A week in security (April 1 – 7)

Last week, Malwarebytes Labs took readers on a brief tour of some of the world's most notable data privacy laws, explored how gamers can protect themselves against cyberthreats, and offered thoughts about the reports that a 23-year-old Chinese woman gained access to President Donald Trump’s...

IoT-Home-Guard - A Tool For Malicious Behavior Detection In IoT Devices

IoT-Home-Guard is a project to help people discover malware in smart home devices. For users the project can help to detect compromised smart home devices. For security researchers it is also useful in network analysis and malicious hehaviors detection. In July 2018 we had completed the first...

Nextcloud: Able to bypass "Device credentials" Lock

Prepare 1. Enable "Device credentials" lock via the settings. I'm using fingerprint in my case 2. Test if this works by closing the app and open it again. 3. If this works close the app again, do a force close to make sure the application is closed. The next steps need to be done quickly right...

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Unsupported Version Detection

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 is running on the remote host. Microsoft ended support for Windows Server 2008 versions lower than Service Pack 2 on 4/9/2011 and all other versions on 1/14/2020. Lack of support implies that no new security patches for the product will be released by the vendor. As ...

Android Gets FIDO2 Certification—Now Supports Secure Passwordless Logins

Great news. If you have already installed the latest update of Google Play Services released earlier today, and your Android device is running Android version 7.0 Nougat or above—Congratulations! Your device is now FIDO2 Certified. Are you thinking… what the heck that actually means? It means,...

Android Gets FIDO2 Certification—Now Supports Secure Passwordless Logins

Great news. If you have already installed the latest update of Google Play Services released earlier today, and your Android device is running Android version 7.0 Nougat or above—Congratulations! Your device is now FIDO2 Certified. Are you thinking… what the heck that actually means? It means,...

Google Ditches Passwords in Latest Android Devices

Half of all Android users can now log into apps and websites on their devices – without having to remember a cumbersome password. On Monday, Google and the Fast IDentity Online FIDO Alliance announced that devices running Android 7 or later are certified by the FIDO2 standard, meaning that users...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affect System x Integrated Management Module (IMM) (CVE-2015-0204, CVE-2014-3570, CVE-2014-3572, CVE-2014-8275)

Summary OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on January 8, 2015 by the OpenSSL Project. This includes "FREAK: Factoring Attack on RSA-EXPORT keys" TLS/SSL client and server vulnerability. OpenSSL is used by System x Integrated Management Module IMM. IMM has addressed the applicable CVEs...

Researchers Release Tool That Finds Vulnerable Robots on the Internet

A team at a robot cybersecurity startup has released a free, open-source tool for information security professionals to help them easily 'footprint' and detect unprotected robots, not only connected to the Internet, but also to the industrial environments where they operate. Dubbed "Aztarna ," th...

A Six Flags Fingerprints Ruling, Supply Chain Hacks, and More Security News This Week

Google's elite security team, police scanner encryption, and more of the week's top security news...

Protection Mechanism Bypass

OpenSSL is vulnerable to protection mechanism bypass. This is because OpenSSL accepts several variations of certificate signature algorithms and signature encodings. It doesn't then enforce a match between the signature algorithm between the signed and unsigned portions of the certificate. This...

CVE-2018-9567

On Pixel devices there is a bug causing verified boot to show the same certificate fingerprint despite using different signing keys. This may lead to local escalation of privilege if people are relying on those fingerprints to determine what version of the OS the device is running, with System...

Privilege escalation

On Pixel devices there is a bug causing verified boot to show the same certificate fingerprint despite using different signing keys. This may lead to local escalation of privilege if people are relying on those fingerprints to determine what version of the OS the device is running, with System...

CVE-2018-9567

On Pixel devices there is a bug causing verified boot to show the same certificate fingerprint despite using different signing keys. This may lead to local escalation of privilege if people are relying on those fingerprints to determine what version of the OS the device is running, with System...

CVE-2018-9567

CVE-2018-9567 affects Pixel devices: a bug in verified boot causes the certificate fingerprint to appear identical despite different signing keys, enabling local privilege escalation with no user interaction. The Android Security Bulletin (Dec 2018) indicates patches at the 2018-12-01 and 2018-12...

Buffer overflow

Possible buffer overflow in Ontario fingerprint code due to lack of input validation for the parameters coming into TZ from HLOS in Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear in versions MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9650, MSM8996AU, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 430, SD 45...

CVE-2018-11264

Possible buffer overflow in Ontario fingerprint code due to lack of input validation for the parameters coming into TZ from HLOS in Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear in versions MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9650, MSM8996AU, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 430, SD 45...

CVE-2018-11264

CVE-2018-11264 involves a buffer overflow in the Ontario fingerprinting code in Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms (Ontario fingerprint code) across multiple Snapdragon variants. The root cause is a lack of input validation for parameters entering TZ from HLOS, leading to a potential buffer overflow. ...

CVE-2018-11264

Possible buffer overflow in Ontario fingerprint code due to lack of input validation for the parameters coming into TZ from HLOS in Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear in versions MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9650, MSM8996AU, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 430, SD 45...

Using Machine Learning to Create Fake Fingerprints

Researchers are able to create fake fingerprints that result in a 20% false-positive rate. The problem is that these sensors obtain only partial images of users' fingerprints -- at the points where they make contact with the scanner. The paper noted that since partial prints are not as distinctiv...