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Troy Hunt: 5 website security lessons courtesy of Stratfor

troyhunt.com

by Troy Hunt

December 29, 2011

Just when you start thinking we've seen out the last of the major security breaches for 2011, Christmas day brings us one final whopper for the year: Stratfor.

Much has already been said about why they might have been hacked and who might (or might not) have done it, but the fact remains that there are now tens of thousands of customer passwords and credit card details floating around the web. Oh, and apparently about 5 million internal emails ready to be released. So what do we take from this as website builders? The benefit of hindsight gives us a good opportunity for reflection as we watch the fallout unfold from the last major breach of the year. Let me share the 5 lessons I'm taking away from this.

32 of the Best and Worst Infosec Analogies

tripwire.com

by David Spark

February 19, 2013

Information security is a weird egg. You can be in it and understand it, yet have a hard time explaining it to the lay person or even your colleagues.

For that reason, the infosec industry has glommed onto a never-ending chain of analogies and metaphors to better explain the intangibles of digital security. We can't seem to keep them all straight, nor do we know them all. So we reached out to security influencers and asked them what their favorite and least favorite infosec analogies or metaphors were and why they loved and hated them so much. I took a little editorial liberty and squeezed in a few sayings that don't necessarily qualify as analogies or metaphors, but I think you'll appreciate them nonetheless.

Obama vs. Snowden

townhall.com

by Paul Jacob

August 11, 2013

The most "transparent presidency" in American history confronts the agency of that transparency. Which side is easier to see through?

Who is telling the truth: President Barack Obama or Edward Snowden? When the middle-aged Mr. Snowden (now 30 years old) fled to Hong Kong and then on to Russia, having disclosed to The Washington Post and Glenn Greenwald at The Guardian of London a reported treasure trove of top-secret documents about the National Security Agency surveillance and data-mining programs, a fierce national (and worldwide) debate ensued. President Obama has repeatedly said that he welcomes the discussion. On the minor little manner of this "debate" itself, who is dealing in truth? No one has ever suggested the documents pilfered and made public by Snowden were inauthentic. And no one sound in mind thinks Obama honestly welcomed this debate.

UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal

torrentfreak.com

by Andy

July 26, 2013

This week prime minister David Cameron announced further details of his crusade to have adult material censored in the UK.

It's a controversial topic for a number of reasons, with even those unconcerned about losing access to porn wondering what will be censored next. Apparently the government have already thought that through. According to ISPs speaking with the Open Rights Group, the filter will target a range of other content too. stop-blockedOn Monday David Cameron told his citizens that by the end of the year broadband subscribers will be required to go through a compulsory system which will decide what they can and cannot see on the Internet. Starting from a position of 'porn banned', subscribers will have to systematically unblock things they require access to. This, Cameron says, will help prevent the nation's children from gaining access to "corroding influences" online.

Pirate Bay Founder to Launch NSA-proof Messenger App

torrentfreak.com

July 10, 2013

Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde is working on a new messaging platform that will be impossible to spy on, even by the people who operate the network.

Using end-to-end encryption in combination with a user-friendly interface, Heml.is hopes to cater to the demands of millions of privacy-concerned Internet users. "In this day and age we can't do without encryption," Sunde tells TorrentFreak. Over the past month the PRISM scandal has dominated the news, with many people calling for stronger privacy protections as a result. While it may not come as a complete surprise that nearly all communication on the Internet is monitored and stored, the revelations have brought talks about encrypted communication to the mainstream.

Malware Extorts Cash From BitTorrent Users

torrentfreak.com

April 11, 2010

A new type of malware is riding the wave of file-sharing pre-settlement letters by infecting BitTorrent users' machines and then demanding payments in order to make imaginary lawsuits go away. ICPP Foundation try to give the impression they are RIAA and M

ICCP Foundation claims to be an international company operating out of Switzerland. They say they are “committed to promoting the cultural and economic benefits of copyright” while assisting their partners to fight “copyright theft around the world”. In fact what they really do is operate a scam to extort money from BitTorrent users. Right at this moment we are unsure of the exact route of infection, but somehow malware (probably in either fake file or attached virus form) is displaying a “copyright violation alert” on the victim’s screen, locking it, and redirecting users to the ICPP site where they are told they have been caught infringing copyright.

MacBooks Run Slow Without Battery

tomshardware.com

by Marcus Yam and Amos Ngai

December 1, 2008

A new "Power Saving Feature" in the unibody MacBook and MacBook Pros was inadvertently discovered by Gearlog while they were doing a routine benchmark.

Gearlog was benchmarking was to test third party RAM modules for use in the new MacBook Pros, but discovered that the notebook's processing power significantly decreased after the battery was removed during the test. It was confirmed that Apple does indeed scale back the CPU processing speed while operating on AC power without a battery installed. According to this support document, Apple essentially down-clocks the CPU to prevent the system from shutting down if it happens to demand greater power than the AC adapter alone can provide...

Heartbleed First Attacks Identified

tomsguide.com

by Jill Scharr

April 15, 2014

The Canadian tax agency and a U.K. parenting website are the first confirmed instances of Heartbleed exploits, experts say.

It's Heartbleed's first blood: two cyber-break-ins have been identified. One attack was at the Canadian tax agency and the other at a U.K. parenting website, which were allegedly accomplished using the Heartbleed bug, a flaw in a type of online encryption. The two cases appear to be unrelated, but in both instances snoops seemingly used the now-infamous flaw in OpenSSL, an online encryption software, to access the sites' databases. In at least one of the breaches the hackers stole hundreds of users' personal information.

NSA Knew About Heartbleed, Did Nothing, Sources Say

tomsguide.com

by Jill Scharr

April 11, 2014

Did the NSA know about the Heartbleed bug for the past two years? Two anonymous sources told Bloomberg News the agency did.

Did the National Security Agency (NSA) know about the Heartbleed Internet security flaw for the past two years? That's what two anonymous sources told Bloomberg News reporter Michael Riley. The NSA not only said nothing about the serious bug that compromised the OpenSSL encryption library used by millions of websites, but it also used the bug to gather intelligence, Riley's sources told him. If the NSA did know about Heartbleed, it could have used the bug to get data from any Internet-facing server using a vulnerable version of OpenSSL since the flaw was accidentally implemented in January 2012. Such data would include usernames, passwords, encryption keys, search history, private messages and more.

WHIPPS CROSS: Hospital hit by computer virus

This is Local London

by Daniel Binns

August 21, 2009

WHIPPS Cross University Hospital has been hit by a "crippling" computer virus, which has knocked out a large proportion of its IT system.

The fault, which first emerged last week, is still being cleared today by staff, but a Whipps spokeswoman said no patient care had been affected by the problem so far. One hospital patient, who did not wish to be named, told the Guardian they had been informed that the virus had "crippled" scores of computers and created havoc for staff.

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