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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5715 on: July 23, 2018, 02:23:08 PM »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5716 on: July 25, 2018, 06:04:32 AM »
Vulnerability Note VU#304725 - Bluetooth implementations may not sufficiently validate elliptic curve parameters during Diffie-Hellman key exchange
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/304725
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5717 on: July 26, 2018, 06:11:38 AM »
Scam alert! Don’t fall for this webcam extortion ploy
https://blog.avast.com/scam-alert-dont-fall-for-extortion-ploy
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5718 on: July 26, 2018, 10:16:43 AM »
Scam alert! Don’t fall for this webcam extortion ploy
https://blog.avast.com/scam-alert-dont-fall-for-extortion-ploy

Ha, just like those that have been appearing in the forums.  I just wonder if these hadn't initiated the blog article.
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5719 on: July 27, 2018, 05:56:03 AM »
Vulnerability Note VU#304725 - Bluetooth implementations may not sufficiently validate elliptic curve parameters during Diffie-Hellman key exchange
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/304725
Bluetooth flaw allows man-in-the-middle attacks
https://blog.avast.com/bluetooth-security-flaw
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5720 on: July 27, 2018, 11:01:43 AM »
Ha der Asyn,

This just after we had KRACK and BlueBorn on android.
But there has been security problems since the introduction of King Harald Bluetooth protocol, so since 1989.

Most vulnerable Bluetooth is at installing a new Bluetooth device during the so-called "pairing".
Read: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-ways-bluetooth-device-security-risk/
Read: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/projects/2003-04/wireless-computing/sec_bluetooth.shtml
For encryption glitches: http://colinoflynn.com/2016/11/philips-hue-aes-ccm-and-more/

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5721 on: July 30, 2018, 05:58:54 PM »
A malvertising campaign on thousands of WordPress websites:
https://research.checkpoint.com/malvertising-campaign-based-secrets-lies/
And again redirects to AdsTerra seem to be involved.

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5722 on: July 31, 2018, 03:25:45 PM »
The Need for Managed Detection and Response: Persistent and Prevalent Threats in North America’s Security Landscape
https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/the-need-for-managed-detection-and-response-persistent-and-prevalent-threats-in-north-americas-security-landscape/



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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5723 on: July 31, 2018, 03:31:24 PM »
The Need for Managed Detection and Response: Persistent and Prevalent Threats in North America’s Security Landscape
https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/the-need-for-managed-detection-and-response-persistent-and-prevalent-threats-in-north-americas-security-landscape/
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5724 on: August 01, 2018, 06:16:40 AM »
A malvertising campaign on thousands of WordPress websites:
https://research.checkpoint.com/malvertising-campaign-based-secrets-lies/
And again redirects to AdsTerra seem to be involved.

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5725 on: August 02, 2018, 11:52:06 AM »
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5726 on: August 02, 2018, 04:37:36 PM »
Hi Asyn,

Various ways the cybercriminals could have hacked their criminal way in:
1. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3q7mz/hacker-allegedly-stole-millions-bitcoin-sim-swapping
2. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5bpg7/sim-hijacking-t-mobile-stories
Weaknesses of SS7: 3. https://secure-voice.com/ss7_attacks/
2 second factor authentication could be protocol-dependant: 4. https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html#out-of-band
Krebs also wrote on it: 5. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/08/reddit-breach-highlights-limits-of-sms-based-authentication/
Way to perform this 6. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/19/ss7-hack-explained-mobile-phone-vulnerability-snooping-texts-calls.

Question of malware installed on the device or many firms will send out SMS through an external party, that delivers it again to a mobile network. The connection to that external 3rd party could be simply hacked  than the protocol itself (through technology and also via an inside job for instance). Reddit will now use two factor tokenization authentication, because once bitten means now twice shy. ::)  :o

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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5727 on: August 05, 2018, 06:49:54 PM »
Still too many (big) websites, that fall victim to this threat, SQL-injection:
https://codecurmudgeon.com/wp/sql-injection-hall-of-shame/

Examples from main CMS softwares, based on PHP, WordPress & Drupal - update to most recent versions
Latest vulnerability caused WP and Drupal to update:
https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2018-14773-remove-support-for-legacy-and-risky-http-headers
Re: https://framework.zend.com/security/advisory/ZF2018-01

For those unwise that know such CMS to be insecure by design,
and that do not wanna update automatically, put this inside your wp-config.php  ;)  ::)

// Disable all automatic updates
define( 'AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED', true );
define( 'WP_AUTO_UPDATE_CORE', false );
define( 'DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true );
define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true);  :o


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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5728 on: August 07, 2018, 07:46:44 AM »
HPSBHF03589 rev. 2 - HP Ink Printers Remote Code Execution
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c06097712
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Re: SECURITY WARNINGS & Notices - Please post them here
« Reply #5729 on: August 16, 2018, 06:34:12 AM »
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