Keith is an architect by day, blogger by night. He’s responsible for all the content on this blog, and irresponsible for everything else.

Latest stories

Hosting a static website on S3 and Cloudflare

H

Hosting an S3 site via Cloudflare From my previous post, you can see that I hosted a slide show on a subdomain on hitbgsec.keithrozario.com. The site is just a keynote presentation exported to html format, which I then hosted on an S3 bucket. The challenge I struggled with, was how to point the domain which I hosted on Cloudflare to the domain hosting the static content. The recommended way is to...

Keith’s on #HITBGSEC

K

I haven’t blogged in a long while — but I have a good(ish!) excuse. I spent most of August prepping for the #HITBGSEC conference in Singapore. It was my first time presenting at a security conference, and I had an absolute blast. The output of the countless hours I spent is in the embedded youtube video below, and the presentation material can downloaded here[.key] and a html version...

Thoughts on SingHealth Data Breach

T

On the 20th of July, Singaporean authorities announced a data breach affecting SingHealth, the country largest healthcare group. The breach impacted 1.5 million people who had used SingHealth services over the last 3 years. Oh boy, another data breach with 1.5 million records … **yawn**. But Singapore has less than 6 million people, so it’s a BIG deal to this island I currently call...

The Malaysian Government isn’t watching your porn habits

T

Recently, there was a poorly written article in The New Straits Times, that suggested the Malaysian Police would know if you were watching porn online. Let me cut to the chase, the article is shit. The software in question, aptly named Internet Crime Against Children Child Online Protective Services (ICACCOPS) is used to detect Child Pornography, and Child Pornography only — as the name...

Security Headers for Gov-TLS-Audit

S

Gov-TLS-Audit got a brand new domain today. No longer is it sharing a crummy domain with sayakenahack (which is still blocked in Malaysia!), it now has a place to call it’s own. The domain cost me a whooping $18.00/yr on AWS, and involved a couple hours of registration and migration. So I felt that while migrating domains, I might as well implement proper security headers as well. Security...

Why my people will never be Ministers

W

As Malaysians woke up today, to a brand new cabinet of Ministers, many have already begun expressing their dissatisfaction on the lineup. I know better than to wade into these politically charged discussions — but I will point out that my people have long been overlooked for Ministerial positions. Who are ‘my people’ you ask… Hackers. Or if you prefer a less negative word...

The GREAT .my outage of 2018

T

Last week, MyNic suffered a massive outage taking out any website that had a .my domain, including local banks like maybank2u.com.my and even government websites hosted on .gov.my. Here’s a great report on what happened from IANIX. I’m no DNSSEC expert, but here’s my laymen reading of what happened: .my uses DNSSEC Up to 11-Jun,.my used a DNSKEY with key tag:25992 For some...

The Malaysian Ministry of Education Data Breach

T

Ok, I’ve been pretty involved in the latest data breach, so here’s my side of the story. At around 11pm last Friday, I got a query from Zurairi at The Malay Mail, asking for a second opinion on a strange email the newsdesk received from an ‘anonymous source’. The email was  regular vulnerability disclosure, but one that was full of details, attached with an enormous amount...

3 times GovTLS helped fixed government websites

3

Couple months back I started GovTLSAudit. A simple service that would scan  .gov.my domains, and report on their implementation of TLS. But the service seems to have benefits above and beyond that, specifically around having a list of a government sites that we can use to cross-check against other intel sources like Shodan (which we already do daily) and VirusTotal. So here’s 3 times...

Look ma, Open Redirect on Astro

L

If you’ve come here from a link on twitter — you’d see that the address bar still says login.astro.com.my, but the site is rendering this page from my blog. If not, click this link to see what I mean. You’ll get something like this: Somehow I’ve managed to serve content from my site on an astro domain. Rest assured, I haven’t ‘hacked’ astro servers...