If you used AI to generate the blog post, did you use AI to generate the screenshots and story?

I spent over 2 hours and a small (but bigger than 0) amount of my own money to report the issue by emailing and even trying to call them (they didn't have any dedicated responsible disclosure page or contact). After some time, they finally answered my emails, took down the website and "fixed" the issue.

When I finally applied for the role, got ghosted for a week and only after I wrote them again, asking for an update, I got rejected as they allegedly were looking for someone more junior - though the job title was explicitly "Senior XXX Lead".

Some years ago, I went to interview (in person) at a big European financial institution. As I got there around lunchtime, I happened to get to the front door at the same time as some employees were returning from lunch who, very kindly, held the door open for me.

I was in their office around their computers, unsupervised and unaccompanied, for 10-15 minutes, enough time to plant some O.MG USB-C cables.

During the interview, I had a chance to talk to the CTO and told them what happened and how I was allowed access in the office, and immediately saw his face change and quickly change topic, and end the interview.

Unsurprisingly, I didn't get the job - I should have probably kept my mouth shut.

One question though, how do you know your feed would kick off the 'real' feed if you pushed to RTMP, does it just take the most recent connection as live? Does the protocol have a mechanism for dealing with multiple people pushing to the same endpoint? There maybe more checking on that endpoint and if course I'm sure most live broadcasters would have a live director to cut any feeds at their end if a dodgy feed popped up too.

A huge vulnerability nonetheless and a great write up!

Love your writing skills as well!

> I closed it immediately. But the damage was done (to my brain).

Laughed so hard when I read this one :D

I'm guessing this is not the first time this happened to them.

The broadcast contribution feeds I’ve seen in the past are MPEG-TS, not via RTMP.

Still a great find.

During COVID, lots of live shows (concerts, etc.) in Japan moved to streaming (and most of them stuck, so thanks to that, lots of large concerts today have real-time streaming, which is great for foreign fans).

Out of 10+ platforms, more than half have vulnerabilities that allow you to access the content freely (sometimes including the rehearsals, because they are also streamed internally), and on a handful, you can access the admin panel and, as the author said, stream whatever you want.

Most of them have been patched over the years (some are just the byproduct of them changing the backend/SaaS provider, though), but there remain some major providers where you can get content for free.

> I did not touch any of these controls. But they were there. Functional.

I really needed to push myself to read because it was very interesting and thank you, for doing the work and sharing.

> Server says "here's everything"

hahahaha

> Hire me (just kidding... unless?)

FIFA is a legendarily awful organization. In my weaker moments reading your piece I thought to myself how nice it would have been if someone more ruthless than you had been made an example of them.

encrypted cookies still work & they're stateless. & yeah you can pass cookies between servers & also server - S.P.A.

to BoBDaHacker - great research but slow down on the a.i writing.

Holy shit, Rickrolling is among the more harmless things you could have done with that.

If this is true, why help them if they do not take their own security seriously, especially if they have vibe-coded their auth backend server?