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Tag: Apple

[SANS ISC] macOS: Who’s Behind This Network Connection?

August 26, 2023 Apple, SANS Internet Storm Center, Security Leave a comment

Today, I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “macOS: Who’s Behind This Network Connection?“: When you must investigate suspicious behavior or work on an actual incident, you could be asked to determine who’s behind a network connection. From a pure network point of view, your firewall or any network security

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Scanning Malicious URLs in One Mouse Click

February 8, 2013 Apple, Malware, Websites 8 comments

Since it’s already Friday, just before leaving for the weekend, here is a quick hack for all MacOS X infosec guys… and the others! I’m not afraid to admit it: I’m lazy! We are using computers all day long and they have been created (usually 😉 to automate tasks. Let

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Managing Apple iCloud Notes with Python

January 11, 2013 Apple, Software 3 comments

This is my first post in 2013! Every begining of a new year, people tend to make a list of good resolution. I also did and one of them is to switch from Perl to Python to develop! Being a Perl addict for years, I don’t expect to completely abandon

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Cuckoo 0.5 on OS X Mountain Lion

December 31, 2012 Apple, Cuckoo, Malware, Security, Software 23 comments

Claudio Guarnieri and his developers gave us a great gift to finish the year. A few days before Christmas, they released the version 0.5 of Cuckoo, the open source malware analysis system. What’s new in this release? Plenty of nice stuffs! I won’t review there here, have a look at

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iOS4 from a Security Point of View

June 22, 2010 OS, Security, Software Leave a comment

The brand new firmware for the iPhone announced by Apple a few weeks ago is publicly available since yesterday. Called “iOS4” (special dedicace for cisco.com), it includes more than 100 new features like multitasking, folders, etc. I won’t review them here, there are multiple complete reviews already available online. Google

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  • CVE-2023-44171 (seacms) September 27, 2023
    SeaCMS V12.9 was discovered to contain an arbitrary file write vulnerability via the component admin_smtp.php.
  • CVE-2023-44172 (seacms) September 27, 2023
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    SeaCMS V12.9 was discovered to contain an arbitrary file write vulnerability via the component admin_ip.php.
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    SeaCMS v12.8 has an arbitrary code writing vulnerability in the /jxz7g2/admin_ping.php file.
  • CVE-2023-39434 (ipados, iphone_os, macos, watchos) September 27, 2023
    A use-after-free issue was addressed with improved memory management. This issue is fixed in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, watchOS 10, macOS Sonoma 14. Processing web content may lead to arbitrary code execution.
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    The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14. An app may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.
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