Political Trojans, WordPress 0day, and Tool Fails- WSWiR Episode 150

Another week, another flood of security news. Do you find yourself falling behind of the latest InfoSec news? Than this weekly video should help you catch up.

This week’s video covers the latest on the White House breach, a new security tool that got hacked a day later, and an old trojan that has received some politically-motivated updates. Press play to learn about all that and more; and don’t forget the references to other stories below.

As an aside, I’m experimenting with the timing of this weekly blog post. While I will continue to post the weekly video on Friday, I will schedule this blog post the Monday after. If you’d rather see the video on Friday, be sure to subscribe to the YouTube channel.

(Episode Runtime: 10:12)

Direct YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmIr30YlLDA

EPISODE REFERENCES:

• Monday: White House Breach Gets Worse – Daily Security Byte EP.70
  • Russian attackers read Obama’s email – NY Times
  • Experts concerned with government’s email security – The Guardian
• Tuesday: 0Day WordPress XSS – Daily Security Byte EP.71
  • Long comments can hijack WordPress blogs – Motherboard
  • Researchers blog post on 0day WordPress XSS – Klikki.fi
  • WordPress has since released an update to fix this – Ars Technica
• Wednesday: Prevent Phishing with Password Alert – Daily Security Byte EP.72
  • Google releases a Chrome extension to protect you from phishing – Google
  • Wired Article about Chrome Password Alert – Wired
• Thursday: Password Alert Fail – Daily Security Byte EP.73
  • Google’s Password Alert already hacked! – Ars Technica
• Friday: Bedep Trojan Gets Political – Daily Security Byte EP.74
  • Bedep trojan used to increase views of Russian political video – Trustwave
  • Hackers fake views on political videos – Motherboard

EXTRAS:

• Tesla’s website and Twitter feed hijacked – TechCrunch
  • How attackers hijacked Tesla via AT&T – Forbes
• US DoD breached due to bad patching practices – V3.co.uk
• Remote surgery robots can be hacked – Popular Science
  • UW study on the vulnerabilities in Telemedicine [PDF] – Arxiv.org
• How a convicted hacker lives without the Internet – Business Insider
• Now that IE blocks Java, hackers move to exploiting Flash – The Register
• DDoS attacks continue to increase in size – Business Insider
• Malware campaign hits xhamster – Business Insider
• Hacker’s take out a Hawaiian telescope website – Phys.org
• Microsoft say Macro malware is rising – Winbeta
• Researcher implants NFC in his hand to slurp data – Gizmodo
• PayPal patched a pretty critical flaw – Network World
• A female Canadian hacker arrested for webcam spying – Phys.org
• Story on nude image trading on the Dark Web – CNN
• Spam blasting malware infected Linux and FreeBSD servers – Ars Technica

— Corey Nachreiner, CISSP (@SecAdept)

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