Security News
A list posted by US-CERT this week rattles off the 10 most oft-targeted security vulnerabilities during the past three years, and finds that, shock horror, for the most part, keeping up with patching will keep you safe. Microsoft ranks highly in the list because its software is widely used, and provides the most potential targets for hackers, though on the other hand, fixes have been available for these bugs for a long while: it doesn't have to be this way, people.
Rabobank's Australian outpost has messed up its Android app, leaving an unknown number of users unable to access their bank accounts on mobile devices. Customers brought The Register's attention to the pile of woeful reviews for the bank's app, many featuring a complaint that it produces the error "Unable to connect please check your internet connection".
Let's Encrypt has halted its plans to cancel all three million flawed web security certificates - after fearing the super-revocation may effectively break a chunk of the internet for netizens. Earlier this week, the non-profit certificate authority, which issues HTTPS certs for free, announced a plan to disable some three million certificates tainted by a software bug.
UPDATE. Popular free certificate authority Let's Encrypt said it will revoke 3 million Transport Layer Security certificates Wednesday, because of a Certificate Authority Authorization bug. Let's Encrypt explained on Tuesday it had to revoke the 3 million certificates because of a CAA bug that impacted the way its software checked domain ownership before issuing certificates.
Safari will, later this year, no longer accept new HTTPS certificates that expire more than 13 months from their creation date. The aim of the move is to improve website security by making sure devs use certs with the latest cryptographic standards, and to reduce the number of old, neglected certificates that could potentially be stolen and re-used for phishing and drive-by malware attacks.
An infosec researcher has published a JavaScript-based proof of concept for the Netgear routerlogin.com vulnerability revealed at the end of January. Through service workers, scripts that browsers run as background processes, Saleem Rashid reckons he can exploit Netgear routers to successfully compromise admin panel credentials.
Netgear left in its router firmware key ingredients needed to intercept and tamper with secure connections to its equipment's web-based admin interfaces. Specifically, valid, signed TLS certificates with private keys were embedded in the software, which was available to download for free by anyone, and also shipped with Netgear devices.
Easy-to-use exploits have emerged online for two high-profile security vulnerabilities, namely the Windows certificate spoofing bug and the Citrix VPN gateway hole. Within hours of the NSA going public with details about its prized bug find, exploit writers posted working code demonstrating how the flaw can be abused to trick unpatched Windows computers into accepting fake digital certificates - which are used to verify the legitimacy of software, and encrypt web connections.
Medtronic's latest problem is in their Valleylab electrosurgical generators used by surgeons things like cauterisation during operations.
Disposable furniture flogger seeks data wranglers Scandi furniture emporium Ikea is seeking privacy specialists to join its office in Malmö, Sweden.…