Congressional Group Says Encryption Backdoors Are a Bad Idea

The Congressional Encryption Working Group released its year-end report that concluded that encryption backdoors do more harm than good. The 12-page report said that “any measure that weakens encryption works against the national interest.” The bipartisan congressional panel recommended that the...

Auto Backdooring Utility: backdoorme

Auto Backdooring Utility Backdoorme is a powerful utility capable of backdooring Unix machines with a slew of backdoors. Backdoorme uses a familiar metasploit interface with tremendous extensibility.Backdoorme relies on having an existing SSH connection or credentials to the victim, through which...

Sony Closes Backdoors in IP-Enabled Cameras

Sony, in late November, provided a firmware update for a popular IP-enabled camera line used by enterprises and law enforcement alike that closed off remote administration backdoors. The backdoors could be abused to draft these devices into botnets or allow for manipulation of images and...

InPage Zero Day Used in Attacks Against Banks

A zero-day vulnerability in InPage publishing software used primarily in Urdu, Pashto and Arabic-speaking nations has been publicly exploited in attacks against financial institutions and government agencies in the region. While there are more than 10 million InPage users in Pakistan and India...

On PoisonTap, Internet of Things Regulation, and Ransomware

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including this week’s House hearing on the Internet of Things, Samy Kamkar’s PoisonTap tool, and Windows 10’s ransomware protections. Show notes: Regulation May Be Best Answer to IoT Insecurity PoisonTap Steals Cookies, Drops Backdoors on...

PoisonTap Steals Cookies, Drops Backdoors From Password Protected Computers

Even locked, password-protected computers are no rival for Samy Kamkar and his seemingly endless parade of gadgets. His latest, PoisonTap, is a $5 Raspberry Pi Zero device running Node.js that’s retrofitted to emulate an Ethernet device over USB. Assuming a victim has left their web browser open,...

China Passes Cybersecurity Law to Tighten its Control over the Internet

China has long been known for its strict censorship policies, which has already made it difficult for foreign companies to do business in the world's most populous country of more than 1.35 Billion people. Now, the Chinese government has approved a broad new controversial cybersecurity regulation...

D-Link DWR-932B Backdoors / Default WPS PIN

D-Link DWR-932B suffers from backdoor accounts, default WPS PIN, weak WPS PIN generation, and various other bad security practices and issues. Advisory Information Title: Multiple vulnerabilities found in the Dlink DWR-932B backdoor, backdoor accounts, weak WPS, RCE ... Advisory URL:...

l0l - The Exploit Development Kit

l0l a exploit development kit. with C++ language scripting. Yet, are being developed. Then the beta version will be published. Status Shellcodes : 5 Injectors : 0 Encoders : 0 Backdoors : 6 Install - Requirements : g++ and Python. $ make or, l0l.cpp compile the file.. Exp: $ g++ -o l0l l0l.cpp Ru...

ProjectSauron APT On Par With Equation, Flame, Duqu

A state-sponsored APT platform on par with Equation, Flame and Duqu has been used since 2011 to spy on government agencies and other critical industries. Known as ProjectSauron, or Strider, the platform has all the earmarks of advanced attackers who covet stealth, and rely on a mix of zero-day...

NUUO NVRmini2 / NVRsolo / Crystal And NETGEAR ReadyNAS Code Execution

Multiple vulnerabilities in NUUO NVRmini2 / NVRsolo / Crystal devices and NETGEAR ReadyNAS Surveillance application Discovered by Pedro Ribeiro [email protected], Agile Information Security http://www.agileinfosec.co.uk/ ==========================================================================...

Export-Grade Crypto Patching Improves

LAS VEGAS – The FREAK, LOGJAM and DROWN attacks of the last 17 months weren’t just the work of academics and security researchers who found a cool way to unmask encrypted traffic. They were ugly reminders of the Crypto Wars of the 1990s and why export-grade cryptography and intentional encryption...

About Apache Struts 2 S2-0 3 2 vulnerability threat monitoring and emergency disposal of the case Bulletin-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

4 the end of the month, the Apache struts2 S2-0 3 2 remote code execution vulnerability CNVD-2 0 1 6-0 2 5 0 6, The CVE-2 0 1 6-3 0 8 1, hereinafter referred to as S2-0 3 2 vulnerability, the exploit code is disclosed and in a short time spread rapidly. CNVD Secretariat-National Internet emergenc...

Tuto4PC Utilities Silently Install 12M Backdoors, Cisco

Security experts are warning PC users of scareware computer utilities published by the French firm Tuto4PC that secretly bundle adware and spyware. Cisco’s Talos security research team said several of the company’s utilities, including OneSoftPerDay and System Healer, contain Trojans that exhibit...

Platinum APT Group Abuses Windows Hotpatching

An obscure Windows feature known as hotpatching, missing in the OS since the introduction of Windows 8, is a preferred tool used by a resourced attack group called Platinum that was uncovered by Microsoft. The group has carried out targeted attacks in South and Southeast Asia since at least 2009,...

3.2 Million Servers Vulnerable to JBoss Attack

Cisco Talos said on Friday that 3.2 million servers are vulnerable to the JBoss flaw used as the initial point of compromise in the recent SamSam ransomware attacks. Worse, researchers said that thousands of servers have already been backdoored. Hardest hit have been K-12 schools running library...

Researcher Outlines Multiple Vulnerabilities in Quanta Routers

Routers manufactured by Quanta are riddled with critical vulnerabilities–backdoors, a hardcoded SSH key, and remote code execution flaws, to name a few–that won’t be patched because the company considers the product end of life. Researcher Pierre Kim found the flaws and reasons that the flaws are...

Tor: Overreads/overcopies in torsocks

First off, I know torsocks isn't in scope, so I don't expect anything in return for this. I happened to stumble upon this so why not report it. However if you feel generous you're welcome to give me bounty/swag ofcourse :P. Here 16 bytes instead of 4 are copied, thereby copying 12 bytes of...

DROWN Flaw Illustrates Dangers of Intentionally Weak Crypto

Calls for encryption backdoors that date back to the 1990s are coming back to haunt the industry 20 years later with DROWN, security experts say. The flaw that researchers found with DROWN center around the fact that during the so called Crypto Wars of the 1990s President Bill Clinton’s...

Chinese ISPs Caught Injecting Ads and Malware into Web Pages

China has gained a considerable global attention when it comes to their Internet policies in the past years; whether it's introducing its own search engine dubbed "Baidu," Great Firewall of China, its homebrew China Operating System COP and many more. Along with the developments, China has long...