Microsoft Misfires with Meltdown Patch, while WannaCry Pops Up at Boeing

In our weekly roundup of InfoSec happenings, we start, as has often been the case this year, with concerning Meltdown / Spectre news -- this time involving Microsoft -- and also touch on a password hack at Under Armour, a WannaCry infection at Boeing, and a severe Drupal vulnerability. Microsoft...

Boeing production plant hit by malware, apparently WannaCry ransomware

By Waqas The world's largest aerospace company Boeing has been hit by a This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Boeing production plant hit by malware, apparently WannaCry ransomware...

A week in security (November 6 – November 12)

After coming out victorious in a case against PUPs, Malwarebytes CEO Marcin Kleczynski has this to say: We fought for our users and we won. -- Marcin Kleczynski @mkleczynski November 9, 2017 And my, do we feel like champions! You can read more about this here. Last week, we looked into the...

Homeland Security Hackers Remotely Hack Boeing 757

By Waqas For some time now security researchers have talked about critical This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Homeland Security Hackers Remotely Hack Boeing 757...

Boeing Notifies 36,000 Employees Following Breach

A Boeing employee inadvertently leaked the personal information of 36,000 of his co-workers late last year when he emailed a company spreadsheet to his non-Boeing spouse. News of the breach surfaced earlier this month after a letter .PDF from Boeing’s Deputy Chief Privacy Officer Marie Olson, to...

In-Flight Entertainment System Flaws Put Passenger Data at Risk

A simple tap on an in-flight entertainment system touchscreen kicked off an intellectual exercise that resulted in the discovery of a number of firmware vulnerabilities in embedded systems used by at least 13 airlines. The vulnerabilities in the Panasonic Avionics IFE firmware could allow a local...

Hacking Team and Boeing Built Cyber Weaponized Drones to Spy on Targets

The leaked internal emails from the Italian surveillance software company Hacking Team have revealed that the spyware company developed a robotic aircraft designed to attack computers and smartphone devices through Wi-Fi networks. Over a year ago, some security researchers developed a drone calle...

Boeing 787 Generator Control Unit Integer Overflow Vulnerability

The Boeing 787 is a new medium-sized, twin-engine, wide-body, medium- to long-range transport aircraft developed by Boeing, also known as the Dreamliner. The Boeing 787 airliner has an integer overflow vulnerability in the implementation of the Generator Control Unit GCU, where after 248 days of...

Spy Planes Equipped with Dirtbox Devices Collecting Smartphone Data

The U.S. government is reportedly using spy airplanes equipped with special military-grade snooping equipment to eavesdrop on cell phone information from millions of smartphone users in U.S, according to a new report. This little device, nicknamed "Dirtbox", is being used to mimic mobile phone...

BEWARE of new Facebook Malware Claims, 'Malaysia Plane MH370 Has Been Spotted'

Hackers are very smart on gaining from every opportunity they get and this time the lost Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 gave them a chance to hijack, not the plane, but you all sitting over their operating your Facebook account and having an eye on every news related to the Mysterious Malaysian...

Boeing launches Ultra-Secure 'Black' Smartphone that has Self-Destruct Feature

Looking for a Secure Smartphone? World's biggest Aerospace company - Boeing is finally close to the launch of its high-security Android Smartphone, called "Boeing Black H8V-BLK1", primarily designed for secure communication between Governmental agencies and their contractors. Encrypted email,...

Anonymous Knocks CISPA Supporters Offline

The Anonymous Internet collective is claiming responsibility for DDoS attacks that reportedly knocked offline the websites of prominent defense contractor, Boeing, and two trade associations, TechAmerica and USTelecom. The website of TechAmerica remained down Wednesday afternoon. In a phone...

Dongfan "Greg" Chung (Boeing)

Chung, a 72 year old engineer from Orange, California was charged with eight counts of economic espionage in 2008. According to a statement by the U.S. Department of Justice, Chung, a naturalized U.S. citizen, had secret clearance for work on the U.S. Space Shuttle program that he performed as an...

ProSysInfo TFTP server TFTPDWIN 0.4.2 - Universal Remote Buffer Overflow

ProSysInfo TFTP server TFTPDWIN 0.4.2 - Universal Remote Buffer Overflow !/usr/bin/perl ProSysInfo TFTP server TFTPDWIN Greets fly to InTeL. WARNING: Author has no responsibility over the damage you do using this! use IO::Socket; use warnings; use strict; if!$ARGV0 print "x ProSysInfo TFTP server...

ProSysInfo TFTP Server TFTPDWIN 0.4.2 Overflow

!/usr/bin/perl ProSysInfo TFTP server TFTPDWIN Greets fly to InTeL. WARNING: Author has no responsibility over the damage you do using this! use IO::Socket; use warnings; use strict; if!$ARGV0 print "x ProSysInfo TFTP server TFTPDWIN = 0.4.2\n"; print " Universal Remote Buffer Overflow Exploi...

ProSysInfo TFTP server TFTPDWIN 0.4.2 - Universal Remote Buffer Overflow

!/usr/bin/perl ProSysInfo TFTP server TFTPDWIN Greets fly to InTeL. WARNING: Author has no responsibility over the damage you do using this! use IO::Socket; use warnings; use strict; if!$ARGV0 print "x ProSysInfo TFTP server TFTPDWIN = 0.4.2\n"; print " Universal Remote Buffer Overflow...