InfoSec Week 42, 2018
The Czech Security Intelligence Service (BIS) shuts down Hezbollah servers in the Hezbollah hacking operation. Hackers used female Facebook profiles to trick victims into installing spyware.
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InfoSec Week 41, 2018
Memory corruption bug in WhatsApp's non-WebRTC video conferencing implementation can screw you. Just answering a call from an attacker could completely compromise WhatsApp.
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InfoSec Week 40, 2018
Estonia sues Gemalto for €152M over ID card flaws. According to an article, some keys were NOT generated on a smartcard due to a scaling issue. Well, looks like they are not affected by ROCA vulnerability, just compromised by Gemalto:)
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InfoSec Week 39, 2018
Linux had officially committed to implementing and obeying the Code of Conduct — which is immediately misused to remove top Linux coders. Some of the Linux developers are now threatening to withdraw the license to all of their code.
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InfoSec Week 38, 2018
Purism project introduced their own security token called the Librem Key. They have partnered with the Nitrokey manufacturer, but the firmware provides additional functionality, like a challenge response mode where the key informs you if the bios running on a PC has validated itself to the key.
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InfoSec Week 37, 2018
Tesla model S is using a 40bit challenge response scheme broken back in 2005. Researchers stole a car in ~6 seconds with precomputed tables.
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InfoSec Week 36, 2018
USB media shipped with the Schneider Electric Conext ComBox and Conext Battery Monitor solar products were infected with malware.
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InfoSec Week 35, 2018
Google started selling their Titan Security Key bundle that support FIDO standards for secure authentication. They have written the firmware by themselves, but the price should be lower for this kind of hardware.
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InfoSec Week 34, 2018
If you are running Linux machines in Microsoft Azure, you should disable built-in wa-linux-agent backdoor that enable root access from Azure console.
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InfoSec Week 33, 2018
There is an OpenSSH user enumeration attack against all software versions on all operating systems. It's a timing attack with proof of concept already published.
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InfoSec Week 32, 2018
A Comcast security flaws exposed more than 26 millions of customers’ personal information. Basically, an attacker could spoof IP address using 'X-forwarded-for' header on a Comcast login page and reveal the customer’s location.
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InfoSec Week 31, 2018
Reddit got hacked. According to the investigation, it looks like hackers accessed employees 2FA protected accounts. An attacker 'compromised a few of Reddit's accounts with cloud and source code hosting providers by intercepting SMS 2FA verification codes'.
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