Huge Signed PE File, (Thu, May 26th)

Xavier&#;x26;#;39;s diary entry “A &#;x26;#;39;Zip Bomb&#;x26;#;39; to Bypass Security Controls &#;x26; Sandboxes” reminded me of something. I&#;x26;#;39;ve seen huge PE files like Xavier saw, but I&#;x26;#;39;ve also seen a couple of huge PE files that are signed. I will explain here how you can reduce their size.

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Using NMAP to Assess Hosts in Load Balanced Clusters, (Wed, May 25th)

Recently I&#;x26;#;39;ve been seeing more clients using DNS load balancing (GSLB) to load-balance traditional web, API and other services – it&#;x26;#;39;s an easy way to load balance between datacenters for instance. What I&#;x26;#;39;ve noticed lately, especially with servers that use cloud “as a service” offerings, is that:

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ctx Python Library Updated with “Extra” Features, (Tue, May 24th)

Python is a prevalent programming language and has a vast collection of packages on Python Package Index (pypi.org) that allow developers to build their code conveniently. Many of these packages can be installed and updated by the well-known “pip install” command. However, many developers may take the updating and installation process for granted and may neglect to check what might have changed in the packages. I was recently alerted to such a particular post on Reddit [1], [2], and I decided to dive deeper to investigate the issue.

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Attacker Scanning for jQuery-File-Upload, (Mon, May 23rd)

Recently, I noticed some requests hitting our honeypots that appear to attempt to exploit jQuery-File-Upload. jQuery-File-Upload is a popular tool for implementing file uploads. It has been around for a while and has had a few vulnerabilities in the past, but nothing recent as far as I can tell [1]. Allowing users to upload files securely is tricky. And jQuery-File-Upload is tempting faith by allowing uploads into the document root. The walk-through by Kristian Bremberg explaining past jQuery-File-Upload vulnerabilities is an excellent summary of all the things that can go wrong [2].

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