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.
https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/fast-furious-and-insecure-passive-keyless-entry-and-start-in-modern-supercars/

Zerodium exploit acquisition program published a serious Tor Browser 7.x vulnerability leading to a full bypass of Tor / NoScript ‘Safest’ security level which is supposed to block all javascript.
This kind of bug is an law enforcement dream.
https://twitter.com/Zerodium/status/1039127214602641409

Very interesting read from Troy Hunt on the effectiveness of negative media coverage and shaming of bad security.
https://www.troyhunt.com/the-effectiveness-of-publicly-shaming-bad-security/

Researchers say that the developers of Adware Doctor, the fourth highest ranking paid app in the Mac App Store, have found a way to bypass Apple restrictions and sends the browsing history of its users to a server in China. Apple already removed the application from the Mac Store.
https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x37.html

Apple has also removed most of the popular security applications offered by cyber-security vendor Trend Micro from its official Mac App Store after they were caught stealing users’ sensitive data without their consent.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/trend-micro-apps-leak-user-data-removed-from-mac-app-store/

European Court of Human Rights rules that GCHQ Data collection violates the human rights charter.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/13/gchq-data-collection-violated-human-rights-strasbourg-court-rules

The Iran government, at least since 2016, is is spying on its citizens, Kurdish and Turkish natives, and ISIS supporters, using mobile applications with a malware.
The operation has been named Domestic Kitten.
https://research.checkpoint.com/domestic-kitten-an-iranian-surveillance-operation/

Researchers introduced previously overlooked side-channel attack vector called Nemesis that abuses the CPU’s interrupt mechanism to leak microarchitectural instruction timings from enclaved execution environments such as Intel SGX, Sancus, and TrustLite.
https://github.com/jovanbulck/nemesis

India’s controversial Aadhaar identity database software was hacked, ID database compromised.
The vulnerability could allow someone to circumvent security measures in the Aadhaar software, and create new entries.
https://www.huffingtonpost.in/2018/09/11/uidai-s-aadhaar-software-hacked-id-database-compromised-experts-confirm_a_23522472

Criminals are faking Google Analytics script to steal credential and stay under the radar.
https://gwillem.gitlab.io/2018/09/06/fake-google-analytics-malware/

The OpenSSL team released version 1.1.1. There are a lots of new features like TLS 1.3 support, side-channel hardening, new RNG, SHA3, Ed25519 support.
https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2018/09/11/release111/