Cryptography

Splitting Cryptographic Key with OpenSSL and Bash

Use split key split with openssl and bash to protect secrets in CI/CD pipeline.

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Commercial Cryptographic Key Management in 2018

Modern key management in a large organization is primarily described by bureaucratic procedures and compliance requirements due to financial liability. No one personnel hold all the keys required for a task. To minimize the need for trust in a day to day operations, the problem is partially solved with the three basic principles - separation of duties, dual control and split knowledge.

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InfoSec Week 8, 2019

Dutch security researcher Victor Gevers found misconfigured MongoDB database containing facial recognition and other sensitive information about the Uyghur Muslim minority in China. Looks like the company behind the database is Chinese surveillance company SenseNets.

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InfoSec Week 7, 2019

Ubiquiti network devices are being remotely exploited, via port 10001 discovery service. Results in loss of device management, also being used as a weak UDP DDoS amplification attack: 56 bytes in, 206 bytes out.

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InfoSec Week 6, 2019

Insurance Company says to the Mondelez customer that the NotPetya ransomware attack was an act of cyber war and therefore not covered by the policy.

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InfoSec Week 3, 2019

35-year-old vulnerability has been discovered in the SCP file transfer utility. According to the advisory impact section, 'Malicious scp server can write arbitrary files to scp target directory, change the target directory permissions and to spoof the client output.'

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InfoSec Week 2, 2019

Personal information of many German politicans were published online. Since then, Police arrested 20 years old suspect.

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InfoSec Week 1, 2019

Let's Encrypt recapitulated the last year in the operation of their ACME based certification authority, and summarized the challenges that they will work on in 2019. They intend to deploy multi-perspective validation, checking multiple distinct Autonomous Systems for domain validation, preventing potential BGP hijacks. They also plan to run own Certificate Transparency (CT) log.

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InfoSec Week 52, 2018

The Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade secrets from US employer, as he prepared to return home. Forensics found deleted research materials not related to his contract on a USB voluntarily provided to a supervisor.

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InfoSec Week 51, 2018

Google Project Zero published a blog about the FunctionSimSearch open-source library which is capable to find similar functions in the assembly. They are using it to detect code statically-linked vulnerable library functions in executables.

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