Questions tagged [audit]
For questions about the assessment of software, hardware, systems, people, processes, procedures, projects, etc, that are somehow related to the security of an organization or product. Often these are related to a certification the organization or product holds, or looking for tools or processes for performing an audit.
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How can we verify the security of a device? [duplicate]
I've recently been experiencing a situation as follows:
How can I understand the IO of an unknown device?
Say, for example, I am gifted a bluetooth speaker. How can I understand its potential for ...
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Inheriting Old Website Maintenance: Demonstrating Code Vulnerabilities [closed]
I've just inherited the maintenance of an old website. The code is awful and I'd like to demonstrate to my superiors that the code is bad and vulnerable.
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Security frontend side
Hi i´m a frontend developer and next week we will have a security audit i need to be sure that frontend side is secure and dont have vulnerabilities, so my question is, ¿What would you recommend or ...
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Which standard can be used to seed security checklist for web application?
I am trying to create a security checklist for developers/testers of web applications to make sure that the web app is compliant with all the security guidelines.
When looking at the different ...
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XSS Payload That Can Bypass Special Character Check
I developed the following C# algorithm to prevent XSS attacks:
private bool Is_There_XSS_Payload(string arg)
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Regex regex = new Regex(@"^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$");
bool result = ...
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remediation for security related issues
I have a report by foresiet for a company's website.
There's a bunch of files in the output.
One example in App Misconfiguration :
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x.x.x.x
my-domain.io
Weak SSH cipher supported!
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Open
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How did I get hacked? [closed]
As usual, I ordered a CentOS 7 virtual machine from my hoster. Installed a firewalld and docker on it. In docker, through docker-compose, I launched a web application that hangs on the standard port ...
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User Access to Quarantined Emails
Are there any industry recommendations with regards to allowing users access to quarantined emails in Office 365? Should users be notified of quarantined emails. Should they be allowed to request the ...
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How to find out what Microsoft 365 Defender is monitoring?
I am currently analyzing our security landscape with the help of the MITRE ATT&CK Framework. Most techniques have ways to "Mitigate" and to "Detect" it, and one of the most ...
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Which of the following Linys auditing suggestions are worthwhile?
I'm currently securing a Linode VPS that will host a WordPress store and two Python web applications. Security-wise, I've run the most "basic" steps, such as hardening SSH access (i.e. ...
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security audit for gitlab instance
I recently joined a start up company that specializes in software development as a cybersecurity risk management for an internship of 6 months, my first task was to audit the company's gitlab page ...
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Verifying closed-source services' security [duplicate]
I tried to find a resource about how one verifies a service's security and their claims when they are not open source. Like 1Password, they describe many good approaches that they are using to secure ...
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Prevention of User Tampering the API by Serverless clients which are in sync with the real world client
As we all know, never trust the client, when they send data to your server. However what if you prevent data manipulation by completely restructuring the architecture to something like the following:
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Security Implications from Base64 Image
I copy / pasted a data:image/png;Base64 image from a Google search into a Google Slide, before realizing it was a BASE64 image. Is there any possibility that this contains malicious code, or any way ...
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Questions on user context and auditing for background job execution for SaaS application
I have some questions related with user context and auditing for background job execution for SaaS application.
Let's say an admin user scheduled a background job through UI. When the job start ...
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System audit of hardened device regarding certificate handling
I am tasked with auditing the default configuration (system configuration, default applications...) that is set for some computers before they are given to users.
Though I have never seen it anywhere, ...
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Is Reading Windows Reserved Filenames Through a URL Valid for OS Enumeration?
I'm aware that writing a file with a reserved name such as CON.txt or CON.mp3, aux.txt, lpt1.html, etc. is not allowed by Windows and can be leveraged for enumeration.
However, what about reading a ...
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Ex Employee as Consultant
We are in process of going for SOC2 audit. I need your help in clarifying an HR element. The problem statement(s) is as below
If we want to hire ex-employee of a company as a consultant what all ...
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Design review/criticism of secure master-workers system
I am designing a system which will have one main process/service (master) which can potentially offload part of it's work to N number of external remote processes (workers). I want the worker ...
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OpenSCAP Tailoring - Possible to change rule severity
Is it possible to change the severity of a rule using an OpenSCAP tailoring/customization file?
UPDATE (2022-04-13):
refine-rule seems like it could solve this but cannot find any documentation for ...
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Use of JWT Token in open source project
I'm currently performing a code audit for an application that a company will release to the public as open-source in the next few days.
In this application, they use a JWT token for authentication and ...
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What's suspicious about this event log?
I got an event that something is wrong with, but I don't understand what exactly.
{
"EventTime":"2021-11-22 21:05:45",
"Hostname":"pc2",
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LAN Only Webserver
I am on a 192.x.x.x network and have a local server that hosts some webapps for the local users of the network. The server is running:
Ubuntu
VPN
Nginx Reverse Proxy with the site.conf including: ...
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Security requirements for small tax software business
I have a client who does payroll and taxes and is looking for a web app to easily communicate and transfer tax related documents for clients. I would assume that the IRS or someone would have some ...
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How to perform security audit of a web service that uses google cloud's external HTTP(s) load balancer?
An independent security auditor discovered many open ports by using nmap while auditing a web service deployed on GCP. The service is a Cloud Run instance behind an HTTP(s) load balancer. The auditor ...
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Third party consultants background checks, NDA signing etc for SOC-2
We are a SOC-2 compliant company. We used to have all full time employees till now, hence we could do our due diligence on all the hired employees e.g. Background checks, reference checks, getting NDA ...
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How could I know if a website is fingerprinting you via WebGL?
I would like to know if a website is fingerprinting me via WebGL,
first of all, knowing if the site is doing it
Knowing when they send the request to my browser
Knowing what value I am reporting to ...
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Do the organisational policies need to have ownership to ensure accountability?
Policies are the high-level statement from Senior Management. It's a philosophy for the management to be guided by, and management has the direction to plan, build, run and monitor the activities to ...
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What alternative standard for ISO 27001 can be used in Australia?
I am looking for alternatives, that are less strict and less time consuming, than ISO 27001. Australia is in the Commonwealth, so maybe Cyber Essentials Plus could work, but I do not know if that ...
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What information should I collect when a user performs an action on a website? [closed]
In the development of an organization's web system (containing sensitive information) with credentials, where the actions carried out must be monitored, what information should I keep when each action ...
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Synology logs SMB "Read" event false positives
We recently switched to a Synology enterprise setup at work and we're hoping to benefit from the additional logging that comes with Synology software. In response to a security incident, I found log ...
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AuditD and SysCall alerts
Given an alert rule like -a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S open -S openat -F exit=-EACCES -k access how does adding multiple SysCalls (-S) options work?
When an application gets executed do all the ...
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How to start pentesting/reverse engineering/cracking a software on Linux? (Docker based) [closed]
TL:DR; What are good learning resources for security testing a software which runs with Docker on Ubuntu.
I am in junior position at this company, and they figured it would be good if I just test ...
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PCI scope for a Direct-Post e-commerce site (SAQ A-EP)
An e-commerce site uses the Direct-Post method (see page 14 PCI e-commerce security).
Is the server for the e-commerce application and network it resides on in scope for PCI? There are questions in ...
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auditd rules for both 64-bit (b64) and 32-bit (b32) architectures
I'm looking at the OpenSCAP Security Guide for CentOS 7:
https://static.open-scap.org/ssg-guides/ssg-centos7-guide-index.html
Under "Record File Deletion Events by User" (as an example), it ...
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Do people even exist who actually vet all the updates to their open source software?
A year or so ago, I set up this system which, whenever Composer (that's PHP's packet/library update manager) fetched new updates to my few (but critically required) third-party libraries, created a ...
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Election security is considered one of the most difficult problems in computer security [closed]
Not just electronic voting, but in election security general.
I think it part is because there are many components to it, and it has many components that could be compromised.
What are some of the top ...
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Is there any such thing as an independent code vetting project which works for free to vet open source projects?
I'm sure I'm not the only one who is scared to death to blindly trust random strangers with all my data. Which is the case in practice if, for example, I'm to use this library right now, which I'm ...
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Is it possible to ensure detection and logging of all attempts to copy data out of a system?
I am cross-posting this question from Serverfault, because I am in doubt where it fits best.
Say I have a server set up for processing sensitive data. The few authorised users of the system are ...
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Logging SSH commands on Linux - is custom kernel the only way?
I've done some research and it looks like that the way linux keeps history is less about security and audit and more about helping the user.
Even after making changes to instantly log the command and ...
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Need help collating resources for an information/cyber security audit document for an MSP
I am currently serving out an internship with a small MSP (4 employees, 50-100 clients with between a couple and 100 employees).
My main project is to work on a information/cyber security audit ...
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Monitoring User (developer) interaction
I'm looking for a "tamper proof" way, if there is such a thing, to monitor what a developer/engineer does on a given system.
To expand a bit more about this, we have several systems that run ...
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Getting numerous HEAD requests by Java user agents to resources that require authentication to view within a web application. Should I block them?
I have recently started using Cloudflare's firewall in front of a web application. This app has a limited user base of selected applicants and they must log in to view anything. There is no public ...
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Difference between Web App Pentesting and Web App Security Audit
I'm having a hard time drawing the line between Web App pentesting vs a Web App Security Audit.
For instance, OWASP Testing Guide could be used for both of those cases.
Let's say the pentester and ...
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IT security audit : is threat modelling key to reproducible success of just following a methodology (ex : ethical hacking)
To sum up the methodology of ethical hacking, what you do is :
Information gathering (gets the IP, domains, etc...)
Fingerprint the IP (what OS, what services are running, etc...)
Vulnerability ...
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How can Linux service installation page create an attack surface?
Based on one of the lectures of Planning, Auditing and Maintaining Enterprise system course by Greg Williams (Department of computer science university of Colorado):
Let's say they were installing ...
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Is it insecure to expose private bucket names through signed URL?
AWS provides signed url to objects in bucket.On backend we can connect with AWS and create such signed urls and send to front-endJust discussing this one use case where we use that signed url to make ...
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Is attribute-based encryption safe for production use?
I'm very interested in attribute-based encryption (ABE). I see various working examples online, and I want to know, has it been verified as production-ready? What does it mean to have a security audit,...
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How to Ask for More Transparency from Companies Handling Our Personal Data
A company's asked me to submit a scan of my passport claiming KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-money Laundering) purposes. In times of daily data breaches, what can we ask for a company to be ...
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saving entire Windows event log for auditing & preserve digital evidence
As an admin one gets tasked with configuring [Microsoft Windows 10] computers so that auditing is enabled and captures all events as required by some list that's already defined and handed down.
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