Security: Updates, DNS, Breach, Internet Cameras, Cryptoparty Belfast, Intel and More
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Security updates for Tuesday
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The Risks of DNS Hijacking Are Serious and You Should Take Countermeasures
Over the years hackers have hijacked many domain names by manipulating their DNS records to redirect visitors to malicious servers. While there’s no perfect solution to prevent such security breaches, there are actions that domain owners can take to limit the impact of these attacks on their Web services and users.
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Lawyers score big in settlement for Ashley Madison cheating site data breach
The owners of the Ashley Madison cheating-dating website have agreed to pay $11.2 million to settle two dozen data breach lawsuits as a result of a 2015 incident involving as many as 37 million members' personal identifying information being exposed online. The deal (PDF) earmarks up to one-third, or about $3.7 million, for attorneys' fees and costs. An additional $500,000 has been set aside to administer the remaining $7 million earmarked for Ashley Madison members.
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Representative IoT Device: IP Video Camera
These IP cameras are available with full support and regular updates from industrial suppliers at prices ranging from several hundred to a few thousand dollars per camera. They are commonly sold in systems that include cameras, installation, monitoring and recording systems and software, integration, and service and support. There are a few actual manufacturers of the cameras, and many OEMs place their own brand names on the cameras.
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Hack Brief: 'Devil's Ivy' Vulnerability Could Afflict Millions of IoT Devices
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Devil's Ivy Open-Source Flaw Impacts Tens of Millions of IoT Devices
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Nasty Bug Left Thousands of Internet of Things Devices Open to Hackers
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Experts in Lather Over ‘gSOAP’ Security Flaw
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Just because you can, doesn't mean you should
There was a recent Cryptoparty Belfast event that was aimed at a wider audience than usual; rather than concentrating on how to protect ones self on the internet the 3 speakers concentrated more on why you might want to. As seems to be the way these days I was asked to say a few words about the intersection of technology and the law. I think people were most interested in all the gadgets on show at the end, but I hope they got something out of my talk. It was a very high level overview of some of the issues around the Investigatory Powers Act - if you’re familiar with it then I’m not adding anything new here, just trying to provide some sort of details about why it’s a bad thing from both a technological and a legal perspective.
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[Old] "Super Malware" Steals Encryption Keys from Intel SGX Enclaves
In a research paper published at the end of February, a team of five scientists from the Graz University of Technology has described a novel method of leaking data from SGX enclaves, a secure environment created by Intel CPUs for storing sensitive information for each process, such as encryption keys, passwords, and other.
Starting with the Skylake line, Intel introduced a new hardware extension called SGX (Software Guard Extensions) that isolates the CPU memory at the hardware level, creating safe spaces where applications can store information that only they can write or read.
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Avoiding TPM PCR fragility using Secure Boot
In measured boot, each component of the boot process is "measured" (ie, hashed and that hash recorded) in a register in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) build into the system. The TPM has several different registers (Platform Configuration Registers, or PCRs) which are typically used for different purposes - for instance, PCR0 contains measurements of various system firmware components, PCR2 contains any option ROMs, PCR4 contains information about the partition table and the bootloader. The allocation of these is defined by the PC Client working group of the Trusted Computing Group. However, once the boot loader takes over, we're outside the spec[1].
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Open Source Security Podcast: Episode 56 -- Devil's Advocate and other fuzzy topics
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