InfoSec Week 25, 2018
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Marcus Brinkmann demonstrated how some configuration options in the GnuPG allow remote attackers to spoof arbitrary signature. He used the embedded “filename” parameter in OpenPGP literal data packets, together with the verbose option set in their gpg.conf file.
https://neopg.io/blog/gpg-signature-spoof/
Tapplock Smart Lock has critical bugs making it a trivial protection. They are using the AES key derived from the MAC address, so anyone with a Bluetooth enabled smartphone can pick up the key upon getting to a smart lock Bluetooth range.
https://latesthackingnews.com/2018/06/16/tapplock-smart-lock-is-having-a-bad-time-two-bugs-reported-in-one-week/
Crooks are injecting credit card stealing backdoor to the config files of a hacked Magento e-commerce platforms. They can reinfect the rest of code base over and over again with the config load.
https://thehackernews.com/2018/06/magento-security-hacking.html
Updated Satori botnet began to perform network wide scan looking for exploitable XiongMai uc-httpd 1.0.0 devices (CVE-2018-10088).
https://blog.netlab.360.com/botnets-never-die-satori-refuses-to-fade-away-en/
Baby Monitors in the USA were hacked via obscure Chinese IoT cloud. The woman from the Facebook post claims that someone controlled the camera remotely and spied on her, possibly listened in to conversations.
https://www.sec-consult.com/en/blog/2018/06/true-story-the-case-of-a-hacked-baby-monitor-gwelltimes-p2p-cloud/
OpenBSD disables Intel’s hyper-threading due to possible exploitable spectre-class bugs in the architecture.
https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes@openbsd.org/msg99141.html
Linux is getting support for in-kernel hibernation encryption. Encrypts disk-image memory, thereby increasing the general security of full-disk encryption on Linux and reducing the attack surface.
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1806.2/03567.html
OTSECA - (ot)her (sec)urity (a)wareness is an open source security auditing tool to search and dump system configuration. It allows you to generate reports in HTML or RAW-HTML formats.
https://github.com/trimstray/otseca