Episode 365: The Unfixable Exploit

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Hardware flaws that can’t be solved, human errors at the physical layer, and spoofing cellular networks with a $5 dongle.

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Links:

• Sysadmin unplugged wrong server, ran away, hoped nobody noticed • The Register — ‘I was a snot-nosed kid fresh out of college and thought I knew everything!’
• Spoofing Cell Networks with a USB to VGA Adapter | Hackaday — Available through the usual overseas suppliers for as little has $5 USD, these devices can be used unmodified to transmit low-power FM, DAB, DVB-T, GSM, UMTS and GPS signals.
• ShofEL2, a Tegra X1 and Nintendo Switch exploit — The Tegra X1 (also known as Tegra210) SoC inside the Nintendo Switch contains an exploitable bug that allow taking control over early execution, bypassing all signature checks.
• Atlanta spends more than $2 million to recover from ransomware attack — . It appears that firms Secureworks and Ernst & Young were paid $650,000 and $600,000, respectively, for emergency services while Edelman was paid $50,000 for crisis communication services. Overall, the funds seemingly applied to the ransomware attack response add up to approximately $2.7 million.
• Google Chrome 66 Released Today Focuses on Security — The biggest change is that Google Chrome will start showing SSL certificate errors for all Symantec certs issued before June 1, 2016. This is "stage two" of Google's long-term plan on distrusting Symantec certificates altogether.
• Where to get started with monitoring?
• defunkt uses a fool tools for his network
• Brian shares some love for Zabbix
• VMware Patches Pwn2Own VM Escape Vulnerabilities — VMware on Tuesday patched a series of vulnerabilities uncovered earlier this month at Pwn2Own. The flaws enabled an attacker to execute code on a workstation and carry out a virtual machine escape to attack a host server.
• balena - A Moby-based container engine for IoT — A Moby-based container engine for IoT