Android Kiosk Browser Lock down Security Testing Checklist

 

What is Kiosk Browser Lockdown?

In simple words, if you want to restrict the usability of the device that you are giving to your employee/customer's hand, you can use kiosk browser lockdown facility to make that device single purpose used.

Generally, all finance companies use that at their branches when the customer comes to their branch and any kind of help and representative approaches them with a tablet which has that bank/company's application running on it. Now that device may land into many hands such as a company's all employees and sometimes clients too. So to restrict that device's all functionalities such as settings, other apps on home screen etc.., a company uses kiosk lockdown which can be paid or free software. 

Working with BurpSuite MobileAssistant Tool

Recently on Friday, April 28, 2017, burpsuite has released its new tool dubbed as mobile assistant. Mainly this is released for two purposes. It is designed to change the system wide proxy setting and to bypass ssl certificate pinning. Currently this is available for iOS device 8 and later only. You can found more detail on the official blog referenced below: Here I am going for an in-depth tutorial starting from the setting up the mobile assistant to using it.

CVE-2016-7786 - Sophos Cyberoam UTM - Privilege Escalation

In this small article I am going to share one of my zero day that I found a while back ago in Sophos Cyberoam UTM device. A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Sophos Cyberoam UTM CR25iNG 10.6.3 MR-5. This issue affects an unknown function of the file Licenseinformation.jsp of the component Access Restriction. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted are confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Network Security VAPT Checklist

Hi Guys, there are very few technical network security assessment checklist. So I thought to share my own on this. Have a look and enjoy. Lets talk about the scope first. If you are given a 1000 machines to perform VAPT, then here is your scope. Single machine can have 65535 ports open. Any single port can deploy any service software from the world. For example FTP can be run on smartftp, pureftpd etc.. Any single FTP software version (for example pureftpd 1.0.22) can have number of vulnerabilities available. So if you multiply all of these, then it is impossible for any auditor to go ahead and probe all ports manually and find services manually. Even if he/she is able to do it, it is impossible to check all vulnerabilities that are pertaining to a single port of a single machine. Hence we have to rely on scanners such as nexpose, nessus, openvas, coreimpact etc. Here are some quick tools and test cases that one can perform on commonly found ports in the network pentest.

Android Application Backup Vulnerabiility Testing

You must be already knowing about android application backup process. Beauty of this vulnerability is it works on non-rooted devices too sometimes. The vulnerability lies within the AndroidManifest.xml file.

Today we are going to test DIVA (Damn Insecure Vulnerable Application) against this vulnerability. First I had diva-beta.apk file. I unzip that using below command: