Dear friends, I have been publishing weekly mailing list for more than two years, starting in December 2016 and as of today, the few hundreds people signed. As I have only one life and it's moving way too fast, I have decided to stop working on the weekly news and focus more on building things and writing meaningful articles about them.
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Dutch security researcher Victor Gevers found misconfigured MongoDB database containing facial recognition and other sensitive information about the Uyghur Muslim minority in China. Looks like the company behind the database is Chinese surveillance company SenseNets.
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Ubiquiti network devices are being remotely exploited, via port 10001 discovery service. Results in loss of device management, also being used as a weak UDP DDoS amplification attack: 56 bytes in, 206 bytes out.
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Insurance Company says to the Mondelez customer that the NotPetya ransomware attack was an act of cyber war and therefore not covered by the policy.
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According to a Reuters investigation, United Arab Emirates used former U.S. intelligence operatives to hack into the iPhones of activists, diplomats and foreign politicians using so-called Karma spyware.
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Microsoft's mobile Edge browser begins issuing fake news warnings. It is powered by news rating company NewsGuard. It gives you fake news warning for Wikileaks, so decide for yourself.
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35-year-old vulnerability has been discovered in the SCP file transfer utility. According to the advisory impact section, 'Malicious scp server can write arbitrary files to scp target directory, change the target directory permissions and to spoof the client output.'
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Personal information of many German politicans were published online. Since then, Police arrested 20 years old suspect.
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Let's Encrypt recapitulated the last year in the operation of their ACME based certification authority, and summarized the challenges that they will work on in 2019. They intend to deploy multi-perspective validation, checking multiple distinct Autonomous Systems for domain validation, preventing potential BGP hijacks. They also plan to run own Certificate Transparency (CT) log.
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The Chinese battery expert is charged with stealing trade secrets from US employer, as he prepared to return home. Forensics found deleted research materials not related to his contract on a USB voluntarily provided to a supervisor.
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Google Project Zero published a blog about the FunctionSimSearch open-source library which is capable to find similar functions in the assembly. They are using it to detect code statically-linked vulnerable library functions in executables.
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According to the New York Times sources, Marriott customers' data were breached by Chinese hackers. Attribution is hard, especially when investigating government related hacks. We have to wait for more information.
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