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CVE-2020-15802 – Bluetooth vulnerability can cause Bluetooth devices to be attacked by man in the middle, and Bluetooth 4.0/5.0 devices are all affected! (9th Sep 2020).
Preface: Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is a low power wireless communication technology that can be used over a short distance to enable smart devices to communicate. … Today, the majority of Android and iOS devices on the market incorporate BLE for communication and interaction with other devices. Ref I: CTKD pairing allows the devices to…
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CVE-2020-9839 – MacOS cfprefsd Arbitrary File Write / Local Privilege Escalation (NVD Last Modified: 09/07/2020)
Synopsis: The hackers behind the scenes used different vulnerabilities to obtain private information from the iPhone. In fact, they built a complete iPhone vulnerability attack chain. And then use the vulnerability to obtain all unencrypted or APP data on the victim’s device and send it to the attacker’s server. Technical details: According to below design…
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Thomson Reuters Eikon version 4.0.42144 design weakness (9th Sep 2020)
Preface: NVD published date on 09/03/2020. Strongly believe that technical matter was resolved by vendor completely. However we should recording this issue in notes. As we know, hacker jump to client network will hide himself for a period of time. Sometimes such action cater for their data exfiltration activities or …. Techincal background: Slogan of…
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Don’t underestimate low-risk vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-15709). A simple method can be circumvented in Linux. 5th Sep 2020
Preface: The current Linux desktop market share is between 1.74 – 2.18%, according to the usage share of operating systems. In April 2019, Linux’s desktop market share was estimated to be 1.63%. Of all Linux users, 38.2% use Ubuntu as of May 2019. 21.5% of users rely on Debian. Background: PPA – Personal Package Archives…
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Cyber security Focus – Cloud collaboration for OT engineering (4th Sep 2020)
Preface: In line with its Industrie 4.0 effort, Google Cloud will use the OPC UA open standard to incorporate machine data into analytics and AI solutions. The existing atmosphere of the Internet world – According to the network attack statistics report. Different types of attacks are involved. Nowadays, receiving personal or confidential data illegally is…
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CVE-2019-18847 (Something in your eyes): 3rd Sep 2020
Preface: On October 15, 2019, Tesla discovered, and responsibly disclosed, a vulnerability within Akamai’s Enterprise Application Access (EAA) client that allows privilege escalation and remote code execution (RCE) when an attacker is within privileged locations on a network. Vulnerability details: Enterprise Access Client Auto-Updater allows for Remote Code Execution prior to version 2.0.1. Possible ways:…
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CVE-2020-11984: About Apache HTTP server 2.4.32 to 2.4.44 mod_proxy_uwsgi (2nd Sep 2020)
Preface: uWSGI is a very active project with a fast release cycle. For this reason the code and the documentation maynot always be in sync. Background: Currently there are three uwsgi-protocol related apache2 modules available. They are mod_uwsgi,mod_proxy_uwsgi and mod_Ruwsgi. uWSGI is often used for serving Python web applications in conjunction with web servers such…
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Heads up! Staying Alert! 1st Sep, 2020.
Preface: IP multicast is commonly used today to deliver stock quotes from stock exchanges to financial service providers and then to the stock analysts or brokerages. Background: The multicast addresses are in the range 224.0.0.0 through 239.255.255.255. Multicast traffic is blocked in the Layer-3 mode by default or by blocking PIM and IGMP under the…
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Maybe this is a outdated news, but Zoom users should pay attention – CVE-2020-9767 (31st Aug 2020)
Preface: Geometric progression up growth in net meeting software product recently because of COVID-19 effect. Background: We are all concerning of privileges escalation vulnerability. Recap OS vulnerability in past impact Zoom product. The GHOST vulnerability trigger “buffer overflow” bug that affects the gethostbyname () and gethostbyname2 () function calls in the glibc library. The vulnerability…
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Security focus – Fileless malware execution with powershell (27-08-2020)
Preface: Modern Cyber Defense solution without difficulties detect malicious activities. For instance, applications need approved permissions before installation; and security software can scan files to be written, read, and/or executed to check for known signatures. But we still heard data breach incident occurred. Why? Detail description: On 26th Aug, 2020, US Homeland security published articles…