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New Open-source Security Initiative Aimed at Supply Chain Attacks

eSecurity Planet

Open source software libraries are frequent targets of hackers, who see them as an attractive path for stealing credentials and distributing malware. Both libraries have been shut down by hosting platforms, but the damage is done. His post is worth reading but be careful with any links, of course.

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Will cryptocurrency mining soon saturate AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud?

The Last Watchdog

Or, of course, you can take someone’s data hostage and ask them to pay the ransom in Bitcoin. Then a JavaScript library called Coinhive came along that enabled people to embed mining code on their websites. We live in an era of breaches and every breach usually results in data leaks, including a lot of logons and passwords.

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TrueFire Guitar tutoring website was hacked, financial data might have been exposed

Security Affairs

TrueFire has over 1 million users, its customer could pay to receive guitar tutorial from a library of over 900 courses and 40,000 video lessons. TrueFire is requesting users to change passwords for their accounts. The news of the incident was reported by several websites and forums, such as Guitar.com and Jazzguitar.

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Dirty Pipe Makes Linux Privilege Escalation Easy

eSecurity Planet

This pseudo-user is the least privileged account; it does not have any password and literally owns no files. Of course, there are some conditions, but the attacker does not need write permissions; read access is enough. The term “Pipe” refers to internal mechanisms in the Linux kernel called “pipelines.”

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Application Security: Complete Definition, Types & Solutions

eSecurity Planet

Controls can be anything from good password hygiene to web application firewalls and internal network segmentation, a layered approach that reduces risk at each step. Storing sensitive information such as passwords, credit card numbers, or social security numbers in cookies is discouraged due to the potential risk of exposure.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023

IT Governance

9 million records breached through decade-long data leak A former temporary employee of a subsidiary of NTT West (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp) illegally accessed about 9 million personal data records over the course of a decade (2013 to 2023). Among those affected was SAP SE. Breached records: more than 56 million.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Crypto

ForAllSecure

Guido Vranken returns to The Hacker Mind to discuss his CryptoFuzz tool on GitHub, as well as his experience fuzzing and finding vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries and also within cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum. So what if you accidentally forget the password? That means it falls to you to protect your cryptocurrency.