- Facebook Blames Outage on Faulty Router Configuration
October 5, 2021
As of Monday night, Facebook had crawled back from what may have been its longest blackout ever and apologized for the mass outage that left billions of users locked out of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus VR for about six hours. In a Monday night blog post, Santosh Janardhan Facebook’s vice president of infrastructure gave ...
- NSA-CISA Guidance: Selecting and Hardening Remote Access VPN Solutions
September 30, 2021
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) allow users to remotely connect to a corporate network via a secure tunnel. Through this tunnel, users can take advantage of the internal services and protections normally offered to on-site users, such as email/collaboration tools, sensitive document repositories, and perimeter firewalls and gateways. Because remote access VPN servers are entry points into protected networks, they ...
- Dangling Domains: Security Threats, Detection and Prevalence
September 16, 2021
The Domain Name System (DNS) provides the naming service which maps mnemonic domain names to various resources such as IP addresses, email servers and so on. As one of the most fundamental internet components, DNS and domain names usually serve as trusted anchors for users to access desired internet resources. As a result, threat actors ...
- SOVA, Worryingly Sophisticated Android Trojan, Takes Flight
September 10, 2021
A new Android banking trojan named SOVA (“owl” in Russian) is under active development, researchers said, and it has big dreams even in its infancy stage. The malware is looking to incorporate distributed denial of service (DDoS), man in the middle (MiTM) and ransomware functionality into its arsenal – on top of existing banking overlay, ...
- Hackers leak passwords for 500,000 Fortinet VPN accounts
September 8, 2021
A threat actor has leaked a list of almost 500,000 Fortinet VPN login names and passwords that were allegedly scraped from exploitable devices last summer. While the threat actor states that the exploited Fortinet vulnerability has since been patched, they claim that many VPN credentials are still valid. This leak is a serious incident as the VPN ...
- Netgear Smart Switches Open to Complete Takeover
September 7, 2021
Three severe Netgear vulnerabilities, codenamed Demon’s Cries, Draconian Fear and Seventh Inferno by the researcher that found them, affect 20 of the company’s managed smart switches and could allow an attacker to take them over. The bugs were patched on Friday with zero technical details made available, but the researcher has now released more details on ...
- Analyzing SSL/TLS Certificates Used by Malware
September 3, 2021
Malware has increasingly been making use of encryption to help hide their network traffic in recent years. This makes sense especially when one realizes that ordinary network traffic is increasingly encrypted as well. Google’s own Transparency Report notes that HTTPS traffic now makes up the vast majority of network traffic passed via the Google Chrome ...
- Comcast RF Attack Leveraged Remotes for Surveillance
September 2, 2021
More details about a now-patched vulnerability in Comcast’s XR11 voice remotes have emerged, which would have made it easy for a threat actor to intercept radio frequency (RF) communications between the remote and the set-top box, effectively turning the remote into a surveillance device. The XR11 remotes are some of the most common around, with more ...
- DNS Rebinding Attack: How Malicious Websites Exploit Private Networks
August 31, 2021
Web-based consoles are widely adopted by management software and smart devices to provide interactive data visualization and user-friendly configuration. This is gaining momentum as enterprises’ computer systems become more complex and more modern internet of things (IoT) devices are used at home. These web applications are usually located in internal environments or private networks protected ...
- Major websites hit by global outage
July 22, 2021
Visitors attempting to reach some sites received DNS errors, meaning their requests could not reach the websites. Affected services included Airbnb, UPS, HSBC bank, British Airways and the PlayStation network used for online games. One popular DNS provider, Akamai, reported “an emerging issue” with its Edge DNS service. Read more… Source: BBC News