DtSR Episode 175 - NewsCast for January 5th 2016

Jan 5, 2016

In this episode...

 

Juniper has a backdoor problem

• 2 separate issues, auth bypass & VPN weakness
• backdoor discovered in Juniper devices
• lots of speculation on who put it there, but it was meant to be disguised as ‘debug code’
• enterprise implications - same as before (what's the bigger picture?)
• https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Infocon+Yellow+Juniper+Backdoor+CVE20157755+and+CVE20157756/20521/

Iranians broke into New York dam in 2013 and “had a look around”

• no direct damage done
• US has largest number of ICS connected to Internet
• critical infrastructure is vulnerable, being probed
• this is not a ‘government problem’ - every company has some ICS on their network
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/21/iranian_hackers_target_new_york_dam/

 

Facebook announced it’s dumping Adobe Flash

• is this a bigger deal than it sounds like
• HTML5 has its own vulnerabilities and issues though… right?
• *only* for videos, games still in Flash
• Facebook will work with Adobe (really?) to improve security of Flash
• http://www.scmagazine.com/facebook-ditches-flash-videos-to-boost-security/article/461040/

 

191 Million US voter records found ‘unprotected’ by a researcher

• guy from Texas found the data on an unprotected database
• “Vickery told Databreaches.net he was able to poke around the public-internet-facing database because it is poorly configured: no authentication or password is required to query all 300-plus gigabytes stored within.” ← What the hell?
• legailty and ethics … again … but that aside is this REALLY an issue?
• same person who discovered Hello Kitty leak.. interesting.
• http://www.csoonline.com/article/3017171/security/database-leak-exposes-3-3-million-hello-kitty-fans.html
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/28/security_researcher_spots_191_millionrecord_us_voter_database_online/

 

PayPal rolls out the welcome mat for hackers

• even if you have an OTP key fob, attackers can get into your account
• apparently they use static identifier info, cannot be changed
• this should probably trouble you
• http://boingboing.net/2016/01/03/paypal-rolls-out-the-welcome-m.html

 

PCI Council extends encryption deadline

• good thing, bad thing, or something else?
• http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/interviews/pci-council-extends-encryption-deadline-i-3019