Today In Infosec @todayininfosec
Tweeting news from the world of information security that occurred or was announced on today's date in a previous year. Managed by @stevewerby. Joined July 2014-
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2010: Symantec announced that it was acquiring PGP for $300 million and GuardianEdge for $70 million, beefing up its encryption capabilities by acquiring the two encryption technology companies.
1917: The Cipher Bureau was founded by the US Government. This code and cipher decryption unit was formed in response to the US declaring war on Germany in World War I. The NSA's roots can be traced back to the Cipher Bureau.
1986: In protest of rates for satellite dish owners, Captain Midnight jammed HBO's satellite signal for 4 minutes. Jump to 1:40 in and you'll soon see what it looked like when the broadcast of The Falcon and the Snowman was interrupted. youtu.be/lbruOe6Yii0
2013: LivingSocial informed its employees that 50 million users' names, emails, dates of birth, and SHA1 hashed passwords were compromised.
2015: The message in Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Games" 1977 article in Scientific American (about the RSA encryption algorithm) was decrypted by Nat McHugh in under 24 hours at a total cost of $30. "Millions of years to break"? Yeah...not so much! natmchugh.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-ma…
2011: The 20-year-old son of the founder of Russia's Kaspersky Lab was rescued from kidnappers by Moscow police, federal agents and the firm's security forces. The kidnappers had demanded 3 million Euros for his return. They were promised payment, but instead 5 were arrested.
2013: The Syrian Electronic Army hijacked the Twitter account of the Associated Press and falsely claimed the White House had been bombed.
2006: A team from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte won the inaugural annual National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC).
1988: The VIRUS-L email mailing list was created and moderated by Ken van Wyk while he was working at Lehigh University. It was the first electronic forum dedicated to discussing computer viruses.
1997: The Brotherhood Of Warez took down the CBC website and replaced it with the message "The Media Are Liars". This was retaliation for CBC radio's story of an incident dubbed "Emeryville Horror" its resulting "Hacker Terrorizes Family" stories.
2012: Splunk (symbol SPLK) had its IPO on the NASDAQ at an offering price of $17 per share, raising $229.5 million. It closed the day at $35.48 - a 109% increase. Annual return over 8 years? 29.6% (from $17) and 18.2% (from $35.48). In 2023 Cisco bought Splunk for $28 billion.
2010: The OWASP Top 10 for 2010 was officially released. It's been periodically released since 2004, most recently in 2021. What is described as the top 10 web application security risks is less a top ten and more 10 overarching categories covering many, many distinct risks.
1994: A message with the subject "NSA employee's security manual" was posted to newsgroup alt.security.pgp. theory.stanford.edu/~donald/NSA.do…
1995: proff (Julian Assange) published "The Dan Farmer Rap", about SATAN vulnerability scanner software author, Dan Farmer. Yes, that Julian Assange. Yes, the WikiLeaks founder. Yes, really!
2007: The MPAA & AACS began sending cease & desist letters to websites publishing the key "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0". Why? It was a cryptographic key to protect content on HD DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. The result? The Streisand effect, of course!
2018: The TV series Scorpion aired for the final time (93rd episode), at the end of its 4th season on CBS. Yes, the series with ridiculous scenarios and cringeworthy geek-speak ran for 4 seasons. Think about all of the great shows you loved that got canceled before year 4. 🤔
2013: TrustedSec released the Social-Engineer Toolkit (SET) v5.0 (codename: The Wild West).
2000: The RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) arrested a Canadian juvenile known as MafiaBoy for a DDoS attack against cnn.com.
2016: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union (EU) to strengthen and unify data protection was adopted.
2009: Private equity firm Thoma Bravo announced that it acquired encryption and digital cert provider Entrust for $114 million. In 2013 it sold Entrust to Datacard Group four an undisclosed amount.
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@SwiftOnSecurity for cloudflare, why don't you use 1.0.0.2 for malware blocking as well?
@ESYudkowsky Also, just in case you (or anyone reading the thread) aren't aware, you can view the exact prompt sent to DALL-E in the web interface by expanding the image and clicking the little "i" icon at the top right. (No equivalent on the mobile app, unfortunately, afaik.)
My best explanation of parallel lines:
Blue team may not seem sexier, but coming from someone who's been on both sides of the keyboard, it's definitely been more challenging.
Wait a minute... is anyone on this network NOT Red Team?
@Allison_Dupont My son is a junior and is taking Calculus as well as a Money Matters elective. Hopefully statistics next year. And maybe in college he can take a course on making his own sandwich.
Assume that I am being targeted by a Nation State again.
I’m sitting next to you on the flight ✈️ what do you do ? 👇🏻
During security research, you may end up running code in an environment, where establishing raw TCP connections to the outside world is not possible; outgoing connection may only go through a connect proxy (HTTPS_PROXY). This simple interactive HTTP server provides a way to mux…
Question for the pentesters and red teamers out there: What is a technique, tactic, exploit or tool that you think is fun in labs/training or competition/CTF environments but you would never trust a junior tester to use on a client unsupervised or at all? I’ll start, MS17-010.
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This story is wild. Russian drug market Solaris was hacked by #infosec firm @HoldSecurity. Then a rival underground market, Kraken, hacked Solaris, according to @elliptic. Story by @campuscodi in the excellent @riskybusiness newsletter: risky.biz/RBNEWS100/ #infosec
Couldn't figure out why the #docker Dokuwiki container was running as my son's id (1001:1001) and not mine (1000:1000) and then I realized that docker containers don't match the host user ids and now I have newfound respect for @0xfraq and @IanColdwater in dealing with this stuff
Having our annual family viewing tonight.
1996: The movie "Independence Day" was released. Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith fly into an alien vessel in a 50-year-old space junker, then upload a computer virus in less than 5 minutes. Yeeeeeees! Everything's compatible! Humans - 1 Malevolent extraterrestrials - 0
It had a profound impact on me, and many others. As "the weird kid" in a small town HS, it made a big impression on me to not only realize that there were others like me out there, but to see it expressed in such powerful terms. Thank you, Mentor.
1986: The Mentor wrote "The Hacker Manifesto" (originally "The Conscience of a Hacker"). Why? Because he wanted to share the essence of who hackers were and why they were hacking, at a time when perception was clouded by the movie WarGames. Re-read it: bit.ly/2JDFlhB
This was a seminal work in InfoSec and vuln research. All the more interesting, is that the first overflow I am aware of dates back to 1973-02-07 in Multics.
1996: "Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit" was published in the hacker zine, Phrack . The article by Elias Levy (aka Aleph One) introduced many to stack buffer overflow vulns and exploitation.
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