CVE-2018-11518

A vulnerability allows a phreaking attack on HCL legacy IVR systems that do not use VoIP. These IVR systems rely on various frequencies of audio signals; based on the frequency, certain commands and functions are processed. Since these frequencies are accepted within a phone call, an attacker can...

CVE-2018-11518

A vulnerability allows a phreaking attack on HCL legacy IVR systems that do not use VoIP. These IVR systems rely on various frequencies of audio signals; based on the frequency, certain commands and functions are processed. Since these frequencies are accepted within a phone call, an attacker can...

CVE-2018-11518

CVE-2018-11518 describes a phreaking attack on HCL legacy IVR systems that do not use VoIP. The vulnerability arises from handling of audio-frequency signals (DTMF) within a phone call, where an attacker can record the tones and trigger a service activation. The issue is a request-forgery : if th...

Trojan watch

We continue to research how proliferation of IoT devices affects the daily lives of users and their information security. In our previous study, we touched upon ways of intercepting authentication data using single-board microcomputers. This time, we turned out attention to wearable devices:...

Japan's Directorate for Signals Intelligence

The Intercept has a long article on Japan's equivalent of the NSA: the Directorate for Signals Intelligence. Interesting, but nothing really surprising. The directorate has a history that dates back to the 1950s; its role is to eavesdrop on communications. But its operations remain so highly...

Baseball Code

Info on the coded signals used by the Colorado Rockies...

Detecting Drone Surveillance with Traffic Analysis

This is clever: Researchers at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel have built a proof-of-concept system for counter-surveillance against spy drones that demonstrates a clever, if not exactly simple, way to determine whether a certain person or object is under aerial surveillance. They fir...

QuarkslaB Dynamic binary Instrumentation: QBDI

QuarkslaB Dynamic binary Instrumentation QBDI is a modular, cross-platform and cross-architecture DBI framework. It aims to support Linux, macOS, Android, iOS and Windows operating systems running on x86, x86-64, ARM and AArch64 architectures. Information about what is a DBI framework and how QBD...

Smart Devices Can Be Hijacked to Track Your Body Movements And Activities Remotely

If your smartphones, tablets, smart refrigerators, smart TVs and other smart devices are smart enough to make your life easier, their smart behavior could also be leveraged by hackers to steal data, invade your privacy or spy on you, if not secured properly. One such experiment has recently been...

Building a Car Hacking Development Workbench: Part 3

Welcome back to the car hacking development workbench series. In part two we discussed how to read wiring diagrams. In part three, we are going to expand on the workbench by re-engineering circuits and replicate signals used in your vehicle. If this is your first time stumbling across this write...

Google Changes How it Analyzes Misbehaving Mobile Apps

Mobile apps in the Google Play store are categorized by their purpose, i.e., productivity or games. But there is a science to how apps are arranged, in particular around security and privacy features, and especially in holding back those apps whose behaviors pose a risk to mobile users. Google on...

Using Ultrasonic Beacons to Track Users

I've previously written about ad networks using ultrasonic communications to jump from one device to another. The idea is for devices like televisions to play ultrasonic codes in advertisements and for nearby smartphones to detect them. This way the two devices can be linked. Creepy, yes. And als...

Jumping Airgaps with a Laser and a Scanner

Researchers have configured two computers to talk to each other using a laser and a scanner. Scanners work by detecting reflected light on their glass pane. The light creates a charge that the scanner translates into binary, which gets converted into an image. But scanners are sensitive to any...

Brute Force AM/OOK (ie: Garage Doors)

Post Module for HWBridge RFTranscievers. Brute forces AM OOK or raw binary signals. This is a port of the rfpwnon tool by Corey Harding. https://github.com/exploitagency/github-rfpwnon/blob/master/rfpwnon.py This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source:...

Sends Beacons to Scan for Active ZigBee Networks

Post Module to send beacon signals to the broadcast address while channel hopping This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Sends Beacons to Scan for Active ZigBee Networks', 'Description...

UBUNTU-CVE-2010-5328

include/linux/inittask.h in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35 does not prevent signals with a process group ID of zero from reaching the swapper process, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash by leveraging access to this process group...

USN-3116-1: DBus vulnerabilities

It was discovered that DBus incorrectly validated the source of ActivationFailure signals. A local attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. CVE-2015-0245 It was discovered that DBus incorrectly handled certain...

CAN bus analysis tool: Kayak

CAN bus analysis tool Kayak is a application for CAN bus diagnosis and monitoring. Its main goals are a simple interface and platform independence. Kayak is implemented in pure Java and has no platform specific dependencies. It includes a complete CAN bus abstraction model that can be included in...

Hey, Poker Face — This Wi-Fi Router Can Read Your Emotions

Are you good at hiding your feelings? No issues, your Wi-Fi router may soon be able to tell how you feel, even if you have a good poker face. A team of researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory CSAIL have developed a device that can measure human inner emotional...

How to Leak Data From Air Gapped Computers With USB Devices

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of Negev have found a way to take a run-of-the-mill USB device and use it to leak data from an air-gapped computers via RF signals. Academics with the school’s Cyber Security Research Labs division claim they’ve come up with software, dubbed USBee, that can...