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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2001: Verizon Wireless fixed a predictable session ID vulnerability which made it possible to access other customers' account information. Aug. 19: Software developer Marc Slemko notified Verizon. Sep. 1: After no response, he disclosed the vulnerability on BugTraq.
2014: X (Twitter) launched its bug bounty program via the HackerOne platform, stating it would award at least $140 for vulnerabilities found in x.com or its Android or iOS apps. $140? 140 was the max tweet length. $1.7 million has been paid out since inception.
2013: The researchers who revealed the BREACH attack at Black Hat released a tool for launching HTTPS attacks for testing purposes. [B]rowser [R]econnaissance and [E]xfiltration via [A]daptive [C]ompression of [H]ypertext
2013: Russia's Foreign Ministry issued a travel advisory to its hackers and others who might be wanted by US law enforcement.
2009: TJX agreed to pay $525,000 to facilitate the dismissal of a putative class action lawsuit filed by 4 banks in relation to a data breach in 2005 and 2006.
1997: Nmap was first released as a simple port scanner via an article in issue 51 of Phrack magazine which included the source code. That's right - 28 years of Nmap!
2014: A user of the message board 4chan posted leaked nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Kirsten Dunst, and other celebrities. Several years later 4 people were sentenced for crimes related to the hacking of Apple iCloud accounts of dozens of targeted individuals.
1990: The UK's Computer Misuse Act 1990 went into effect, introducing 3 criminal offenses related to unauthorized access and modification of "computer material".
2000: A software programmer created the first known Trojan for a Palm PDA. It could delete all programs on the device. File under bizarre: He wrote both the gaming app Liberty and this Trojan masquerading as a free, illegal version of Liberty! And chew on these news media quotes!
2013: NYTimes.com had its DNS redirected to a page that displayed the message "Hacked by SEA". On the same day, the Syrian Electronic Army changed Twitter's domain registrar. DNS records for twimg.com, its image hosting domain, were also changed.
2008: It was reported that a laptop on the International Space Station (ISS) was infected via removable media which contained the W32.Gammima.AG worm. For those unfamiliar, ISS has been orbiting Earth about 248 miles up roughly every 93 minutes for over 25 years.
2010: The UK Financial Services Authority fined Zurich Insurance £2,275,000 for its 2008 loss of an unencrypted backup tape.
2009: The first episode of the Social Media Security Podcast was published, co-hosted by Scott Wright and Tom Eston. In 2015 it was rebranded as the Shared Security Show since topics had evolved beyond social media.
2015: A British black hat hacker and two of his bodyguards were killed in a drone strike on a car in a Raqqa, Syria gas station. Junaid Hussain's location was discovered after he clicked on a compromised link sent by an undercover agent via the Surespot messaging app.
2003: The comic FoxTrot published a comic strip in which 10-year-old Jason Fox hacked the teleprompter of CNN's Wolf Blitzer. I don't know about you, but I would have watched a judo deathmatch between Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds. 🤣
2007: Monster.com announced a data breach involving the information of 1.3 million job seekers. Based on size it was a monster of a breach for the era, but the info stolen was limited to names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses.
2006: IBM announced that it was acquiring Internet Security Systems (ISS) for about $1.36 billion and its Japanese subsidiary for $570 million. Founded in 1994 by Chris Klaus while a student at Georgia Tech, its product line included RealSecure, BlackICE, and Proventia.
1999: A team led by Herman te Riele factored RSA-155 (512 bits) in the RSA Factoring challenge and was awarded $9,383.
2012: Sonya Martin was sentenced to 30 months in US federal prison for charges stemming from the compromise of WorldPay, followed by theft from 2,100 ATMs.
2007: Dan Shumow and Niels Ferguson presented "On the Possibility of a Back Door in the NIST SP800-90 Dual Ec Prng" at CRYPTO 2007. The paper: rump2007.cr.yp.to/15-shumow.pdf
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