InfoSec Week 14, 2018
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There is a critical flaw in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine (CVE-2018-0986). They have used the open source unrar code, changed all the signed ints, breaking the code. Remote SYSTEM memory corruption.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1543&desc=2
Blog by Latacora about the right choices and parameters when dealing with cryptography for backups, communication, authentication, etc. Nice summary, with the explanation and historical references.
http://latacora.singles/2018/04/03/cryptographic-right-answers.html
An Italian football club Lazio has been scammed by a social engineering attack via email. The club sent out transfer bill of €2 million to a fraudster’s bank account instead of the Feyenoord Dutch club.
https://www.hackread.com/phishing-scam-italian-football-club-scammed/
The people behind the Google Wycheproof project, which is testing crypto libraries against known attacks released test vectors for many crypto primitives.
https://github.com/google/wycheproof/tree/master/testvectors
Cloudflare announced consumer DNS service sitting on a 1.1.1.1 address. Supports DNS-over-TLS, also DNS-over-HTTPS.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/
Good explanatory blog about the oblivious DNS and why DNS should not require our trust at all.
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/04/02/a-privacy-preserving-approach-to-dns/
There is a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2018-0492) in the Debian beep package. Yes, beep package for motherboard beeping. Escalation, because setuid + race condition.
https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2018-March/000119.html
LibreSSL 2.7.0 was accepting all invalid host names as correct. A vulnerability was found by Python maintainer Christian Heimes when running tests after porting new LibreSSL to the Python 3.7. Nobody affected.
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2018-April/152624.html
VirusTotal launches a new Android Sandbox system VirusTotal Droidy to help security researchers detect malicious apps based on behavioral analysis.
http://blog.virustotal.com/2018/04/meet-virustotal-droidy-our-new-android.html
MesaLink is a new memory-safe and OpenSSL-compatible TLS library written in Rust.
https://github.com/mesalock-linux/mesalink