InfoSec Week 35, 2018

Posted Aug 30, 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.
https://store.google.com/us/product/titan_security_key_kit

Interesting three month research on hacking Australian law firms by registering expired domain names. Thousands of emails received with sensitive material.
https://medium.com/@gszathmari/hacking-law-firms-abandoned-domain-name-attack-560979e0b774

Researchers systematically retrieved 3500 AT controlling commands from over 2000 Android smartphone firmware images across 11 vendors and “demonstrated that the AT command interface contains an alarming amount of unconstrained functionality and represents a broad attack surface on Android devices.”
https://atcommands.org/

Fortnite Installer created by Epic Games allowed to install anything on the customer Android phone. An Epic security engineer requested Google to delay public disclosure for the 90 days period, to allow time for the update, but Google refused.
https://m.androidcentral.com/epic-games-first-fortnite-installer-allowed-hackers-download-install-silently

US T-Mobile Database was breached, 2 millions of customers’ data exposed.
https://www.databreachtoday.com/t-mobile-database-breach-exposes-2-million-customers-data-a-11420

Ars Technica published a good introductory review of the WireGuard next generation VPN software.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/08/wireguard-vpn-review-fast-connections-amaze-but-windows-support-needs-to-happen/

WhatsApp has warned users that by using a free backup service offered by Google, messages will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/whatsapp-warns-free-google-drive-backups-are-not-encrypted/

Assured researchers published an article which provides a brief overview of the new TLS 1.3.
https://assured.se/2018/08/29/tls-1-3-in-a-nut-shell/

If you wanted to know how to use PGP in an organization of 200 people, read this blog about OpenPGP key distribution.
They are now turning the lessons learned into an Internet standard.
https://tech.firstlook.media/keylist-rfc-explainer

Mozilla Firefox 62 and newer support a new TLS API for WebExtensions.
There is now a certificate viewer leveraging new API called Certainly Something (Certificate Viewer).
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/certainly-something/

In-depth blog spot by voidsecurity about the VirtualBox code execution vulnerability.
https://www.voidsecurity.in/2018/08/from-compiler-optimization-to-code.html

Mark Ermolov and Maxim Goryachy researchers have published a detailed walk-through for accessing an Intel’s Management Engine (IME) JTAG feature, which provides debugging access to the processor.
https://github.com/ptresearch/IntelTXE-POC