IT Security Weekend Catch Up – March 10, 2017

Afraid of missing important security news during the week? We’re here to help! Every week we put together a curated list of all important security news in one place, for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!

For the less technical

1. Dutch police took over encryoted messaging servers
2. Surveillance of journalists
3. Russian hacker Kris Kaspersky died in an accident

For the more technical

1. Enigma conference recordings
2. RCE via MiTM in F-Secure software updater
3. Tracking smartphones, defeating MAC randomization: article, paper
4. Attacking Nexus 9 with malicious headphones
5. Apache Struts vulnerability
6. Struts exploit cought in the wild
7. Attacks on Struts
8. 68% of Java apps using Struts running on vulnerable version
9. Targeted attacks on dissidents in Azerbaijan
10. Court support system issues wrong decisions
11. About password rules
12. Analysis of offensive PowerShell usage
13. [PDF] Analysis of PowerShell used in attacks
14. Analysis of PowerShell attack
15. XSS in Google Maps
16. Instagram credentials stealer in Google Play store
17. Vulnerabilties in WIFICAM cameras
18. Pre-auth vulnerability in Drupal services
19. Huge research on 0day vulnerabilities lifecycle plus an article and some comments
20. Analysis of 87 Java exploits
21. Seven vulnerabilities in a web application
22. A series of vulnerabilities in airbnb
23. New Torrentlocker tricks
24. Ransomware used for political purposes
25. Targeted attacks by FIN7 group
26. Verifone investigating network breach
27. Local Windows kernel DoS
28. Analysing obfuscated scripts with text editor
29. Two files with the same hashes
30. Necurs adds DDoS features
31. Quantum issues
32. Zcoin error analysis
33. Poachers try to hack GPS trackers
34. Future of SCADA ransomware
35. A detailed description of a penetration test: part 1, part 2
36. Game cheating
37. Critical vulnerability in Hikvision / Dahue equipment
38. Smartfones with preinstalled malware
39. Rooting with W3 Total Cache and Nginx
40. CIA tools leak
41. Comment on the leak
42. Analysis of one of the accidentally leaked tools
43. Risks linked to Uber app
44. Spora ransomware analysis
45. Stonedrill and Shamoon 2 attacks
46. Fancy Bear Android malware analysis
47. Spammers leak data via unsecured backup
48. Encoding, encryption, hashing, obfuscation
49. [PDF] Trend Micro yearly report
50. Logging into locked Twitter accounts
51. Monitoring local Tor network traffic
52. NSS Labs on CrowdStrike product testing
53. WD MyCloud NAS hacking
54. Macro attacks on OpenOffice
55. Excel files increasingly used to spread malware
56. Finding Linux systems in Windows registry
57. [PDF] Thermal imaging used to attack smartfone logins
58. EFI rootkit detection

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