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Security: Bugs, Samba Flaw, CISA's Deja Vu, and More

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 28th of July 2022 11:15:15 PM Filed under
Security
  • Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]

    Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr), Fedora (chromium, gnupg1, java-17-openjdk, osmo, and podman), Oracle (grafana and java-17-openjdk), Red Hat (389-ds:1.4, container-tools:rhel8, grafana, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, pandoc, squid, and squid:4), Slackware (samba), and SUSE (crash, mariadb, pcre2, python-M2Crypto, virtualbox, and xen).

  • Samba Releases Security Updates | CISA

    The Samba Team has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple versions of Samba. An attacker could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.

  • CISA Releases Log4Shell-Related MAR [Ed: Microsoft's friends at CISA trying to recycle FUD from last year instead of cautioning about Windows back doors and actively-exploited zero-days]

    From May through June 2022, CISA responded to an organization that was compromised by an exploitation of an unpatched and unmitigated Log4Shell vulnerability in a VMware Horizon server. CISA analyzed five malware samples obtained from the organization’s network and released a Malware Analysis Report of the findings.

  • Automated dynamic application security testing with RapiDAST and cross-team collaboration

    Red Hat Product Security has been developing RapiDAST, a tool that can be used for security testing of products and services. It is also helpful for developers or quality engineers (QEs) to test the security of products during the software development life cycle (SDLC).

    As the name suggests, RapiDAST is focused on performing rapid (automated) dynamic application security testing (DAST). While there are many security practices we can consider comprehensively for improving security posture of development environments — threat modeling, software composition analysis (SCA), static application security testing (SAST), fuzzing, penetration testing, etc. — this article focuses on DAST.

  • Stashing a Kali Linux Pentesting Setup Inside a Book

    Kali is a Debian-based Linux distro designed specifically for penetration testing. While one can install the tools on any Debian distro to create an equally capable pentesting system, Kali comes with all of those tools built-in and is locked-down by default for security. Over the last few years, Kali has become a favorite of pentesters. And because it is a Debian-based distro, it runs well on single-board computers with ARM processors.

    [...]

    In this case, that is the new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W single-board computer. It's paired with a Pimoroni Hyperpixel 4.0" TFT LCD touchscreen and a Solder Party BlackBerry Q20 keyboard with built-in trackpad. That is a full QWERTY tactile keyboard with a breakout board that provides connectivity options, including the USB connection used here. A small USB hub provides USB-A connections, since the Raspberry Pi only has micro USB ports.

    All of that hardware fits inside of a book called Supermind by Mark Phillips. Except it isn't actually a book. It's a hollow wood box that looks like a book. We can only imagine that grymoire feels like a spy any time he pulls this book off a shelf and open it up to reveal their pentesting rig.

  • Cyber-Attacks on Industrial Infrastructure are Intensifying

    Cybercriminals are now attacking the whole world in a very different way. In the past, they were just limited to the normal power users but nowadays they are targeting the critical infrastructures in our society. In most cases, they are trying to take down the whole industrial network and often ask for heavy ransoms. Even if they manage to get hold of a certain portion of the network, chances are that the industrial leader will pay the fees and get their system running again.

    Such kind organized attacks on critical infrastructures were not prominent in the past. But things are changing fast and the hackers are trying to attack the organizations as they know it can help them to earn more money in a quicker way.

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