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Security: SpaceBelt, Faulty Chips, SpeakUp FUD, Containers and More

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 7th of February 2019 05:57:08 AM Filed under
Security
  • SpaceBelt whitepaper

    Isolation from the Internet is vulnerable to the usual gateway problem, unintentional or malicious. If only application-level access is provided, a gateway only accesses its own account. However, if state security services were able to insert malware into Iran's nuclear facilities, I think that the isolation may not be as impregnable as purported.

    Consider also that system control has to be provided somehow, so they must have a control facility. In terms of vulnerabilities to governments and physical attacks, it is an equivalent of a datacenter hosting the intercontinental cluster's control plane, located at the point where master ground station is. In case of SpaceBelt, it is identified as "Network Management Center".

  • Linux Kernel Continues To Offer Mitigation for Spectre Mitigation

    Usually, you want to mitigate all possible vulnerabilities unless we are talking about Meltdown and Spectre which are a class or family of dozens of vulnerabilities. But what sysadmins hate more than these vulnerabilities are mitigations offered to these vulnerabilities. Some of these mitigations have a massive impact on performance, while not offering any significant protection.

  • Microsoft re-releases several updates to address RSRE, SSB and L1 Terminal Fault
  • SpeakUp Trojan Targets Linux Servers [Ed: Check Point are liars. It is not "backdoor" but a Trojan that targets unpatched, neglected machines]

    Researchers at Check Point have found a new Trojan called SpeakUp that’s infecting Linux servers. SpeakUp exploits known vulnerabilities in Linux and is targeting servers in China.

    According to Check Point, “SpeakUp acts to propagate internally within the infected subnet, and beyond to new IP ranges, exploiting remote code execution vulnerabilities. In addition, SpeakUp presented the ability to infect Mac devices with the undetected backdoor.”

  • For security hygiene, scan your containers in build time

    Developers are increasingly turning to containers to make building, testing, and running applications across a variety of environments faster and more efficient. As containers have grown in popularity, so too has the understanding that we need to find solutions to keeping the code within them secure from vulnerabilities.

  • Google Set to Advance Confidential Computing With Asylo Project [Ed: Google redefines the word "confidential". A "surveillance capitalism" company in NSA PRISM and with back doors in everything (and with NSA access to your passwords) hunours confidentiality?]
  • Over Half of Companies Are Upping Spending on IT Security: eSecurity Planet Survey
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