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INFRA:HALT flaws impact OT devices from hundreds of vendors

Security Affairs

IN FRA:HALT is a set of vulnerabilities affecting a popular TCP/IP library commonly OT devices manufactured by more than 200 vendors. NicheStack (aka InterNiche stack) is a proprietary TCP/IP stack developed originally by InterNiche Technologies and acquired by HCC Embedded in 2016. ” states the report.

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Backdoor Built into Android Firmware

Schneier on Security

In 2017, some Android phones came with a backdoor pre-installed : Criminals in 2017 managed to get an advanced backdoor preinstalled on Android devices before they left the factories of manufacturers, Google researchers confirmed on Thursday.

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After 2 years under the radars, Ratsnif emerges in OceanLotus ops

Security Affairs

Since at least 2014, experts at FireEye have observed APT32 targeting foreign corporations with an interest in Vietnam’s manufacturing, consumer products, and hospitality sectors. “Compared to the 2016 variants this sample introduces a configuration file and does not rely on C2 for operation. ” continues the analysis.

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Reconciling vulnerability responses within FIPS 140 security certifications

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

While some vulnerabilities are found by the product manufacturer, a good number of them originate from the public world from sources such as the CVE database. This database is a public-facing registry that lists all security vulnerabilities found in products or libraries, and catalogs them using a unique identifier.

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The profession's biggest problem: diversity

CILIP

LIZ Jolly, Chief Librarian at the British Library since September 2018, will give a keynote speech at the CILIP conference in July. experience in a variety of institutions in the university sector, most recently as Director of Student and Library Services at Teesside University. Staff at the British Library may be a ?multi-professional

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Taking down Gooligan: part 2 — inner workings

Elie

This is the second post of a series dedicated to the hunt and takedown of Gooligan that we did at Google, in collaboration with Check Point, in November 2016. Play store app manipulation The final step of the infection is the injection of a shared library into the Play store app. first post. final post. publicly shared code.

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Taking down Gooligan: part 2 — inner workings

Elie

This is the second post of a series dedicated to the hunt and takedown of Gooligan that we did at Google, in collaboration with Check Point, in November 2016. Play store app manipulation The final step of the infection is the injection of a shared library into the Play store app. first post. We traced the injection code back to.