by digitaloperatives | Aug 27, 2017 | Research, Security News
Q: Is this a cyber security story or a finance risk story? A: Both, financial and cyber risks are more related than ever. I’ve read about the reasons for owning Bitcoin, some of these were intuitive for me long before this was ever compiled. Back in 2012 when I...
by digitaloperatives | Jul 5, 2017 | Research
Magiic was created in 2013 to help users securely index and search their PGP-encrypted email. It has been a while since Magiic was released and updated, and its original functionality of indexing only messages stored on a remote IMAP server did not serve...
by digitaloperatives | Feb 23, 2015 | Capture the Flag
We began with no hint, and the file ‘cloudfs-31c938df3531611b82fddf0685784a2b67373305ec689015f193a555b756beb2’. The command file tells us that it is compressed data. $ file cloudfs-31c938df3531611b82fddf0685784a2b67373305ec689015f193a555b756beb2...
by digitaloperatives | Sep 25, 2014 | Research
Just wanted to post a quick alternative of Metasploit’s VMWare Fusion CVE-2014-6271 exploit ( metasploit-framework / modules / exploits / osx / local / vmware_bash_function_root.rb ) for local shell use. hephaestus:~ jdugie$ for cmd in "cp /bin/bash /tmp/"...
by digitaloperatives | Sep 22, 2014 | Capture the Flag
The annual NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) Capture The Flag (CTF) competition online qualifiers were held September 19-21, 2014. This is a writeup of one of the Exploitation challenges we solved: "saturn". The...
