Sat.Mar 30, 2019 - Fri.Apr 05, 2019

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Adversarial Machine Learning against Tesla's Autopilot

Schneier on Security

Researchers have been able to fool Tesla's autopilot in a variety of ways, including convincing it to drive into oncoming traffic. It requires the placement of stickers on the road. Abstract: Keen Security Lab has maintained the security research work on Tesla vehicle and shared our research results on Black Hat USA 2017 and 2018 in a row. Based on the ROOT privilege of the APE (Tesla Autopilot ECU, software version 18.6.1), we did some further interesting research work on this module.

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Alleged Chief of Romanian ATM Skimming Gang Arrested in Mexico

Krebs on Security

An alleged top boss of a Romanian crime syndicate that U.S. authorities say is responsible for deploying card-skimming devices at Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) throughout North America was arrested in Mexico last week on firearms charges. The arrest comes months after the accused allegedly ordered the execution of a former bodyguard who was trying to help U.S. authorities bring down the group’s lucrative skimming operations.

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MY TAKE: How ‘CASBs’ are evolving to close the security gaps arising from digital transformation

The Last Watchdog

The Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) space is maturing to keep pace with digital transformation. Related: CASBs needed now, more than ever. Caz-bees first took shape as a cottage industry circa 2013 to 2014 in response to a cry for help from companies reeling from new Shadow IT exposures : the risk created by early-adopter employees, quite often the CEO, insisting on using the latest smartphone and Software-as-a-Services tools, without any shred of security vetting.

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Possible Toyota Breach Affects Up to 3.1 Million Customers

Adam Levin

Multiple sales subsidiaries of Toyota Motor Corp. were breached in an apparent cyberattack that may have leaked the personal information of up to 3.1 million people in the Tokyo area. Toyota announced the possible breach as being the result of “unauthorized access” to a network server containing customer information in late March, but explained that they were unable to confirm if any data was actually lost.

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Why Giant Content Libraries Do Nothing for Your Employees’ Cyber Resilience

Many cybersecurity awareness platforms offer massive content libraries, yet they fail to enhance employees’ cyber resilience. Without structured, engaging, and personalized training, employees struggle to retain and apply key cybersecurity principles. Phished.io explains why organizations should focus on interactive, scenario-based learning rather than overwhelming employees with excessive content.

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Former Mozilla CTO Harassed at the US Border

Schneier on Security

This is a pretty awful story of how Andreas Gal, former Mozilla CTO and US citizen, was detained and threatened at the US border. CBP agents demanded that he unlock his phone and computer. Know your rights when you enter the US. The EFF publishes a handy guide. And if you want to encrypt your computer so that you are unable to unlock it on demand, here's mu guide.

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Annual Protest Raises $250K to Cure Krebs

Krebs on Security

For the second year in a row, denizens of a large German-language online forum have donated more than USD $250,000 to cancer research organizations in protest of a story KrebsOnSecurity published in 2018 that unmasked the creators of Coinhive , a now-defunct cryptocurrency mining service that was massively abused by cybercriminals. Krebs is translated as “cancer” in German.

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NEW TECH: CloudKnox takes aim at securing identity privileges for humans — and non-humans

The Last Watchdog

Companies are embracing hybrid cloud deployments like never before, mixing and matching on-premises IT systems with off-premises cloud services. Related: Machine identities present wide open attack vector. To accomplish this, they must grant and manage access privileges to human identities: remote employees, third-party suppliers and far-flung customers.

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Unhackable Cryptography?

Schneier on Security

A recent article overhyped the release of EverCrypt , a cryptography library created using formal methods to prove security against specific attacks. The Quantum magazine article sets off a series of "snake-oil" alarm bells. The author's Github README is more measured and accurate, and illustrates what a cool project this really is. But it's not "hacker-proof cryptographic code.".

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Books Worth Your Time (Q1 2019)

Adam Shostack

Cyber. Making Software “What Really Works, and Why We Believe It” by Andy Oram and Greg Wilson. This collection of essays is a fascinating view into the state of the art in empirical analysis software engineering. Agile Application Security by Laura Bell, Michael Brunton-Spall, Rich Smith and Jim Bird. A really good overview of the many moving pieces in an agile SDL.

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Weekly Update 132

Troy Hunt

From last week's update in Seattle to home to Sydney to back home and a late update (again). But regardless, I'm committed to continuing the cadence of doing these updates each week and 132 of them in, I'm yet to miss a week. This week it's a combination of more of the same (travel, events and data breaches), as well as more thoughts on the future of HIBP and Cloudflare's role when it comes to nasty content online.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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BEST PRACTICES: Rising complexities of provisioning identities has pushed ‘IGA’ to the fore

The Last Watchdog

Identity governance and administration, or IGA , has suddenly become a front-burner matter at many enterprises. Related: Identity governance issues in the age of digital transformation. This is, in large part, because the complexity of business networks continues to escalate at a time when compliance mandates are intensifying. I had the chance at RSA 2019 to visit with Mike Kiser, global strategist at SailPoint , an Austin, TX-based supplier of IGA services to discuss this.

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Hacking Instagram to Get Free Meals in Exchange for Positive Reviews

Schneier on Security

This is a fascinating hack: In today's digital age, a large Instagram audience is considered a valuable currency. I had also heard through the grapevine that I could monetize a large following -- or in my desired case -- use it to have my meals paid for. So I did just that. I created an Instagram page that showcased pictures of New York City's skylines, iconic spots, elegant skyscrapers ­-- you name it.

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Leave Those Numbers for April 1st

Adam Shostack

“90% of attacks start with phishing!*” “Cyber attacks will cost the world 6 trillion by 2020!” We’ve all seen these sorts of numbers from vendors, and in a sense they’re April Fools day numbers: you’d have to be a fool to believe them. But vendors quote insane because there’s no downside and much upside.

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More than 2 million Apache HTTP servers still affected by CVE-2019-0211 flaw

Security Affairs

Security experts at Rapid7 have discovered that over 2 million Apache HTTP servers are still affected by the CVE-2019-0211 critical privilege escalation flaw. An important privilege escalation vulnerability ( CVE-2019-0211 ) affecting the Apache HTTP server could be exploited by users with the right to write and run scripts to gain root on Unix systems via scoreboard manipulation.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Hacker Eva Galperin Has a Plan to Eradicate Stalkerware

WIRED Threat Level

Galperin has already convinced Kaspersky to flag domestic abuse spyware as malware. She expects more to follow.

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Recovering Smartphone Typing from Microphone Sounds

Schneier on Security

Yet another side-channel attack on smartphones: " Hearing your touch: A new acoustic side channel on smartphones ," by Ilia Shumailov, Laurent Simon, Jeff Yan, and Ross Anderson. Abstract: We present the first acoustic side-channel attack that recovers what users type on the virtual keyboard of their touch-screen smartphone or tablet. When a user taps the screen with a finger, the tap generates a sound wave that propagates on the screen surface and in the air.

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Women Now Hold One-Quarter of Cybersecurity Jobs

Dark Reading

New data from ISC(2) shows younger women are making more money than in previous generations in the field - but overall gender pay disparity persists.

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Hackers can add, remove cancer and other illnesses from Computer Tomography scans

Security Affairs

Researchers demonstrated that hackers can modify 3D Computer Tomography scans to add or remove evidence of a serious illness, including cancers. A group of researchers from the Ben-Gurion University and the Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, in Israel, have demonstrated that hackers can modify 3D medical scans to the result of a clinical examination.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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20 Years of STRIDE: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Adam Shostack

“Today, let me contrast two 20-year-old papers on threat modeling. My first paper on this topic, “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” written with Bruce Schneier, analyzed smart-card security. We talked about categories of threats, threat actors, assets — all the usual stuff for a paper of that era. We took the stance that “we experts have thought hard about these problems, and would like to share our results.” Around the same time, on April 1, 1999, Loren Kohnfelder and Pr

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Facebook Data of Millions Exposed in Leaky Datasets

Threatpost

Researchers say that two publicly exposed dataset are leaking Facebook data- from user names to plaintext passwords.

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6 Essential Skills Cybersecurity Pros Need to Develop in 2019

Dark Reading

In a time of disruption in the security and tech worlds, cybersecurity professionals can't afford to become complacent - even in the face of a skills shortage.

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The German chemicals giant Bayer hit by a cyber attack

Security Affairs

The German chemicals giant Bayer confirmed that of a cyber attack, it confirmed the incident but clarified that no data has been stolen. The chemicals giant Bayer is the last victims of a cyber attack, it confirmed the incident, but pointed out the hackers haven’t stolen any data. According to the company, at the beginning of 2018, it detected an intrusion that linked to Winnti threat actors, a group of Chinese APTs belonging to the Beijing intelligence apparatus, Groups under the Winnti u

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The Importance of User Roles and Permissions in Cybersecurity Software

How many people would you trust with your house keys? Chances are, you have a handful of trusted friends and family members who have an emergency copy, but you definitely wouldn’t hand those out too freely. You have stuff that’s worth protecting—and the more people that have access to your belongings, the higher the odds that something will go missing.

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Automation Could Help Organizations Manage Risk: Cybersecurity Research

eSecurity Planet

Automation, orchestration and machine learning technologies could help organizations keep up with cybersecurity threats, according to new research.

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Financial Apps are Ripe for Exploit via Reverse Engineering

Threatpost

White hat hacker reverse engineers financial apps and finds a treasure trove of security issues.

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Phishing Campaign Targeting Verizon Mobile Users

Dark Reading

Lookout Phishing AI, which discovered the attack, says it has been going on since late November.

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NSA releases the source code of the GHIDRA reverse engineering framework

Security Affairs

NSA released the complete source code for its GHIDRA suite , the version 9.0.2 is available on the Agency’s Github repository. In January 2019, the National Security Agency (NSA) announced the release at the RSA Conference of the free reverse engineering framework GHIDRA. GHIDRA is a multi-platform reverse engineering framework that runs on major OSs (Windows, macOS, and Linux).

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The Tumultuous IT Landscape Is Making Hiring More Difficult

After a year of sporadic hiring and uncertain investment areas, tech leaders are scrambling to figure out what’s next. This whitepaper reveals how tech leaders are hiring and investing for the future. Download today to learn more!

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Password checkup: from 0 to 650, 000 users in 20 days

Elie

On February 5th, for Safer Internet Day, our team. launched. its first public-facing system, called. Password Checkup. Password checkup allows users to check, in a privacy-preserving manner, whether their username and password matches one of the more than 4B+ credentials exposed by third-party data breaches of which Google is aware. This launch success vastly exceeded our wildest expectations, with over 650,000 users installing our chrome extension in the first three weeks following the release.

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Third-Party Apps Exposed Over 540 Million Facebook Records

WIRED Threat Level

A cybersecurity firm found that two different third-party Facebook apps left millions of records about users sitting unprotected on Amazon’s servers.

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FireEye Creates Free Attack Toolset for Windows

Dark Reading

The security services company releases a distribution of 140 programs for penetration testers who need to launch attacks and tools from an instance of Windows.

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Crooks use hidden directories of compromised HTTPS sites to deliver malware

Security Affairs

Attackers Store Malware in Hidden Directories of Compromised HTTPS Sites. Security experts at Zscaler discovered that threat actors are using hidden “well-known” directories of HTTPS sites to store and deliver malicious payloads. Crooks are utilizing hidden “well-known” directories of HTTPS sites running WordPress and Joomla websites to store and serve malicious payloads.

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.