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Maximize Security with Attack Surface Management and Continuous Penetration Testing
Mar 25, 2024 Sprocket Security

Maximize Security with Attack Surface Management and Continuous Penetration Testing

Change Detection is the cog that turns it all for our continuous penetration testing solution. Sprocket’s attack surface management gives your organization deep visibility into the very same shadow IT assets our testers test against.
I Love Lucee: Building Lucee Extensions for Remote Code Execution
Mar 15, 2024 Juan Pablo Gomez Postigo

I Love Lucee: Building Lucee Extensions for Remote Code Execution

During the past few assessments, Sprocket has encountered improperly configured instances of Lucee 5 and 4. This blog post will detail a straightforward method to execute remote code after acquiring administrative access to a Lucee login panel.
Subdomain Takeovers - It’s Always DNS
Mar 07, 2024 Justin Wise

Subdomain Takeovers - It’s Always DNS

In this article, we will look at a few different takeover methods, detail how we find them, show how they are exploited, and the easy solution to fixing this potentially severe vulnerability.
Directory Brute-forcing at Scale
Feb 15, 2024 Nicholas Anastasi

Directory Brute-forcing at Scale

Tools such as dirbuster, gobuster, feroxbuster, dirb, and ffuf have been instrumental in uncovering hidden content on websites. These tools and wordlists designed to discover files and directories have become staples in the toolkits of penetration testers and bug bounty hunters. Now more than ever, technology plays a vital role in cybersecurity practices.
Introducing Security Testing in QA
Jan 10, 2024 Sprocket Security

Introducing Security Testing in QA

Fixing these vulnerabilities in production is more expensive than finding and fixing them earlier in the SDLC. One way that organizations can drive down the cost of vulnerability management is by integrating security testing into software quality assurance (QA) testing.
Surfacing the Invisible: A Guide to Web Application Attack Surface Management
Dec 05, 2023 Will Vandevanter

Surfacing the Invisible: A Guide to Web Application Attack Surface Management

The top five web application-specific attack surface management opportunities Sprocket Security sees regularly.