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Tenable Network Security Podcast - Episode 197
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Telephony DoS - I read an interesting article that detailed an attack that used a combination of social engineering and a DoS attack against your phone system. The attacker calls the victim and asks about up paid debt. Whether you have debt or not, the attacker insists on payment. If you refuse, a DoS attack is launched against your phone systems using combination of cheap labor and VoIP phones. Interesting how one defends against this attack.
MediaWiki Vulnerability - There are actually two vulnerabilities in MediaWiki versions < 1.19.11 / 1.21.5 / 1.22.2. Yikes, this is widely deployed software, according to the reports from Checkpoint "Wikipedia.org is the sixth most-visited web site in the world, with over 94 million unique visitors per month and almost 2 million sites linking to it. " This is a vulnerability to seek out and patch in your own environment, who knows who may have installed this software and forgotten about it, giving attackers a foothold in your network. The two features that suffer from the vulnerability are not enabled by default, though I am unclear exactly which features these relate to. I've run MediaWiki for about 5 years, done several upgrades, and they are pretty painless.
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