#TIL that the #IAEA uses something called a „COBRA seal“ to seal relevant objects against manipulation. One type of these seals works by using a multi-core optical cable. When the seal is locked a random number of cores are cut. This creates a unique optical pattern that can be verified simply by shining a light into the cable and can’t be recreated.

The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24204706/marc-andreessen-ben-horowitz-a16z-trump-donations

Do I know anyone with a mail address on a mail server managed by barracuda networks who would help me with something? I'd like to test a few things (just sending you a few test mails and see if they arrive).

Wild, true story from the security awareness and training company KnowBe4 that details how they inadvertently hired a North Korean hacker who was posing as a Western tech worker.

Kudos to them for publishing this. If it can happen to a security awareness company, it can happen to anyone (full disclosure: they've been an advertiser on my site for ages).

https://blog.knowbe4.com/how-a-north-korean-fake-it-worker-tried-to-infiltrate-us

I've published a little blog on binary patching Golang produced assembly to alter the stdlib net/http functionality. #golang and #infosec frens maybe interested! https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/articles/golang-patching

We're proud our testing helps ensure the security of Thinkst's OSS Canary Tokens! As part of their transparency efforts, you can read the results of our latest round of testing here:

https://www.doyensec.com/resources/Doyensec_ThinkstCanaryTokensOSS_Report_Q22024_WithRetesting.pdf

#doyensec #appsec #security #thinkst

[RSS] Micropatches Released for Windows MSHTML Platform Spoofing (CVE-2024-38112)

https://blog.0patch.com/2024/07/micropatches-released-for-windows.html

CISA: CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog
Hot off the press! CISA adds two vulnerabilities to the KEV Catalog:

• CVE-2012-4792 (CVSSv2: 9.3 "high") Microsoft Internet Explorer Use-after-free vulnerability
• CVE-2024-39891 (5.3 medium) Twilio Authy Information Disclosure Vulnerability

cc: @iagox86 h/t: @hrbrmstr

#CISA #KEV #knownexploitedvulnerabilitiescatalog #CVE_2012_4792 #CVE_2024_39891 #eitw #activeexploitation #CVE #vulnerability

CVE-2019-8805: Apple EndpointSecurity framework Privilege Escalation https://blog.securelayer7.net/applied-endpointsecurity-framework-previlege-escalation/

New assessment for topic: CVE-2024-29824

Topic description: "An unspecified SQL Injection vulnerability in Core server of Ivanti EPM 2022 SU5 and prior allows an unauthenticated attacker within the same network to execute arbitrary code. ..."

"Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM) versions 2022 SU5 and prior are vulnerable to SQL injection and a patch has been released, as described in the official [advisory](https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/Security-Advisory-May-2024) and the related [KB article](https://forums.ivanti.com/s/article/KB-Security-Advisory-EPM-May-2024) ..."

Link: https://attackerkb.com/assessments/721f9e58-f1a2-4da1-9bdc-21a2c2e0a139

[RSS] Summercon 2024 Slides - Modern ColdFusion Exploitation and Attack Surface Reduction

https://www.hoyahaxa.com/2024/07/summercon-2024-slides-modern-coldfusion.html

I uploaded the sample files referenced in our IBM i for Hackers document, so anyone can verify and improve on our findings/tools:

https://github.com/silentsignal/SAVF

The repo contains C sources and serialized #IBMi Program Objects. You can use our Ghidra-based tools to dissect the binaries.

Feedback welcome!

New assessment for topic: CVE-2024-34102

Topic description: "Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.7, 2.4.6-p5, 2.4.5-p7, 2.4.4-p8 and earlier are affected by an Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference ('XXE') vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution ..."

"Adobe Commerce, which is based on the Magento PHP suite, is a popular framework for commerce websites ..."

Link: https://attackerkb.com/assessments/d33dff0d-d59a-4d35-ae3b-542784621174

Blog posts should always include a first published date and a last edited date.

Was ILOVEYOU worse than CrowdStrike?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOVEYOU

Looks like more hosts were affected by ILOVEYOU (45 million in the first 24 hours) ... but the damage was somewhat more random because files were overwritten.

And now that there is a well-known CrowdStrike recovery procedure, as long as you follow it, you're okay -- but if you didn't have good backups, files overwritten by ILOVEYOU were unrecoverable.

#CrowdStrike

Any event that makes the front page of a news outlet will be used as a phishing lure.

Any “threat intelligence” that alerts you to this is next to useless.

Email received a few days ago: "We need to know which version of SSH is installed on the server, as we want to ensure it is not vulnerable to external attacks." My response: "Don’t worry, SSH is accessible ONLY via VPN, and I am the only one with access to that VPN—activated only when needed—so there is no way for there to be any issues, regardless of the version used."

Email received this morning: "We’re not interested; you must provide the SSH version installed and, if it's not the latest, ensure us of the update date."
My response: "Sorry, could you explain the rationale? SSH is not exposed, it’s not listening on any public IP."
Their reply: "Provide the version."
My response: "OpenSSH_9.7, LibreSSL 3.9.0, on OpenBSD."
Their reply: "This is not considered secure. It must be OpenSSH_9.2p1 Debian-2+deb12u3."
My response: "It’s not Debian; it’s OpenBSD."
Their reply: "So the systems are insecure."

And they claim to be a cybersecurity company...

#CyberSecurity #SSH #VPN #ITSecurity #SysAdmin #TechSupport #OpenBSD #Debian

Apparently someone decided to rename the Linker properties page to "Librarian" in VS.

I have some optimization ideas for MS HR...

[RSS] You Can't Spell WebRTC without RCE - Part 1

https://margin.re/2024/07/you-cant-spell-webrtc-without-rce-part-1/