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Hacking Nation States & Crashing iPhones – WSWiR Episode 154

June 1, 2015 By Corey Nachreiner

Unfortunately, lots of security news suggests lots of cyber crime. If you want to stay protected, you need to keep up to date; but who has time? Hopefully our weekly InfoSec video can help.

Last Friday’s episode covered an IRS data leak, a mysterious text message that crashed iPhones, some scary new crowd-sourced ransomware, and more. Watch the YouTube video below for all the details, and check out the References for other stories.

(Episode Runtime: 11:53)

Direct YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85fEsnnTf7E

Show Note: I’ll be traveling for the next two weeks to attend various security conference. I’ll try to keep up with semi-daily videos, but will not post as regularly, or at the normal times. 

EPISODE REFERENCES:

  • Monday: Missed due to US holiday
  • Tuesday: Hackers Hit the IRS – Daily Security Byte EP.88
    • IRS’s official warning about the Get Transcript breach – IRS.gov
    • Hackers steal 100K tax records from IRS – Wired
  • Wednesday: iOS Crash Text – Daily Security Byte EP.89
    • Original (now removed) Reddit post on the mysterious iOS crash flaw – Reddit
    • Additional Reddit post on the iOS text issue – Reddit
    • Tweet of iOS crash message – Twitter
    • Media article on the iOS text hack – Wired
    • iOS text bug likely affects OS X too – Forbes
    • OS X exploit of Core Text flaw – Github
    • Old article about 2013 Arabic text iOS flaw – Ars Technica
  • Thursday: Crowd-sourced Ransomware – Daily Security Byte EP.90
    • Free ransomware found on the Deep Web – Motherboard
    • Security awareness blog post on Tox ransomware – Security Zap
    • Analysis of Tox ransomware – McAfee
    • Deep web Tox website (visit at your own risk with Tor) – Onion link
  • Friday: North Korean Cyber Killers? – Daily Security Byte EP.91
    • Defector claims NK hacker could destroy cities and kill – BBC
    • US tried to attack NK with a Stuxnet-like attack – Reuters

EXTRAS:

  • Great research on a new exploit kit that targets SOHO routers – MDNC
  • Gaana, an Indian music service, suffers a SQL injection breach – The Next Web
  • Hola, a free VPN tool, puts users at risk by using them as exit nodes – Motherboard
    • Security researchers post on Hola risk – Adios-Hola
  • FBI seized MegaUpload domains host malicious ads – BBC
  • Saumil Shah shows off his stegosploit image-based attack – Motherboard
  • Superfish is going out of changing business – Phys.org
  • Grabit malware goes after small businesses – Securelist
    • Press article on Grabit – The Register
  • Malware still spreading on Facebook – Trend Micro
  • Millennials are most vulnerable to cyber crime – Business Insider
  • Starbuck going hard against white hat researcher – TechDirt
  • Sleeper ransomware “wakes up” infecting thousands – Digital Trends
  • Synology patches storage device vulnerability – Network World
  • Exploit export rules in the US are a bad idea – Forbes
  • Latest on the Roberts plane hacking saga – Reuters
  • Spam used to infect PoS systems – Computer World
  • Beware of Minecraft related scareware apps on Google Play – The Inquirer
  • Long form journalism piece on plane hacking – Wired
  • New hack allows researchers to track subway riders – The Next Web
  • Moose worm infects Linux-based routers – Ars Technica

— Corey Nachreiner, CISSP (@SecAdept)

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