IoT Penetration Testing Part 1

IoT Penetration Testing is one of our favorite types of testing here at Brackish Security. This will be the first of a multi-part blog series on embedded device security (the “Internet of Things” or IoT). Our goal is to show how the Brackish security team approaches an IoT pentest, including detailed methodologies and examples.  IoT

What is Blind XSS?

You may have heard of Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) or Stored XSS, but what is Blind XSS? Unlike traditional XSS attacks, where the immediate impact is visible, Blind XSS vulnerabilities are typically triggered when the malicious input is viewed by a different user, often an administrator or a support person, at a later time

Android Studio – Mobile Application Penetration Testing #5

Welcome back to our series on Mobile Application Penetration Testing! In this post we will discuss Android Studio and Android Debug Bridge. If you’re new to this, you might want to go read from the beginning or check out the previous post. But not only will we discuss Android Studio and Android Debug Bridge, we

IIS Short File Name Enumeration

Microsoft IIS short file name enumeration is a technique used to discover the filenames and directories on a web server running IIS. This method exploits a feature in IIS related to how it handles file and directory names. This vulnerability is kind of the gift that keeps on giving. As of writing, it’s been around

Even More MobSF – Mobile Application Penetration Testing #4

In this part of the guide we go over more of the MobSF output for the YouTube APK

Software and Data Integrity Failures – OWASP Top Ten

Welcome to the final entry in our OWASP Top Ten Series – Software and Data Integrity Failures. If you haven’t read any of the previous ones, check them out. Among the OWASP Top Ten entries, Software and Data Integrity Failures have emerged as a formidable category that encapsulates a range of issues where assumptions about

More MobSF – Mobile Application Penetration Testing #3

Mobile Application Penetration Testing

Mobile Application Penetration Testing – #2 – MobSF Intro

If you haven’t read the previous entry in the Mobile Application Penetration Testing series, check it out. In this post we will start in with a frequently use mobile application security tool – MobSF. This is a tool that you’ll pretty much want to use on every mobile test that you do. As said before,