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The Evolution of Whitehat Hacking: From Ethics to Actionable Security Solutions

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This insightful piece recounts the journey and practices of whitehat hacking, emphasizing the evolution of ethical hacking from its beginnings in 2011. Highlighting notable security issues uncovered in various organizations, including government bodies and educational institutions, it offers a detailed overview of strategies for responsibly reporting vulnerabilities. It covers legal considerations, ethical guidelines, case studies of successful fixes, and the continuous challenge of addressing security flaws while maintaining integrity and effective communication with impacted parties. **Relevant

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The Evolution of Whitehat Hacking: From Ethics to Actionable Security Solutions

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  1. Stupid Whitehat Tricks HI-TEC July 22, 2014

  2. Bio

  3. How it Started 2011

  4. PBS Hacked

  5. Whitehatting • Contacting companies about security problems • With no contract • No authorization

  6. What Limits Whitehatting?

  7. Laws

  8. CISSP Code of Ethics

  9. DEMOSQLi on Pastebin

  10. Verify the Vulnerability • Do NOT explore any further • Actually injecting commands is a crime

  11. Find a Contact Address • Should be security@domain.com or abuse@domain.com • Those are rarely monitored

  12. Letter Design • Simple management-level summary of the problem • No technical details • Give your real name & contact information • No demands, no threats

  13. Pilot Study • 7/23 Fixed (30%) after 3 days • http://samsclass.info/lulz/cold-calls.htm

  14. Student Projects • Done by CISSP-prep students at CCSF • Contacted over 200 sites with SQL injections > 15% of them were fixed

  15. Major Breaches or Vulnerabilities

  16. Breaches or VulnerabilitiesI Reported in 2011 • FBI, Police Depts., UK Supreme Court • Chinese Gov't • Police departments (many of them) • CNN, PBS, Apple, Schools

  17. I Sought Personal Contacts

  18. Positive Results • Several good security contacts inside corporations, law enforcement, and government agencies • Many problems fixed, several before they were exploited

  19. Negative Results • Some Twitter followers were offended and suspicious when I found so many high-profile vulnerabilities so fast • Accusations • Performing unauthorized vulnerability scans • Peddling bogus security services • Betraying the USA

  20. (ISC)^2 Ethics Complaint

  21. DEMOPharma Infections at Colleges

  22. User-Agent = GoogleBot

  23. Normal User-Agent

  24. 19 Colleges Infected with Pharma • 5 Fixed within a few weeks • 7 Fixed within 8 months • 7 Still Infected on 7-19-14 • http://samsclass.info/125/proj11/subtle-infect.htm#19more

  25. Many More Pharma Infections • Dozens of other schools, businesses, foreign sites, etc. • http://samsclass.info/125/proj11/subtle-infect.htm#19more

  26. DEMOSQLi at Colleges

  27. Exposed Student Data

  28. Exposed Password Hash

  29. Brigham Young U

  30. Repair Rate • 15/59 (25%) fixed it within 10 days • Rate of repair was then zero

  31. >2000 WordPress Bots • Thanks to Steven Veldkamp

  32. WordPress Has Known for 7 Years

  33. Open DNS Resolvers at Colleges

  34. Results • Seven months after notification • 38% decrease in open resolvers, from a total of 682 to 421

  35. DEMOInsecure Login Pages at Colleges

  36. Insecure Login Pages at Colleges 90 colleges notified in Dec, 2013

  37. Big Names • Cornell • Johns Hopkins • Stanford • UC Berkeley

  38. Results • 7 months after notification: • 16/57 plaintext login pages fixed or improved (28%) • 8/33 mixed login pages fixed or improved (24%)

  39. Case 1:Small Canadian Developer

  40. ActiveMQ • Free open-source middleware from Apache • A Defcon talk said it was often insecure, so I looked on SHODAN to see

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