Electron applications designed to run on Windows that register themselves as the default handler for a protocol, like Skype, Slack and others, are vulnerable to the remote code execution vulnerability.
https://electronjs.org/blog/protocol-handler-fix
Dutch intelligence service AIVD provided the FBI with important information regarding Russian interference with the American elections. They have following the Cozy Bear APT for years.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/media/dutch-agencies-provide-crucial-intel-about-russia-s-interference-in-us-elections~a4561913/
Good blog about the exploitation of the Intel Management Engine 11 vulnerabilities. Researchers Mark Ermolov and Maxim Goryachy were able to debug and analyse most of the Intel ME processes.
http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2018/01/running-unsigned-code-in-intel-me.html
It's possible to bypass the Cloudflare protection by scanning internet for misconfigured customers' servers.
https://blog.christophetd.fr/bypassing-cloudflare-using-internet-wide-scan-data/
It is possible for an unauthenticated attacker in the LAN network to achieve remote code execution (CVE-2018-5999) in the AsusWRT router as the root user.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pedrib/PoC/master/advisories/asuswrt-lan-rce.txt
The Tinder dating application is not using encryption when accessing data on a backend server. Your naked photos could be seen by a waitress in a restaurant. The geeky one.
https://www.checkmarx.com/2018/01/23/tinder-someone-may-watching-swipe-2/
Oracle has released patches for ten vulnerabilities in VirtualBox, which allows guest to host virtual machine escape.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/10-new-vm-escape-vulnerabilities-discovered-in-virtualbox/
The guy was able to obtain TLS certificates from the Let's Encrypt certification authority for domains that he does not own, due to the TLS-SNI-01 challenge workflow in a cloud environment. Shared hosting providers like Heroku, AWS CloudFront affected.
https://labs.detectify.com/2018/01/12/how-i-exploited-acme-tls-sni-01-issuing-lets-encrypt-ssl-certs-for-any-domain-using-shared-hosting/
Blog by Joanna Rutkowska on a future Qubes Air operating system architecture roadmap. They want to provide compartmentalized secure Qubes OS as a service.
https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/01/22/qubes-air/
There is a cryptographic analysis of the WireGuard protocol. WireGuard is a layer 3 replacement for the IPsec, OpenVPN solutions. Interesting project.
https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/080
Nice introduction on how to fuzz TCP servers by Robert Swiecki.
http://blog.swiecki.net/2018/01/fuzzing-tcp-servers.html