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Oct 26, 2016
“ You are being watched!” The Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector (short: AIMSICD) is an Android open-source based project to detect and avoid fake base stations (IMSI-Catchers) or other base-stations (mobile antennas) with poor/no encryption, born in 2012 on XDA. The project aims to… read more »
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Oct 25, 2016
Update, now! If you have an Apple device, you should update it to IOS 10.1 as soon as possible: the update addresses a vulnerability that allows you to take control of the device by simply sending a JPEG image specially… read more »
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Oct 25, 2016
An experimental but useful project ViperMonkey is a toolkit written in Python by Philippe Lagadec, developed to parse VBA macros and emulate their execution. ViperMonkey acts as a VBA Emulation engine, and tries to analyze and deobfuscate malicious VBA Macros contained… read more »
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Oct 25, 2016
Continuously updated… Last Friday a sizable DDoS attack was launched against Dyn’s “Managed DNS” infrastructure using a Mirai-Fueled IoT Botnet, making unreachable services of some companies such as Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, GitHub, Amazon and Reddit. All sites that deal with… read more »
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Oct 24, 2016
Using an IMSI-catcher and a Femtocell The security researcher Wanqiao Zhang of Qihoo 360 has published a research about a vulnerability in LTE networks. The attacks work through a series of messages sent between malicious base stations and targeted phones.… read more »
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Oct 24, 2016
“If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles” (Yes, it’s a quote by Sun Tzu) The GitHub account of infosecguerrilla is a precious source of information about malware. Into two repositories is… read more »
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Oct 21, 2016
Any user can become root in less than 5 seconds! The bug has existed since Linux kernel version 2.6.22 and was found by Phil Oester. Exploitation of this bug does not leave any trace of anything abnormal happening to the logs. So… read more »
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Oct 21, 2016
“Because understanding blockchains should not be a difficult task!” A very interesting Node.js project developed by Lauri Hartikka. Blockchain is a distributed database that maintains a continuously-growing list of records called blocks secured from tampering and revision. The blockchain format… read more »