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LifeLock’s Customer emails made Vulnerable

2018-07-26/0 Comments/in Hack/by Kellep Charles

Identity theft protection firm LifeLock may have actually exposed customers to additional attacks from ID thieves and phishers

OWASP Mutillidae II

2018-07-26/0 Comments/in Web Security/by hansb

OWASP Mutillidae II is a free, open source, deliberately vulnerable web-application providing a target for web-security enthusiast.

LifeLock’s Customer emails made Vulnerable

2018-07-26/0 Comments/in Hack/by Kellep Charles

Identity theft protection firm LifeLock may have actually exposed customers to additional attacks from ID thieves and phishers

OWASP Mutillidae II

2018-07-26/0 Comments/in Web Security/by hansb

OWASP Mutillidae II is a free, open source, deliberately vulnerable web-application providing a target for web-security enthusiast.

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LifeLock’s Customer emails made Vulnerable

2018-07-26/0 Comments/in Hack/by Kellep Charles

Per Krebs, “Identity theft protection firm LifeLock — a company that’s built a name for itself based on the promise of helping consumers protect their identities online — may have actually exposed customers to additional attacks from ID thieves and phishers”.

Here’s what we know so far:

LifeLock, an identity protection company, has put millions of customer emails at risk for phishing and identity theft attacks, thanks to a bug on its website.

The bug enabled customer email addresses to be harvested by simply changing one number in the URL of a web page used by customers to unsubscribe from LifeLock communications.

It’s important to note that this is not a breach, but it is a vulnerability to pay attention to, since ID thieves can use email addresses to steal other personal info.

How to protect your info:

Here are some tips to help you protect yourself:

Be skeptical of email communications urging you to take immediate action or claiming that they are privacy policy updates.

Do not click on any suspicious-looking links in those messages and instead forward any suspicious email to the company itself. Call the company directly to confirm whether any such messaging is actually from them.

Do not enter any personal info or credentials via links in emails. If you need to make updates, go directly to the company’s website to do so.

Check your credit report regularly to keep an eye on any unauthorized activity.

Consider locking your credit file to help prevent potentially fraudulent access.

Reference:

LifeLock Bug Exposed Millions of Customer Email Addresses – https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/lifelock/

OWASP Mutillidae II

2018-07-26/0 Comments/in Web Security/by hansb

OWASP Mutillidae II Web Pen-Test Practice Application

OWASP Mutillidae II is a free, open source, deliberately vulnerable web-application providing a target for web-security enthusiast. Mutillidae can be installed on Linux and Windows using LAMP, WAMP, and XAMMP. It is pre-installed on SamuraiWTF and OWASP BWA. The existing version can be updated on these platforms. With dozens of vulnerabilities and hints to help the user; this is an easy-to-use web hacking environment designed for labs, security enthusiast, classrooms, CTF, and vulnerability assessment tool targets. Mutillidae has been used in graduate security courses, corporate web sec training courses, and as an “assess the assessor” target for vulnerability assessment software.

Features

Has over 40 vulnerabilities and challenges. Contains at least one vulnerability for each of the OWASP Top Ten 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2017
Actually Vulnerable (User not asked to enter “magic” statement)
Mutillidae can be installed on Linux, Windows XP, and Windows 7 using XAMMP making it easy for users who do not want to install or administrate their own webserver. Mutillidae is confirmed to work on XAMPP, WAMP, and LAMP.
Installs easily by dropping project files into the “htdocs” folder of XAMPP.
Will attempt to detect if the MySQL database is available for the user
Preinstalled on Rapid7 Metasploitable 2, Samurai Web Testing Framework (WTF), and OWASP Broken Web Apps (BWA)
Contains 2 levels of hints to help users get started
Includes bubble-hints to help point out vulnerable locations
Bubble-hints automatically give more information as hint level incremented
System can be restored to default with single-click of “Setup” button
User can switch between secure and insecure modes
Secure and insecure source code for each page stored in the same PHP file for easy comparison
Provides data capture page and stores captured data in database and file
Allows SSL to be enforced in order to practice SSL stripping
Used in graduate security courses, in corporate web sec training courses, and as an “assess the assessor” target for vulnerability software
Mutillidae has been tested/attacked with Cenzic Hailstorm ARC, W3AF, SQLMAP, Samurai WTF, Backtrack, HP Web Inspect, Burp-Suite, NetSparker Community Edition, and other tools
Instructional Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/webpwnized
Updates tweeted to @webpwnized
Updated frequently
Project Whitepaper: http://www.giac.org/paper/gwapt/3387/introduction-owasp-mutillidae-ii-web-pen-test-training-environment/126917