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1. Tractorload of John Deere Vulns, T-Mobile Breach, Kalay IoT Hack, & HolesWarm – PSW #707

In the Security News for this week: Buffer overflows galore, how not to do Kerberos, no patches, no problem, all your IoTs belong to Kalay, the old pen test vs. vulnerability scan, application security and why you shouldn't do it on a shoe string budget, vulnerability disclosure miscommunication, tractor loads of vulnerabilities, The HolesWarm.......malware, T-Mobile breach, and All you need is....Love? No, next-generation identity and access management with zero-trust architecture is what you need!!!

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  1. 1. How Much Cybersecurity Do You Need?
    "Organizations also need to take a closer look into their cybersecurity investments to maximize ROI. In addition to strengthening the core through network, infrastructure and application security controls, security orchestration and automation with AI- and ML-based solutions and applying techniques like managed detection and response, next-generation identity and access management and zero-trust architecture will help counter modern-day threats, such as ransomware, more effectively and efficiently." - And there you have! All you need is a next-generation identity and access management solution with some zero-trust architecture and just like that, you have all the security you need! We can all retire now...
  2. 2. Discovering CAPTCHA Protected Phishing Campaigns
  3. 3. T-Mobile: Breach Exposed SSN/DOB of 40M+ People – Krebs on Security
  4. 4. Multiple Flaws Affecting Realtek Wi-Fi SDKs Impact Nearly a Million IoT Devices
    "The security issues are said to have remained untouched in Realtek's codebase for more than a decade" - Lots of buffer overflows. Lots. Sloppy coding, strcpy for the win in the "boa" web server, which I've seen on a few different IoT devices.
  5. 5. Critical Valve Bug Lets Gamers Add Unlimited Funds to Steam Wallets
  6. 6. Kerberos Authentication Spoofing: Don’t Bypass the Spec
    "The Kerberos protocol is solid. It was developed at MIT and provides Single Sign On (SSO) for many large companies." - Okay but define "solid", as in like, it has many security flaws that have been uncovered over the years? Oh, and really try to code to the spec: "Then again, these four security vendors didn’t implement the Client/Server exchange at all. So I can just log in with my fake password to all these systems."
  7. 7. Cisco will not patch critical flaw CVE-2021-34730 in EoF routers
    In this case, Cisco's recommendations are something that should be done anyhow, regardless of patch or not: "The IT giant recommends customers using RV110W Wireless-N VPN Firewalls, RV130 VPN Routers, RV130W Wireless-N Multifunction VPN Routers, and RV215W Wireless-N VPN Routers to disable UPnP on both the LAN and WAN interfaces of their devices."
  8. 8. Hacker Says He Found a ‘Tractorload of Vulnerabilities’ at John Deere
    "John Deere claimed in a statement that "none of the claims—including those identified at DEF CON—have enabled access to customer accounts, agronomic data, dealer accounts, or sensitive personal information. Further, contrary to claims made at DEF CON, none of the issues identified by the security researchers would have affected machines in use. John Deere considers the security of our systems and the data within them a top priority and we work tirelessly to identify and address any misconfigurations as quickly as possible. Deere also recognizes the important role our products play in food security and within the global food supply chain." - Yet the researcher proved otherwise....
  9. 9. Friendly hackers save Ford from potential leak of employee, customer data
  10. 10. Millions of IoT devices, baby monitors open to audio, video snooping
    "Over the course of several months, the researchers developed a fully functional implementation of ThroughTek’s Kalay protocol, which enabled the team to perform key actions on the network, including device discovery, device registration, remote client connections, authentication, and most importantly, process audio and video (“AV”) data. Equally as important as processing AV data, the Kalay protocol also implements remote procedure call (“RPC”) functionality. This varies from device to device but typically is used for device telemetry, firmware updates, and device control." - Sounds like you need to be on the same network as the device, so I thought, but this looks like a publically available network that they were able to interface with the protoctol over the Internet: "If an attacker obtains a UID of a victim Kalay device, they can maliciously register a device with the same UID on the network and cause the Kalay servers to overwrite the existing Kalay device. Once an attacker has maliciously registered a UID, any client connection attempts to access the victim UID will be directed to the attacker."
  11. 11. GitGuardian now available on GitHub Marketplace – Help Net Security
  12. 12. The Onion Patch – Best 15 Dark Web Websites You Shouldn’t Miss
    I thought it was neat to listen to streaming music from the Tor network. Not great quality, and a mixed bag of music, but neat.
  13. 13. Fortinet slams Rapid7 for disclosing vulnerability before end of their 90-day window
    Sounds like some miscommunication: "Rapid7 said they contacted Fortinet multiple times to work on the issue but didn't get a response, so they followed their own disclosure policies when releasing the report." - Begs the question, what do you do when you don't receive a response? How hard do you try to get a response? What if emails go to SPAM? Difficult in larger companies as it can get lost in the shuffle. I think the lesson learned here is to closely monitor disclosure communication, and perhaps have multiple routes for disclosing vulnerabilities, or do a bug bounty so a 3rd party can help ensure clean and reliable communications.
  14. 14. Windows EoP Bug Detailed by Google Project Zero
  15. 15. BadAlloc Flaw Affects BlackBerry QNX Used in Millions of Cars and Medical Devices
  16. 16. Hunting for Evidence of DLL Side-Loading With PowerShell and Sysmon
  17. 17. How to Layer Secure Docker Containers with Hardened Images
    "The containerized CIS Hardened Images are built on provider based images via Docker. Docker, a self-contained software bundle, makes it easy for applications to run on multiple computing environments. CIS provides these containerized CIS Hardened Images in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace."
  18. 18. Secret terrorist watchlist with 2 million records exposed online
  19. 19. Penetration Tests vs Vulnerability Scans?—?Whats the Difference
    Lost me right away: "Penetration testing aka pentesting is the process of finding vulnerabilities in the network and preventing them from seeping into the system." - Nope. And then: "A vulnerability scan is a high-level test that seeks potential vulnerabilities in the system." - Again, not really.
  20. 20. Application Security on a Shoe-String Budget – Beyond Security Blog
    I believe this is really about 1) Create your teams to include devs, ops, and security people 2) Design and threat model with said team for functionality, reliability, performance, and security 3) Use OSS for static analysis, SCA, container scanning 4) Use commercial software for runtime protection.
Professor at Roger Williams University
  1. 1. HolesWarm Malware Exploits Unpatched Windows, Linux Servers.
  2. 2. Unpatched Fortinet Bug Allows Firewall Takeovers
  3. 3. Hacker grabs 600M in cryptocash from blockchain company Poly Network
  4. 4. Video surveillance network hacked by researchers to hijack footage
  5. 5. More than 47Million affected by T-Mobile Breach
  6. 6. How much Cybersecurity can 1.9 Billion Buy?
Sr. InfoSec Consultant at Online Business Sytems

2. Sequoia: A Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Linux’s Filesystem Layer – . Wheel – PSW #707

The Qualys Research Team discovered a size_t-to-int type conversion vulnerability in the Linux Kernel’s filesystem layer affecting most Linux operating systems. Any unprivileged user can gain root privileges on a vulnerable host by exploiting this vulnerability in a default configuration. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows any unprivileged user to gain root privileges on the vulnerable host. Qualys security researchers have been able to independently verify the vulnerability, develop an exploit, and obtain full root privileges on default installations of Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, Ubuntu 21.04, Debian 11, and Fedora 34 Workstation. Other Linux distributions are likely vulnerable and probably exploitable.

Segment Resources:
https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2021/07/20/sequoia-a-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-in-linuxs-filesystem-layer-cve-2021-33909

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Researcher at Qualys

“Wheel” is a member of the Qualys Research Team responsible for finding zero-days.

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Principal Security Researcher at Eclypsium
Retired Senior Cyber Advisor at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

3. Shifting Left Probably Left You Vulnerable, Here’s How To Make it Right – Sonali Shah – PSW #707

Shifting security left is good - but it’s an incomplete strategy that often leads to a false sense of security. In this segment, Sonali will discuss how organizations can reduce their risk of breach by embracing the modern AppSec techniques, that will allow development, operations and security teams to work together in order to efficiently and effectively secure all of their applications.

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A seasoned business and product leader, Sonali Shah brings more than 20 years of B2B SaaS and cybersecurity sector experience, having led product management, marketing, and strategy teams at companies such as HUMAN (formerly White Ops), Veracode, BitSight, and VeriSign, among others. Skilled at leading teams with a proven track record in bringing innovative solutions to market, she will be building on Invicti’s long history of innovation, transforming the application security market, with its enterprise Netsparker and mid-market Acunetix solutions.

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Principal Security Researcher at Eclypsium

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