InfoSec Week 4, 2019
Microsoft's mobile Edge browser begins issuing fake news warnings. It is powered by news rating company NewsGuard. It gives you fake news warning for Wikileaks, so decide for yourself.
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Microsoft's mobile Edge browser begins issuing fake news warnings. It is powered by news rating company NewsGuard. It gives you fake news warning for Wikileaks, so decide for yourself.
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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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The academics have mounted a successful GPS spoofing attack against road navigation systems that can trick humans into driving to incorrect locations. The novel part is that they are using real map data to generate plausible malicious instructions.
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A buffer overflow vulnerability in older Starcraft version enabled modders to create new maps, so Blizzard tasked reverse engineer to safely emulate the bug in the newer, fixed version. The author says it all: 'This is a tale about what dedication to backward compatibility implies.'
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Egyptian human rights activists, dissidents, lawyers and journalists targeted by the phishing campaign. Links received by the email lead to a fake login page designed to trick the targets into giving away their Dropbox credentials.
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