Flaw is in glibc, which is extensively by all Linux distributions
Patch and reboot using yum or aptitude
The US Army Released DShell, a malware forensics tool
This is an interesting trend where we see tons of formerly secret groups flock to Github. Great to see
Reddit released its first transparency report last week
Says it received 55 requests for user information
Says it complied with 64% of state and federal requests
Says it received 218 requests for content removal, and complied with 31 percent of those
I am pleased to see them releasing these numbers, and I hope more organizations do the same
The GHCQ was using a program called BADASS to collect data leaked by games such as Angry Birds
Luckily it only affected the 11 people still playing that game
Russian dating site, Topface, got hacked for 20 million usernames
The FBI busted up a Tom Clancy book plot in New York City
The plan was to get information about wall street trading algorithms and hopefully destabilize the markets
All they managed to do was embarrass themselves by commenting on how they couldn’t recruit young women
China is demanding to be able to build backdoors into any code sold to its banking sector
Some people call this news, but with China we just call this Wednesday
Apple released a Yosemite update that fixed Thunderstrike, among other things
Anonymous and Lizard Squad are going after each other
Anonymous is the famous hacking group known for all sorts of things
Lizard Squad is known for taking down the XBox and Playstation networks around Christmas time
Anonymous DDoS’d the Lizard Squad website, and then Twitter suspended a couple of their handles
Interesting to see these groups going after each other
BMW and the internet of things is in the news, with BMW owners receiving an automatic push to around 2 million cars
A vulnerability was present that could allow attacks to spoof cell towers and possibly control onboard systems
BMW pushed a patch that ensures all such communications go over HTTPS
It’s interesting that, like printers, cars are likely to become a primary IoT platform just because there are so many of them
The key is to figure out what normal things exist in the world today en mass, and then imagine those things being connected
Printers, cars, furniture, clothing, etc. It’s the regular stuff that makes it interesting because of how much attack surface they represent, and how prevalent the perspective they’ll offer into our daily lives
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Notes
Intro is from Zomby. The song is ‘Orion’, and it’s from the ‘With Love’ album. Highly recommended if you like chill EDM.
