January 11, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Chess” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 11, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: The Underground Ransomwa...

Network Interference Detection Tool: ooniprobe

OONI, the Open Observatory of Network Interference, is a global observation network which aims is to collect high quality data using open methodologies, using Free and Open Source Software FL/OSS to share observations and data about the various types, methods, and amounts of network tampering in...

Russian Propaganda Talks on Capitol Hill Thrust Cyber Espionage into the Public Eye

Leading tech executives from Google, Facebook, and Twitter returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a second day of testimony as senators from both sides of the aisle took the companies to task for allegedly failing to defuse Russia's attempt to sway American voters ahead of the 2016 presidentia...

Rowhammer Attacks Come to MLC NAND Flash Memory

The Rowhammer attacks developed by Google more than two years ago put the focus on hardware front and center. That research allowed attackers to flip dynamic random access memory DRAM bits in order to induce those memory cells to change their state. Google’s research enabled kernel-level privileg...

Ukrainian Man Arrested, Charged in NotPetya Distribution

The Cyber Police of Ukraine arrested a suspect they allege distributed the destructive NotPetya/ExPetr malware resulting in the infection of 400 computers. NotPetya/ExPetr was the malware behind a massive global cyberattack that took place earlier this year. It infected computers worldwide with...

CVE-2017-7781

An error occurs in the elliptic curve point addition algorithm that uses mixed Jacobian-affine coordinates where it can yield a result "POINTATINFINITY" when it should not. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this to interfere with a connection, resulting in an attacked party computing an...

July 14, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Bastille Day” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! July 14, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: US Voters Consider Russia t...

June 23, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Grizzly Bear” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! June 23, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Top 10 Endpoint Detection a...

NSA Document Outlining Russian Attempts to Hack Voter Rolls

This week brought new public evidence about Russian interference in the 2016 election. On Monday, the Intercept published a top-secret National Security Agency document describing Russian hacking attempts against the US election system. While the attacks seem more exploratory than operational ­--...

Trump Signs Cybersecurity Executive Order

President Trump today signed a long-delayed cybersecurity executive order that prioritizes the protection of federal networks and critical industries, and instructs agency heads to implement the NIST Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. The order was to be signed in late...

Google, Jigsaw Partner on Free Tools to Secure Elections

Alphabet subsidiary Jigsaw announced on Tuesday that it and Google would offer a free suite of security tools aimed at securing political elections. The announcement was fresh off a tense House Intelligence Committee meeting on Monday during which FBI Director James Comey confirmed that the burea...

ooniprobe - Measure Internet Censorship & Speed

Interested in collecting evidence of Internet censorship? Curious about the speed and performance of the network that you are using? By running the tests in this app, you will examine the following: Blocking of websites Presence of systems that could be responsible for censorship and/or...

APT28: At the Center of the Storm

On Jan. 6, 2017, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence released its Intelligence Community Assessment: Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections. Still, questions persist about Russian involvement. Did the Russian government direct the group responsible for the...

Damn Vulnerable Web Sockets: DVWS

Damn Vulnerable Web Sockets Damn Vulnerable Web Sockets DVWS is a vulnerable web application which works on web sockets for client-server communication. The flow of the application is similar to DVWA . You will find more vulnerabilities than the ones listed in the application. Requirements In the...

OONI - Open Observatory of Network Interference

OONI, the Open Observatory of Network Interference, is a global observation network which aims is to collect high quality data using open methodologies, using Free and Open Source Software FL/OSS to share observations and data about the various types, methods, and amounts of network tampering in...

President Obama Orders 'Full Review' of Possible Russian hacking in US Election

In his final month in office, President Barack Obama has ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to conduct a "full review" of pre-election cyber attacks against Democratic Party organizations that many believe affected the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. The United States intelligence...

Nmap OS Identification (NASL wrapper)

This plugin runs nmap to identify the remote Operating System. NOTE: This routine is only started as a last fallback if other more reliable OS detection methods failed. This routine also has a few additional drawbacks: - Depending on the exposed services on the target it might take a considerable...

Wi-Fi Signal Interference Can Leak Your Passwords and Keystrokes

Hackers can steal your sensitive information, such as your Passwords, PINs and Keystrokes, from your phone by observing changes in the wireless signal as you enter them into your smartphones. A group of researchers from the Shanghai Jaio Tong University, the University of South Florida and the...

Election Leaks Failed to Move Needle on Polls

The barrage of information leaks, state-sponsored espionage and hacktivism related to the U.S. presidential election has had a mixed bag of effects on the race and voter confidence. For the most part, attacks against organizations supporting both major political parties, extensive email leaks and...

MIT Researchers Solve the Spectrum Crunch to make Wi-Fi 10 times Faster

While using your cell phone at a massive public event, like a concert, conference, or sporting event, you have probably experienced slow communication, poor performance or slow browsing speeds, as crowds arrive. That's because of ‘Spectrum Crunch’, which means, Interference of WiFi signals with...