InfoSec Week 47, 2017

According to the annual State of Open Source Security report, 77% of 433000 analyzed sites use at least one front-end JavaScript library with a known security vulnerability.
https://snyk.io/blog/77-percent-of-sites-still-vulnerable/

The AWS team published blog about the recent improvements to the secure random number generation in Linux 4.14, OpenSSL and libc.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/better-random-number-generation-for-openssl-libc-and-linux-mainline/

Really good introduction to the anonymous communication network design and mix nets in general, published by Least Authority.
https://leastauthority.com/blog/mixnet-intro/

Those guys reverse-engineered the Furby Connect DLC file format and are able to remotely upload their own logos, songs to the device over Bluetooth.
https://www.contextis.com/blog/dont-feed-them-after-midnight-reverse-engineering-the-furby-connect

There is a critical vulnerability in the MacOS High Sierra, anyone can login as root with empty password after clicking on login button several times. For now, it could be mitigated by just changing the root password.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/11/macos-high-sierra-users-change-root-password-now/
https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x24.html

Very good investigative journalism about the mysterious NSA contractor which could provided top secret documents to the Shadow Brokers.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/11/who-was-the-nsa-contractor-arrested-for-leaking-the-shadow-brokers-hacking-tools/

Uber paid hackers $100k to delete stolen data on 57 million people and shut up. They have even tried to fake it as an bug bounty payment.
http://blog.trendmicro.com/uber-how-not-to-handle-a-breach/

Someone published remote code execution exploit for the Exim Mail server (CVE-2017-16944) on GitHub. Shodan.io shows more than 400k servers with the vulnerable CHUNKING feature.
https://twitter.com/_miw/status/934872934681804800
https://github.com/LetUsFsck/PoC-Exploit-Mirror