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🐝 Hive Five 170 - No Web Without Women
The great intergenerational theft, 10 Things Your First Security Hire Shouldn’t Do, and more...
Bee Gagliardi
May 06, 2024
Hi friends,
Greetings from the hive!
I've been writing more and more automation by augmenting myself using AI. These are improvements that I would put in the backlog in the past.
Let's take this week by swarm!
🐝 The Bee's Knees
No web without women: A collection of innovations by women in the fields of computer science and technology. MORE
In this episode, Johan Carlsson shares updates on his bug hunting journey, including a CSP bypass on GitHub and a critical finding in GitLab's pipeline. He also discusses his approach to using script gadgets. MORE
Marketing professor Scott Galloway discusses the financial struggles of young Americans, highlighting the "great intergenerational theft" and calling for action to address the root causes. MORE
GitLab Devfile file write vulnerability (CVE-2024-0402) allowed arbitrary file write and command execution on GitLab instances by chaining multiple vulnerabilities. MORE
10 Things Your First Security Hire Shouldn’t Do, e.g. "1) Don’t run a public bug bounty" and "5) Don’t gatekeep security from the folks who were already doing the work". MORE
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Table of Contents
📰 News and Updates
🍯 My work
✅ Changelog
Durl v0.2 focuses on removing duplicate URLs by retaining only the unique combinations of hostname, path, and parameter names. MORE
Caduceus v1.0.3 release is a tool to scan IPs or CIDRs for certificates. This allows finding hidden domains, new organizations, and more. MORE
DOMPurify 3.1.2 is a fast, secure, and highly configurable XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML, and SVG, with a secure default and extensive customization options. MORE
xnldorker v1.0 is a tool that automates the process of gathering results from various search engines using specialized search queries (dorks). MORE
Gungnir v1.0.7 continuously monitors certificate transparency (CT) logs for newly issued SSL/TLS certificates. MORE
📅 News
Google's mobile VRP program celebrates 1 year with reward increases and key lessons learned to improve mobile security. MORE
Pieter Levels, the founder of Levels, has launched a merch shop. MORE
Nil Blend coffee by 10x developers. Only orderable via the terminal. MORE
Bugcrowd, a leading vulnerability disclosure platform, now offers free VDPs, providing organizations with a cost-effective way to manage their security programs. MORE
HackerOne CEO Marten Mickos is retiring after 9 years of leading the bug bounty platform. MORE
💼 Career and Productivity
💰 Career
Supabase is hiring a security engineer and more. MORE
Google Exec shares 3 Steps to Write Great Slides. Actionable tips from a Google Strategy & Operations Manager on creating powerful presentations. MORE
The video discusses "The ladders of wealth creation" by Nathan Barry, a step-by-step roadmap to building wealth. MORE
In this vlog, you'll join the creator on a journey to a fitness and business summit in Nashville, Tennessee. Amidst the rise in loneliness in the digital age, the video aims to inspire self-growth and fulfillment. MORE
Luke and his agency create content for cybersecurity organizations. They are currently seeking new work opportunities. MORE
🚀 Productivity
Kanata is a cross-platform advanced keyboard customization tool that allows users to remap their keyboard keys, providing enhanced control and personalization. MORE
Jason Fried discusses motivation, habit formation, time management, and the importance of finding joy in problem-solving. Their conversations often feature contrasting perspectives, leading to engaging discussions. MORE
The video demonstrates how to use fzf, a powerful fuzzy-finding tool, to quickly search and navigate through Git branches and commits. The accompanying article provides additional details. MORE
Discovering a third home transformed the speaker's perspective on living. This raw, unfiltered video explores the concept of a third home and its profound impact. MORE
🌎 Community and Networking
🎉 Celebrate
sumgr0 received swag for reaching 5k reputation on a platform. Congrats! MORE
⚡️ Community
Trash Puppy, a hacker, programmer, and streamer, shares her journey into the cybersecurity industry and experiences in her first job in the field. MORE
A recap of a HackerOne live hacking event in Las Vegas, showcasing the collaboration between HackerOne and Amazon to find and fix vulnerabilities. MORE
Codingo shares that Bugcrowd, a bug bounty platform, has an internal "Kaching" channel where hackers are celebrated for discovering high-severity vulnerabilities (P1) or receiving large payments. MORE
💛 Follow
Awesome accounts to follow. Randomly selected from my curated Twitter lists.
@Infosec_Taylor | Ashley - Serious Security Scientist.
@jhooks | joel | lvl 15 half-orc nerd | working on badass_courses | dubia vita electiones.
@RogueSMG | RogueSMG | Hacker Wannabe | YouTube | NullAhm | SRT | Psychology
@bellafusari1 | bells ฅ(•ㅅ•❀)ฅ | An ellie waltman fanpage with a knack for breaking software.
📚 Learning and Growth
📰 Read
Coverage Guided Fuzzing - Instrumenting code to find bugs faster, a valuable technique in security assessments and pentesting. MORE
An empty, private AWS S3 bucket can incur unexpected charges, potentially causing your AWS bill to skyrocket overnight. The article examines this issue and provides insights to avoid such unpleasant billing surprises. More
CVE-2024-2887: A Pwn2Own winning bug in Google Chrome that allows an attacker to bypass type checks and convert any reference type into another, potentially leading to a remote code execution attack. MORE
CodeQL zero to hero part 3: Security research with CodeQL. Learn how to use CodeQL for security research and improve your security research workflow. MORE
💡 Tips
Code review plateaux: Common reasons and how to overcome them. Explore tips to improve and progress beyond stagnation. MORE
Creating a wordlist for CI/CD hacking using AI. MORE
Renniepak discovered a way to import external scripts with JavaScript's
import()function without using quotes, by utilizing a regular expression. MORETIL that the Internet Archive, a digital library, is headquartered in a church building and offers free tours on Fridays for the public. MORE
🔑 Cross-pollination
Mechanical watches with date displays are uncommon and pricey due to the complexity of their "complication" features, which go beyond just telling the time. MORE
Comprehensive streaming guide for latest movies and TV shows, including Oppenheimer, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and more. MORE
Film photography offers a unique and immersive experience, with its deliberate framing and inscription processes, despite the sacrifice of time and cost. MORE
I'm not a look-alike! is a project that photographs look-alikes worldwide, organizes an international exhibition, and publishes a book. MORE
Get $200 to try DigitalOcean. Level up your bug bounty game with the ultimate VPS solution. It's my go-to for all recon, automation, and even VPN needs. Get access to a comprehensive range of cloud resources, all at an affordable price.
🧠 Wisdom
The basics are foundational skills and habits that underpin and amplify your advanced expertise. They are the multipliers and nullifiers, makers and breakers, of everything you do. MORE
Jason on motivation, though the money is not a motivator, he enjoys the work and the great crew they work with, which keeps them engaged after years in this pursuit. MORE
3 key lessons from Berkshire Hathaway's 2024 annual meeting: 1) The power of one sharp knife, 2) Warren Buffett's take on AI, 3) Who Warren Buffett Listens To. MORE
Shaan had an aha-erlebnis and plans to acquire ownership in companies and leverage his media influence to grow these businesses. MORE
Sell the outcome, not the product. Focus on the benefits and value you can provide to customers, rather than just the features of your product. MORE
📚 Resources
Grafana backend has a SQL injection vulnerability that can be exploited using valid account login and malicious POST requests to the "/api/ds/query" endpoint. MORE
Leveraging Postman's workflow capabilities to automate the process of discovering and testing API vulnerabilities. MORE
Stealing your Telegram account in 10 seconds flat. MORE
How Michael hacked into Google’s internal corporate assets using dependency confusion. MORE
CVE-2024-21111 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Oracle VirtualBox, a popular virtualization software. Here are the steps used to discover and exploit this issue. MORE
💭 Quote
I’m old enough to remember when the Internet wasn’t a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four.
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