The US Department of Commerce announced export controls on hacking tools used for surveillance. The aim is to curb access to authoritarian governments who have been identified for human rights violations and abuses. Any companies who intend to sell their wares abroad will need to acquire a License Exception Authorized Cybersecurity Exports (ACE). An additional license is … [Read more...]
InfoSec News From Last Week October 18th, 2021
Azure, BitBucket, GitHub, and GitLab revoke SSH Keys After GitKraken Vulnerability Git software client GitKraken disclosed an SSH key generation flaw in a post this past Monday. The flaw was discovered in versions 7.6.x, 7.7.x, and 8.0.0 for releases available between mid-May to late-June this year. GitKraken uses the library keypair to generate SSH keys for connecting code … [Read more...]
HTML Basics That We Often Miss
By now you have probably heard of Missouri governor Mike Parson tweet threatening to prosecute a journalist for responsibly disclosing a data breach. If you missed it though, according to the tweet and the governor’s ensuing press conference, a journalist from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch found teachers’ SSNs embedded in a public web page by accessing the HTML of the … [Read more...]
InfoSec News Weekly Wrap-Up October 8th, 2021
SMS Routing Company Syniverse Discloses Breach Spanning 5 Years Syniverse claims to be “the world’s most connected company” serving so many large telecommunication companies that it should be assumed that your provider is one of their customers. Their reach is significant, acting as the intermediary for text messages between carriers and routing calls between networks. The … [Read more...]
US Agencies Have Been Busy
U.S. Agencies have been making headlines recently for a lot of their new cyber related regulations. The following are several noteworthy of examples of what they have been up to. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Robocalls The FCC expects phone carriers to block illegal robocalls from providers not yet registered with the Robocall Mitigation Database. The … [Read more...]