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Hacking High Scores in iOS GameCenter

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Karl Fosaaen

March 18, 2013

I recently wrote a blog post about cracking email hashes from the iOS GameCenter application. During my research on the issue, I noticed that there were a number of games where users had insanely high scores. Lots of the users also had the exact same score (9,223,372,036,844,775,807) for each of the games that they played. Coincidentally this number is the largest possible signed integer value that you can have. It turns out that getting these high scores isn't that hard to do.
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Hacking Web Services with Burp

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Eric Gruber

March 5, 2013

I’ve written a plugin for Burp that takes a WSDL request and parses out the operations that are associated with the targeted web service and creates SOAP requests which can then be sent to a web service. This plugin builds upon the work done by Tom Bujok and his soap-ws project which is essentially the WSDL parsing portion of Soap-UI without the UI.
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10 Evil User Tricks for Bypassing Anti-Virus

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Scott Sutherland

January 16, 2013

Many anti-virus solutions are deployed with weak configurations that provide end users with the ability to quickly disable or work around the product if they wish. This blog will provide a brief overview of 10 issues to watch out for. It should be interesting to administrators looking for basic weaknesses in their current implementations.
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Hacking Passbook, the Real Way to do Extreme Couponing

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Karl Fosaaen

December 12, 2012

With the release of iOS 6, Apple introduced the Passbook application. The purpose of the Passbook application is to provide a one-stop application to manage all of your coupons, loyalty/gift cards, and tickets/boarding passes. This all sounds great, but what happens when an attacker abuses this service to get discounts or to access other peoples’ gift cards. This blog will show you how easy it is to intercept Passbook passes, modify them, and redeploy them to the Passbook application.
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5 Ways to Find Systems Running Domain Admin Processes

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Scott Sutherland

July 9, 2012

Migrating to Domain Admin processes is a common way penetration testers are able to impersonate Domain Admin accounts on the network. However, before a pentester can do that, they need to know what systems those processes are running on. In this blog I’ll cover 5 techniques to help you do that.
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How to Access RDP over a Reverse SSH Tunnel

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Scott Sutherland

June 15, 2012

In this blog I’ll be providing instructions for establishing an RDP connection over a reverse SSH tunnel using plink.exe and FreeSSHd. This blog should be useful to penetration testers, admins, and any home users looking for a pseudo VPN solution.
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