Study together with the BSI: IT security of smart radiator thermostats
Certitude carried out the technical security testing of smart radiator thermostats on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Information Security (BSI). The study that ...
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Certitude @ BSides Berlin: A Closer Look at UPS Vulnerabilities
On October 26, 2024, our colleague Wolfgang Ettlinger presented an eye-opening talk at BSides Berlin titled, "Can an Attacker with Full Control Over a UPS's ...
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Cyber Resilience Act passed
The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is an EU regulation for security in hardware and software products with digital elements, which was adopted by the Council of the Eur ...
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Yvonne Bauer elected to the Women4Cyber Board
We are extremely pleased to announce that our employee Yvonne was recently elected to the board of Women4Cyber Austria! Women4Cyber is a non-profit organis ...
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Certitude at the 26th OpenShift Community Meetup
We were very pleased with the good exchange at the 26th OpenShift user meeting on September 10, 2024! Together with Michael Hauenschild and Edvin Seferovic from the ...
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Exploring Anti-Phishing Measures in Microsoft 365
In this post we will explore some of the anti-phishing measures employed by Microsoft 365 (formally Office 365) as well as their weaknesses. Certitude was able to ...
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Credential Disclosure in LastPass
LastPass was susceptible to a clickjacking attack. By intercepting traffic, an attacker would have been able to harvest login credentials of LastPass users. LastPass ...
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Crowdstrike debacle: How do we protect ourselves?
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_screen_of_death_on_a_Dell_laptop.jpg (cropped) Last Friday, a faulty software update to the anti-malware ...
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HIPAA, how your company becomes compliant
Companies that work with US health data must be “HIPAA compliant.” This is not limited to those based in the USA, but to all companies and subcontractors that come ...
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CERTITUDE @ Austrian Platform Engineering Community
As in previous years, the "Austrian Platform Engineering Community" event took place on May 16, 2024, at the BRZ. The one-day event, organized in cooperation with ...
Read MoreKey-Facts NIS2 draft law
Summary of the Austrian national NIS2 draft law from 03.04.2024 This article is only available in ...
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ISMS for industry based on IEC 62443
Requirements from NIS2 (critical infrastructures) for manufacturing companies and operators of essential services as well as specific requirements for information ...
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Skynet wants your Passwords! – Defending Against AI-Driven Social Engineering Attacks
This second installment in our series takes a fresh look at defenses against social engineering that leverage AI technology. As we delve into strategies for both ...
Read MoreDORA Regulation Update: Introducing the 2nd batch of RTS & ITS
On the 8 of December 2023 the second batch of RTS (Regulatory Technical Standards) & ITS (Implementation Technical Standards) was released. These documents ...
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CERTITUDE @ DEEPSEC 2023
Alexander Hurbean and Wolfgang Ettlinger @ Deepsec 2023© DeepSec - Joanna Pianka The latest DeepSec security conference brought great minds together again from the ...
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Using Cloudflare to bypass Cloudflare
Cloudflare customer-configured protection mechanisms (e.g., Firewall, DDoS prevention) for websites can be bypassed due to gaps in cross-tenant security controls ...
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Red Hat | CERTITUDE – OpenShift Security
On September 21st 2023, Certitude and Red Hat jointly held a webinar on the topic of OpenShift security. In the webinar titled "Wie OpenShift die häufigsten ...
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Thousands of Organizations Vulnerable to Subdomain Hijacking
Subdomain Hijacking presents a concerning scenario where attackers take control of websites hosted on subdomains owned by reputable organizations, enabling them to ...
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Skynet wants your Passwords! – AI and Social Engineering
As we explore the capabilities of modern AI in assisting us across both our personal and professional lives, malicious actors too are investigating its potential uses ...
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Privilege Escalation in IBM Spectrum Virtualize
During a very short security test, Certitude identified two vulnerabilities in the firmware of IBM Spectrum Virtualize, a storage solution by IBM. One of these ...
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Skynet wants your Passwords! @ WeAreDevelopers
The WeAreDevelopers World Congress is regarded by many as Europe's flagship conference for developers and brings together an impressive community of software and ...
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Election manipulation possible – SPÖ member survey vulnerable to hackers
This article is only available in ...
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Increase in Online-Fraud against Accounting
Certitude has noticed an increase in online fraud against the accounting departments of companies in Germany and Austria in the recent weeks. Attackers make customers ...
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The dangers from across browser-windows
While browsing the web, your browser does its best to protect you along the way, but sometimes fails to do so, if not instructed properly by the website you ...
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A Guide to Embedding Threat Modeling into Risk Management (Part 1)
Overview Showing the benefits of threat modeling to management less invested in cyber security topics is notoriously hard as the added value of security, in ...
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Bypassing Web Application Firewalls
Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) are the go-to infrastructure components used to hinder attacks against web applications. What is it that WAFs really offer – can they ...
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Certitude @ DeepSec 2022
Last week, November 17th and 18th, the DeepSec security conference took place in the Renaissance hotel in Vienna. With more than 50 talks and workshops content was ...
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Bypass phishing detections with Google Translate
A new wave of phishing is currently circulating (a related story from derstandard.at newspaper can be found here). Documents are said to have been sent to you from a ...
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Kubernetes Security @ WeAreDevelopers
The WeAreDevelopers World Congress is considered by many as Europe's flagship event for developers, bringing together an amazing community from software and ...
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Novelties of NIS2
The Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive is the first EU-wide piece of cybersecurity legislation, whose primary objective is to achieve a high common ...
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Kubernetes Security @ DeepSec Vienna 2021
On 18th and 19th of November 2021, the DeepSec security conference took place in Vienna to bring together the world's most renowned security professionals from ...
Read MoreRansomware Actor May Have Leaked Their Previous Victims
Recently we were tasked with investigating a ransomware attack case. We were able to reconstruct the likely attack vector and identify the data that was likely stolen ...
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HTTP Header Injection in Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway (CVE-2020-8300, CVE-2021-22927)
We have discovered a vulnerability in Citrix products (Citrix ADC and Citrix Gateway) that allows an attacker to conduct header injection attacks. This would have ...
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Unpatched Exchange servers distribute phishing links (squirrelwaffle)
Beginning of November a customer reached out to us. Internal and external users reported suspicious mails sent from their mail accounts, which included suspicious ...
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The Invisible JavaScript Backdoor
A few months ago we saw a post on the r/programminghorror subreddit: A developer describes the struggle of identifying a syntax error resulting from an invisible ...
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RCE in GridPro Request Management for Windows Azure Pack (CVE-2021-40371)
We recently discovered a vulnerability in GridPro Request Management versions <=2.0.7905 for Windows Azure Pack by GridPro Software. The vulnerability was ...
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Citrix ADC & Citrix Gateway Vulnerability CVE-2020-8300
Update: Details regarding this vulnerability can be found here: https://certitude.consulting/blog/en/citrix-header-injection-2/ We have identified an issue in ...
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DP API encryption ineffective in Windows containers: Publicly Available Cryptographic Keys (CVE-2021-1645)
We recently discovered a vulnerability in the DP API key management of Windows containers. This vulnerability was assigned CVE-2021-1645 by Microsoft [1] and ...
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CSRF in JSF 2.0: Predicting CSRF Tokens for Apache MyFaces
JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a commonly used server-side web framework. Developers appreciate its relative ease of use while security engineers appreciate its ready-made ...
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Exploring Anti-Phishing Measures in Microsoft 365 – Pt. 2
In a previous blog post, we described an issue with the "First Contact Safety Tip" which allowed it to be bypassed by malicious actors. Recently, we discovered that ...
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Die Presse – 7.11.2024 – Certitude about the CRA
The EU's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) enforces consistent cybersecurity standards for digital products to enhance consumer protection. Florian Schweitzer, cybersecurity ...
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