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ENCRYPT Act of 2016 — Proposed Bill Restricts States to Ban Encryption

The last year's ISIS-linked terror attacks in Paris and California has sparked debate on Encryption, and the intelligent agencies started reviving their efforts to weaken encryption on various encrypted products and services. But, there is some Good News! California Congressman and Texas Republic...

Servision HVG Hardcoded Credentials

Hello... Over a year ago I disclosed several vulnerabilities in Servision HVG network video recording devices. CVE-2015-0929 and CVE-2015-0930. https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/522460 Since it's been a while now, and hardcoded backdoor passwords in "security" devices are the current hotness...

A Backdoor in Socat? Going Dark, IoT, and Previewing SAS 2016

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including internet-connected teddy bears, the latest on the Going Dark debate, and whether or not there’s a backdoor in Socat. They also preview next week’s Security Analyst Summit in Tenerife, Spain. Download:...

Hacking Smartphones Running on MediaTek Processors

A dangerous backdoor has been discovered in the MediaTek processor that could be exploited to hack Android devices remotely. MediaTek is a Taiwan-based hardware company that manufacture hardware chips and processor used in the smartphones and tablets. The backdoor was discovered by security...

On BlackEnergy, Ransomware Hitting an Israeli Energy Consortium, Amazon as a CA, and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the latest on the BlackEnergy APT Group, Amazon getting into the SSL certificate game, and government agencies being told to audit their systems for the Juniper backdoor. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapJanuary292016.mp3 Music by Chr...

PayPal Java Serialization Vulnerability

A Java serialization vulnerability disclosed more than a year ago figured to have a long shelf life. It lived in popular Java application development frameworks such as Apache Commons Collections—where it’s been patched—and not to mention widely deployed application servers such as Oracle WebLogi...

Scarlet Mimic Behind Espionage Campaign Against Tibetan, Uyghur Activists

Researchers believe a single group is responsible for a series of attacks over the years to spy on Tibetan and Uyghur activists. For four years the group has used a cornucopia of spearphishing emails, a watering hole attack, and a backdoor Trojan to carry out espionage. Dubbed Scarlet Mimic, the...

FortiOS Fortimanager_Access SSH account backdoor

Added: 01/25/2016 CVE: CVE-2016-1909 Background FortiOS is the operating system used by FortiGate network security appliances. Problem An undocumented account can be used to gain unauthorized access to the appliance. Resolution Upgrade to FortiOS 4.1.11, 4.2.16, 4.3.17, 5.0.8, 5.2.0, 5.4.0, or...

FortiOS Fortimanager_Access SSH account backdoor

Added: 01/25/2016 CVE: CVE-2016-1909 Background FortiOS is the operating system used by FortiGate network security appliances. Problem An undocumented account can be used to gain unauthorized access to the appliance. Resolution Upgrade to FortiOS 4.1.11, 4.2.16, 4.3.17, 5.0.8, 5.2.0, 5.4.0, or...

FortiOS Fortimanager_Access SSH account backdoor

Added: 01/25/2016 CVE: CVE-2016-1909 Background FortiOS is the operating system used by FortiGate network security appliances. Problem An undocumented account can be used to gain unauthorized access to the appliance. Resolution Upgrade to FortiOS 4.1.11, 4.2.16, 4.3.17, 5.0.8, 5.2.0, 5.4.0, or...

FortiOS Fortimanager_Access SSH account backdoor

Added: 01/25/2016 CVE: CVE-2016-1909 Background FortiOS is the operating system used by FortiGate network security appliances. Problem An undocumented account can be used to gain unauthorized access to the appliance. Resolution Upgrade to FortiOS 4.1.11, 4.2.16, 4.3.17, 5.0.8, 5.2.0, 5.4.0, or...

HARMAN AMX Deliberate Backdoor SEC Consult

AMX, a provider of audio-visual conferencing gear used in sensitive government and military locations, has removed a “deliberate” backdoor in one of its central controller system products. New firmware for the AMX NX-1200 was made available Thursday, removing an administrative account that was...

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook Discuss the OpenSSH Patch, the Silverlight Zero Day, and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the week in news, including a critical flaw patched by OpenSSH, the curious tale behind a Silverlight zero day, and how to turn a hacked webcam into a backdoor. Download: newswrap01-08-16.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Advantech EKI Vulnerable to Bypass, Possible Backdoor

Researchers have uncovered yet another issue–and potential backdoor–in Advantech’s beleaguered EKI-1322 serial device server. The Dropbear SSH daemon associated with the server, because of heavy modifications, fails to enforce authentication. This makes it so any user who wants to bypass...

Fortinet SSH back door further using the method-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

How to use this SSH Backdoor into the network? Well this is what this article is going to speak something. This Backdoor access to the firewall is the root, that is, all firewall operation we can do, here we use a firewall a vpn service to access to the internal network, so for further penetratio...

Fortinet(FortiGate)suspected the presence of the SSH Backdoor influence 4. 0 to 5.0.7 version-bug warning-the black bar safety net

Overview 1 On 1 2 May, twitter user@esizkur published information that the Fortigate exist ssh back door, the impact of the version from 4. 0 to 5. 0. 7, and in the link given in the attached full attack using the code. According to the disclosure of information display, the attacker can use this...

SSH Authentication Backdoor Vulnerability in Fortigate Firewalls

FortiGate Fita Firewall is a network firewall product from Fortinet Fita for defense against attacks such as network and malicious code at the network and content layers. Fortigate Firewall has an SSH authentication backdoor vulnerability. FortiGate firewall FortimanagerAccess user's password is...

Someone Just Leaked Hard-Coded Password Backdoor for Fortinet Firewalls

Are millions of enterprise users, who rely on the next-generation firewalls for protection, actually protected from hackers? Probably Not. Just less than a month after an unauthorized backdoor found in Juniper Networks firewalls, an anonymous security researcher has discovered highly suspicious...

D-Link Webcam Hack Turns IoT Device into Backdoor

Connecting a webcam to your home or office network might seem like a harmless thing, but researchers have figured out how to turn that connected device into a backdoor. Researchers at Vectra Networks today released a report demonstrating how a $30 D-Link webcam can be abused by attackers and turn...