a bare minimum online. Managing passwords for many accounts becomes difficult. Generally, people take one of three…
On Tuesday March 7th, 2016, WikiLeaks posted a trove of stolen files and data sourced from inside the Central Intelligence Agency. This information was posted to the WikiLeaks website with a press release claiming the need for transparency…
Arris is one of the single largest providers of cable internet modems in the United States and around the world. I was playing around with this a bit tonight while bored and came up with a simple way to cause…
This is a quick post on enabling authentication on your MongoDB instance, but the first thing you should do is bring the MongoDB inside your network if possible. If it is not exposed externally, there is a far lower…
I have written a simple multithreaded application used to Shodan exports for open MongoDB instances and report on ransom demands. This tool is on GitHub and is released for free use. The only caveat is that you may…
After doing some research into MongoDB for the company I currently work for, I started looking around at some servers online. What I found was amazing. Database servers almost never need to be exposed on the perimeter of a network, but…
