Why Was Facebook Vulnerable to an Authentication Exploit?
What Happened: As part of a bug bounty program, the AppSecure cybersecurity research team found a vulnerability on the authentication mechanism of Facebook. It gave them the ability to potentially gain full control of the social media giant’s more than 1 billion users. The team won a $15,000 bounty for its discovery. This vulnerability was […]
The Uber API Authorization Vulnerability
What Happened In September 2019, a critical bug was discovered on Uber API, which allows merchants, service providers and others to offer ride-sharing services to customers. Uber had exposed a vulnerable application programming interface (API) endpoint that allowed attackers to steal valuable data, including personally identifiable information (PII) records and authentication tokens of riders and drivers. The leaked […]
Modern AppSec and Supply Chain Attacks – Three Challenges
The recent news about the SolarWinds breach has focused on the difficulty and challenges a supply chain attack presents. In the case of what Microsoft is calling “solorigate,” the attackers modified a dll deep inside a trusted application, which was then deployed into over 18,000 enterprises and government organizations, where it would then create a live back […]