1705, 2021

Murder Board Blog Series: Chapter 4 – Trojan Horses or: State Hacking

Sanna/ May 17, 2021/ Internet, Security, Stories

Feeding Pigeons in the Park—Espionage Knowledge is power. Knowing nothing makes one envious when looking at the model of modern information societies. The natural application of networks that transport information is espionage. So the Internet early made acquaintance with it. The aspect of smuggling messages in and out of an area is obvious. It also involves breaking through security measures to gain access to protected information. Whereby large parts of our own information are much less protected than we would like or even be aware of. The e-mails mentioned above are always in plain text and therefore are visible to everyone. An unknown number of third parties read them on the way from sender to recipient and assess this information. And all the information we have in accounts on US platforms (photos, more or

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2903, 2021

Translated Article: E-Privacy Regulation allows retained Data and duplicate Keys

Sanna/ March 29, 2021/ Discussion, Internet, Legal, Stories

E-Privacy-Verordnung erlaubt Vorratsdaten und Nachschlüssel by Erich Moechel for fm4.ORF.at The most important EU regulation for the protection of privacy contains a license for data processing of all kinds without the consent of the user and allows political parties to spread spam mail. For four years the e-privacy regulation has been stuck in the EU Council of Ministers, but under the Portuguese presidency, it was possible to agree on a version for the first time. However, this version of the “Ordinance on the Respect of Privacy and the Protection of Personal Data” has been designed in such a way that Germany’s top data protection officer, Ulrich Kelber, sees “several red lines crossed at the same time”. In addition to the reference to data retention, which was rejected by the EU Court of Justice for the third

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1409, 2020

DeepSec 2020 Talk: Abusing Azure Active Directory: Who Would You Like To Be Today? – Dr. Nestori Syynimaa

Sanna/ September 14, 2020/ Conference

This will be one of the few online talks held at DeepSec. Dr. Nestori Syynimaa covers the wonderful world of Azure AD and third-party code. Azure AD is used by Microsoft Office 365 and over 2900 third-party apps. Although Azure AD is commonly regarded as secure, there are serious vulnerabilities regarding identity federation, pass-through authentication, and seamless single-sign-on. In this session, using AADInternals PowerShell module, I’ll demonstrate the exploitation of these vulnerabilities to create backdoors, impersonate users, and bypass MFA. The purpose of this session is to raise awareness of the importance of the principle of least privilege and the role of on-prem security to cloud security. We asked Dr. Nestori Syynimaa a few more questions about his talk. Please tell us the most important facts about your talk. Azure AD acts as an

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