Security: Update, User Account Review, Fear-Spreading and IPFire 2.21
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Security updates for Monday
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User Account Review | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure
One of the topics you may not often think of as being all that important to security is user accounts on systems. We spend so much time on other things — like managing firewall rules, system patching, analyzing report data, etc. — that user accounts are often a neglected topic.
At a previous employer, I performed many security-focused audits for organizations needing to meet regulatory compliance. As part of these audits, I would review systems for best practice and general housekeeping. You can tell a lot about an administrator by the state of their environment. Too often I would find accounts that had not logged in for years or may have never logged in. Why do you need those accounts if they’re not being used?
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Brace yourselves: New variant of Mirai takes aim at a new crop of IoT devices [Ed: Install FOSS firmware and brace yourselves for the latest scaremongering from Mr. Goodin (sued for his dramatisation, exaggerations, and distortions)]
A newly discovered variant contains a total of 27 exploits, 11 of which are new to Mirai, researchers with security firm Palo Alto Networks reported in a blog post Monday. Besides demonstrating an attempt to reinvigorate Mirai’s place among powerful botnets, the new exploits signal an attempt to penetrate an arena that's largely new to Mirai. One of the 11 new exploits targets the WePresent WiPG-1000 Wireless Presentation systems, and another exploit targets LG Supersign TVs. Both of these devices are intended for use by businesses, which typically have networks that offer larger amounts of bandwidth than Mirai’s more traditional target of home consumers.
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Routed IPsec VPNs are landing in IPFire 2.21 - Core Update 129
The forthcoming Core Update will have some brilliant changes to our IPsec stack.
These changes were required for a project that Lightning Wire Labs has been doing and are potentially a little bit niche. We have backported these as well from IPFire 3 where this feature is even more advanced and - to me - a lot more exciting, too.
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