DtSR Episode 175 - NewsCast for January 5th 2016

In this episode...

Juniper has a backdoor problem

• 2 separate issues, auth bypass & VPN weakness
• backdoor discovered in Juniper devices
• lots of speculation on who put it there, but it was meant to be disguised as ‘debug code’
• enterprise implications - same as before (what's the bigger picture?)
• https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Infocon+Yellow+Juniper+Backdoor+CVE20157755+and+CVE20157756/20521/

Iranians broke into New York dam in 2013 and “had a look around”

• no direct damage done
• US has largest number of ICS connected to Internet
• critical infrastructure is vulnerable, being probed
• this is not a ‘government problem’ - every company has some ICS on their network
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/21/iranian_hackers_target_new_york_dam/

Facebook announced it’s dumping Adobe Flash

• is this a bigger deal than it sounds like
• HTML5 has its own vulnerabilities and issues though… right?
• *only* for videos, games still in Flash
• Facebook will work with Adobe (really?) to improve security of Flash
• http://www.scmagazine.com/facebook-ditches-flash-videos-to-boost-security/article/461040/

191 Million US voter records found ‘unprotected’ by a researcher

• guy from Texas found the data on an unprotected database
• “Vickery told Databreaches.net he was able to poke around the public-internet-facing database because it is poorly configured: no authentication or password is r

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