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by Tal Melamed In almost every Android application, developers expose activities without sufficient protections. Exposing activities can lead to various attacks. For example, an attacker or a malicious app installed on the same device, can call those exposed activities to invoke internal pages of the application. Calling internal pages puts the application at risk of […]
Introduction to Data Protection In the world of information security it is highly advised to implement security solutions in layers. Solutions such as authentication, authorization, input validation and others help us maintain order and security when dealing with access to data. It is important to note that these techniques do not help with the data […]
Secure Development Lifecycle for Open Source Usage by Yaron Hakon Preface How do we adjust the SDL (Security Development Lifecycle) process for the growing use of open source in internal/external systems we develop and maintain? This is a question I hear a lot lately from our customers in some recent SDL projects we […]
Once Upon a Password Reset… You’ve just forgotten your password for a website. No big deal, you click “Forgot Password,” they send you a link, and you reset it. At the time the feature was designed, it was decided that this reset link would include a UUID token. The reasoning seemed sound—since UUIDs are unique, […]
Introduction Securing your application’s Firestore database is crucial for protecting sensitive data and maintaining user trust. Google Firestore, a scalable NoSQL cloud database, offers robust features for real-time data management, but securing it against threats requires careful attention. This article is designed to help developers and security professionals assess and strengthen their Firestore implementations. A […]
Incentives Firestore security is an important topic for modern applications. Its wide usage and serverless architecture may cause security issues in the areas such as authentication, authorization, and data exposure. Especially they are exposed to data leakages, which may be caused by a non-serveless design approach. In a world of multi-tier applications, using a backend […]
More up-to-date Hackvertor game-changer techniques, code examples, and tips for advanced penetration testing and bug bounty. Intro Hackvertor is a Burp extension that programmatically extends Burp capabilities, by allowing you to embed neat code logic directly into HTTP requests sent/proxies by Burp and its extensions. Similar to Postman pre-request scripts. Here, I will try to […]
Introduction Many of us have probably been faced with testing an application with custom HTTP request authentication or message signing. The requests from these applications can be proxied but they have built-in replay protection mechanisms in some form. As such, it isn’t possible to resend these requests outside of the application therefore making all external […]
Introduction In this blogpost, we will review some of the basic components of a Firebase application from a Security Perspective and talk about common issues that don’t get enough attention. What is Firebase? Firebase is a complete backend as a service with many different features that we can plug straight into our applications. For example: There […]
Introduction The cleartextTrafficPermitted flag is one of the options in Android’s Network Security Configuration file. The online documentation (https://developer.android.com/training/articles/security-config) explains that from Android 9 (API level 28) and higher, it will be set by default to false and it is intended to prevent insecure communication attempts using clear-text HTTP originating from Android applications. OK, so what does this […]