YT$AW: FBI Cleans Up Exchange Servers, NSA Tips Microsoft 4 More Bugs - Security Boulevard

Feds Fix Fails Your tax dollars at work: The FBI and NSA have been helping fix the mess caused by the recent Microsoft Exchange hacking, and trying to prevent a further round of it.

“We’re from the government, and we’re here to help.” In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we’re careful what we wish for: https://t.co/0Oh8fWXdLe

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) April 14, 2021

Son of Stuxnet? Iran Nuke Site Hacked ‘by Israel’ (Again) - Security Boulevard

Crystal Ball ain’t so Crystal Clear: Iran’s Nantaz nuclear centrifuge facility went dark yesterday. I can’t stand it—I know you planned it.

But something doesn’t add up. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we can’t stand rocking when I’m in here: https://t.co/ZAX79I2d8P

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) April 12, 2021

Facebook Sucks: Huge 500M-User Breach ‘Is Your Fault’ - Security Boulevard

GDPR: Coming for Mark’s Money: Last week’s revelation of a half-billion-user leak is still reverberating around the news cycle. Despite Facebook’s attempts to make it go away, new inconvenient truths keep appearing.

This is bad. I can’t watch. But I can’t *not* watch. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we break out the jumbo bag of popcorn: https://t.co/k36bF45QZy

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) April 8, 2021

Cryptominers flooding GitHub—and other cloudy dev services - TechBeacon

“This is why we can’t have nice things.” Owners of public GitHub projects have been noticing weird stuff recently: Random users are forking repos, then pull-requesting a change that includes an obfuscated GitHub Action.

So there isn’t much an owner can do—other than disable the #GitHubActions feature.

In this week’s #SecurityBlogwatch at @TechBeaconCom, we watch @GitHubSecurity play Whac-A-Mole: https://t.co/6LeTpyvr40

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) April 8, 2021

Apple Fiddles While App Store Burns: $1M Bitcoin Scam FAIL - Security Boulevard

Tim’s Security Halo Slips: Phillipe Christodoulou got ripped off to the tune of more than a million dollars. An iPhone app stole 17.1 bitcoins from his Trezor hardware wallet.

Are you serious? Deadly. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we learn valuable lessons: https://t.co/6GDEr2mOH7

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) April 5, 2021

Ubiquiti Accused of Lying to Help Stock Price - Security Boulevard

UI PR FAIL: Ubiquiti disclosed a breach in January, implying it was the fault of a “third party.” But this week, an insider says the company lied: “It was catastrophically worse,” said the anonymous source.

Oh what a tangled web … was allegedly woven. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we #2FA our @LastPass: https://t.co/BZ5h9v3BEZ

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) April 1, 2021

PHP backdoored via Git hack: It’s no joke, so don't be a fool - TechBeacon

PHP Group will close its doors. The foolish moral of the story: How much of your infrastructure is built on badly funded open-source projects?

Like many such projects, @official_PHP runs on a shoestring, yet it’s critical infrastructure around the world. In this week’s #SecurityBlogwatch at @TechBeaconCom, we’re never gonna give you up: https://t.co/dHnmf94EJF

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) April 1, 2021

SolarWinds Hack: U.S. Govt Failure is Deeply Worrying - Security Boulevard

Your Tax Dollars at Work: The U.S. government is doing a piss-poor job of protecting Americans from foreign hackers. That’s the eye-catching conclusion made by a pair of Associated Press scribblers this week.

So say secret sources within the government. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we wonder what’s next: https://t.co/yhSShWodWn

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) March 30, 2021

Alan Turing, WWII Cryptanalyst and Computer Pioneer, on New £50 Note - Security Boulevard

FAQ: About $69. The new 50 pound #banknote honors #AlanTuring. Breaker of Nazi #encryption, a father of computing and #AI pioneer, he’s immortalized on the latest plastic frogskin for England, Wales and Northern Ireland (Scotland issues its own fiat currency).

He was crucial to the “#Ultra” work at @BletchleyPark—widely credited as shortening the war by literally years and saving the lives of millions. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we look forward to spending it: https://t.co/0DbxcjgdH7

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) March 26, 2021

Dark patterns outlawed in Californian data-sale opt-outs - TechBeacon

California has added new regulations to the CCPA—the state’s Consumer Privacy Act. It now prohibits dark patterns that prevent users opting out of having their personal data sold.

But will the tweaked law work? Opinions are divided—and in #SecurityBlogwatch at @TechBeaconCom, that’s exactly how we like it: https://t.co/lvFcWhhiwQ

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) March 25, 2021

Biden ‘Will Cyberattack Putin’ (Because SolarWinds) - Security Boulevard

MAD World: White House sources confirm that President Joe Biden has authorized retaliation against the Russian government for the recent hacking attributed to Russia. No word of when nor how, but it’s said to be “devastating.”

Where’s Dr. Strangelove when you need him?

In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we duck and cover: https://t.co/vqXY4hgatK

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) March 23, 2021

Dirt Cheap DDoS for Hire, via D/TLS Amplification - Security Boulevard

Dirty Deeds: DDoS D/TLS — A new way of sending powerful denial of service traffic emerged this week. Malefactors are now misusing servers that talk Datagram Transport Layer Security (D/TLS).

This possibly includes Sony @PlayStation, whose @LittleBigPlanet service has been AWOL for a week. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we ask the question: https://t.co/Ae2q2Eur6m

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) March 19, 2021

Another reason to stop SMS 2FA—think about this - TechBeacon

NNID abuse in NANP: SMS as a second factor in 2FA/MFA is a bad idea. Really bad. But you’ve heard me say so many, many, many times.

If you didn’t act last time, I’m sure you will now.

In this week’s #SecurityBlogwatch at @TechBeaconCom, what’s old is new again: https://t.co/aXmNOfVApp

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) March 18, 2021

Hacker Site Hacked: WeLeakInfo Leaks Info - Security Boulevard

Blowback Karma

The deed was done by logging into the original @Stripe account used to process the site payments.

In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we get all the Schadenfreude feels: https://t.co/PwYXTcijAf

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) March 16, 2021

150,000 Verkada Cams Hacked, but it Gets Worse - Security Boulevard

After Tuesday’s horrifying news of the @VerkadaHQ data breach, now we learn that countless employees and interns routinely had full access to customers’ video feeds.😱 “Super admin” access was often abused, with no effective auditing, sources say.🧐

It’s the same old story, with the same old lessons that never get learned.🥱

In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we wax pedagogical: https://t.co/HJiou8MLqu

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) March 12, 2021

Intel’s fully homomorphic encryption chip: Big science—bigger wait - TechBeacon

What if a public cloud could process encrypted data without knowing the #encryption key? That’s the “data-in-use encryption” problem. And it’s a hard one.

What if you could make it 10,000 times faster? @Intel thinks it can, by implementing it in dedicated hardware.

In this week’s #SecurityBlogwatch at @TechBeaconCom, we fry the fish to complement the chips: https://t.co/rlbs18LmQ6

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) March 11, 2021

Huge Fallout from Microsoft Incompetence: Let’s Exchange Exchange - Security Boulevard

Nuclear Option: Drop Microsoft Email

In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we watch Redmond reap the whirlwind: https://t.co/xCqVSPL3mV

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) March 9, 2021

Chinese Exchange Hack: At Best, Microsoft is Incompetent - Security Boulevard

At Worst, Microsoft is Manipulative

Some suspect it’s a sneaky way to encourage customers to dump on-prem Exchange and use #Office365 instead. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we yell at Redmond: https://t.co/D2blDx8XeC

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) March 4, 2021

Spectre returns to haunt us: Exploit hides in plain sight - TechBeacon

Specter of Spectre: scary

But all might not be as it seems. In this week’s #SecurityBlogwatch at @TechBeaconCom, we learn the lessons, regardless: https://t.co/bfSSHZeH6a

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) March 4, 2021

Unknown Hacker Grabs Gab’s Data, DDoSecrets Doesn’t Leak it - Security Boulevard

The Gift that Keeps on Giving

Is this the end for Gab? In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we take the red-eye: https://t.co/fKxerT9aUY

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) March 2, 2021

‘Dangerous’ RCE in VMware: Patch, or the Puppy Gets It

Music of the vSpheres

And while you’re at it, why are you exposing unhardened admin tools to the internet? In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we … *squirrel* https://t.co/VJT1Kuo04E

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) February 26, 2021

China stole NSA zero day—4+ years before Shadow Brokers leak - TechBeacon

APT31 vs. S32: FIGHT!

Too much alphanumeric soup? In this week’s #SecurityBlogwatch at @TechBeaconCom, all will become clear: https://t.co/GfhJWXEDkG

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) February 25, 2021

SolarWinds Hack: ‘All is Well,’ Microsoft Shrugs - Security Boulevard

“Trust Us (Except Don’t)”

This is all a bit too neat and tidy for my liking. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we check under the rug: https://t.co/7CvuWztWms

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) February 19, 2021

Oracle is Said to Help China Find Dissidents and Jail Minorities - Security Boulevard

When Larry Met 习

But is there a There there? In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we dig in: https://t.co/Krzffz4jZb

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) February 18, 2021

Lesson from supply chain attacks: Beware 'dependency confusion' - TechBeacon

After Alex Birsan’s $130,000 bug-bounty haul last week, hundreds of bogus npm packages have popped up out of nowhere. They appear to have been published by copycat researchers—some of whom have less-than-pure intentions.

The moral of the story? Make sure the code you’re importing really is the code you think you’re importing.

And, of course, that means he was running his code on other people’s networks. In this week’s #SecurityBlogwatch at @TechBeaconCom, we get lost: https://t.co/r8SepQEDlY

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) February 18, 2021

Internal Leak of 4,887 Users: Yandex Employee Fate Unknown - Security Boulevard

$YNDX Stays Schtum

No word on what’s happened to the scrote. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we visualize them chopped up and hidden in matryoshka dolls: https://t.co/C37YigOSXu

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) February 15, 2021

Hackers Sell ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Data and Source for Millions - Security Boulevard

CDPR PR FAIL

What would Keanu do? In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we take the #RedPill: https://t.co/zNEcklrmnH

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) February 12, 2021

There are no good app stores. Not iOS nor Android. Change my mind - TechBeacon

The moral of the story? Watch out for scam clones of your app, and for bad reviews targeting similarly named apps.

It’s all about the mighty dollar. In this week’s #SecurityBlogwatch at @TechBeaconCom, we follow the money: https://t.co/hpkpkK8EKs

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) February 11, 2021

Water Supply Poisoned by Hacker in Oldsmar, Fla. - Security Boulevard

TeamViewer Vulnerability Probed

It’s another reminder of the risks of putting #SCADA/#ICS systems on the internet. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we crack open a delicious Évian: https://t.co/wIAhLbkWrk

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) February 9, 2021

The SolarWinds Story Keeps Getting Worse: China Too? - Security Boulevard

Time to Ring the Changes?

And to top it off, yet more serious bugs in SolarWinds’ code have been disclosed—and one of them is an absolute doozy. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we don’t know whether to laugh or cry: https://t.co/bACUdgjg5I

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) February 4, 2021

Stolen: perl.com and other domains—was Web.com socially engineered? - TechBeacon

“How you dune?”

Hopefully perl[.]com will be back quicker than that. In this week’s #SecurityBlogwatch at @TechBeaconCom, we sudo vi /etc/hosts: https://t.co/gN5x82YLi6

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) February 4, 2021

Bad Security Bug in GnuPG: C Language Blamed (Yet Again) - Security Boulevard

Rabbits, White Rabbits

Is it the fault of the programming language, C? Or is it just bad design? In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we fight the good fight: https://t.co/RI4VEnzMgT

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) February 1, 2021

BlastDoor: iOS 14’s Shield Over Zero-Click Attacks - Security Boulevard

Talk Nerdy to Me

Let’s dig in. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we get a bit nerdy for a Friday: https://t.co/ORJeXV6aYI

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) January 29, 2021

This is HUGE: Cops Nuke Emotet Crimeware C2 - Security Boulevard

Hey. Where’d Heodo Go?

Don’t “bug” me. I know: They talk funny Over There. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we buzz off: https://t.co/1n3zrnDhTL

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) January 28, 2021

APT team attacks white hats: Google fingers North Korea - TechBeacon

The moral of the story?
Social engineering isn’t only for normies. Whether you’re an IT puke, an agile Dev(Sec)Ops sprinter, or a 1337 haxor: Question everything.

And there are lessons for all of us. In this week’s #SecurityBlogwatch at @TechBeaconCom, let’s be careful out there: https://t.co/9ArSgksyf0

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) January 28, 2021

ADT Installer Hacks Home Cams for Sexual Thrills - Security Boulevard

Deep in the Heart of Texas

But it took at least FOUR YEARS for @ADT to spot its employee’s naughtiness. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, let’s see if he likes his #privacy invaded (in jail): https://t.co/HZy3XaOUlx

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) January 27, 2021

FBI to Investigate Parler, New Russian Host will be Revoked - Security Boulevard

Don’t Mess with Texas National Guard

Oh what a tangled web we weave. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we struggle to unpick the story: https://t.co/MqqX2sE5yw

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) January 22, 2021

Trump Hates Cloud, Because China Cyber? - Security Boulevard

Parting Shot at IaaS

At least, that is, unless @POTUS @JoeBiden decides to click Edit|Undo. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we can smell the mission-creep a mile away: https://t.co/RwWJVNCZir

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) January 21, 2021

Old macOS component defeats malware researchers for 5 years - TechBeacon

Legacy bites Apple

What can #DevOps learn from this? In this week’s #SecurityBlogwatch at @TechBeaconCom, we learn lessons (not “learnings”): https://t.co/Fn13SQeN71

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) January 21, 2021

Capitol Rioters ID’ed With Help From Dating Apps - Security Boulevard

Don’t Tread On My Statue

Still, how dumb do you have to be to post evidence of your crime on social media, or admit to it in a dating app messenger convo? In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we swipe alt-right: https://t.co/6wP6wvarzA

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) January 18, 2021

Revealed: Sophisticated ‘Watering Hole’ Attack – But By Whom? - Security Boulevard

Project Zero Keeps Schtum

There are more questions than answers. In Friday’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we fill in the blanks: https://t.co/b4yQBn9A0o

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) January 18, 2021

Scraped Parler data reveals countless Capitol perps - TechBeacon

The moral of the story? Protect your object references. And throttle attempts to scrape. And strip metadata. And don’t render deleted objects.

It turns out that law enforcers are kinda happy, too. In this week’s #SecurityBlogwatch at @TechBeaconCom, we learn learnings from lemmings: https://t.co/p7JkWbIMkF

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) January 14, 2021

Hackers Didn’t Only Use SolarWinds to Break In, Says CISA - Security Boulevard

CISA Is Watching

This is a story that’s not going away anytime soon. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we keep an eye on the latest: https://t.co/MeXPsDohdE

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) January 11, 2021

WhatsApp/Facebook Data Sharing: Pants On Fire? - Security Boulevard

Pinky Swear

But that’s exactly what it promised not to do. On several occasions. In today’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we watch Zuck’s clothes burn: https://t.co/dSMN58DiYM

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) January 7, 2021

SolarWinds hack: Who’s to blame? It’s complicated. - TechBeacon

US? SWI? MSFT? PE?

But is there devilment in the detail of #PrivateEquity? In this week’s #SecurityBlogwatch at @TechBeaconCom, we read the runes: https://t.co/FHVs7x11gm #SolarWinds #APT29

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) January 7, 2021

Zyxel’s Ridiculous Backdoor: Happy New Year, Now Patch Your Gear - Security Boulevard

Taiwanese Trash or Deliberate Door?

Careless or deliberate? In yesterday’s #SBBlogwatch at @SecurityBlvd, we ask the inevitable questions: https://t.co/1bD00EExs5

— @Richi 😷 Jennings (@RiCHi) January 5, 2021