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### Summary Russh v0.40.1 and earlier is vulnerable to a novel prefix truncation attack (a.k.a. Terrapin attack), which allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to strip an arbitrary number of messages right after the initial key exchange, breaking SSH extension negotiation (RFC8308) in the process and thus downgrading connection security. ### Mitigations To mitigate this protocol vulnerability, OpenSSH suggested a so-called "strict kex" which alters the SSH handshake to ensure a Man-in-the-Middle attacker cannot introduce unauthenticated messages as well as convey sequence number manipulation across handshakes. Support for strict key exchange has been added to Russh in the patched version. **Warning: To take effect, both the client and server must support this countermeasure.** As a stop-gap measure, peers may also (temporarily) disable the affected algorithms and use unaffected alternatives like AES-GCM instead until patches are available. ### Details The SSH specifications of Ch...
The `Ref` methods `into_ref`, `into_mut`, `into_slice`, and `into_slice_mut` are unsound and may allow safe code to exhibit undefined behavior when used with `Ref<B, T>` where `B` is [`cell::Ref`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/core/cell/struct.Ref.html) or [`cell::RefMut`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/core/cell/struct.RefMut.html). Note that these methods remain sound when used with `B` types other than `cell::Ref` or `cell::RefMut`. See https://github.com/google/zerocopy/issues/716 for a more in-depth analysis. The current plan is to yank the affected versions soon. See https://github.com/google/zerocopy/issues/679 for more detail.
This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with EFF public interest technology Cooper Quintin about the hacking tool, the Flipper Zero.
Over the past few years, SaaS has developed into the backbone of corporate IT. Service businesses, such as medical practices, law firms, and financial services firms, are almost entirely SaaS based. Non-service businesses, including manufacturers and retailers, have about 70% of their software in the cloud. These applications contain a wealth of data, from minimally sensitive general
The developers of the information stealer malware known as Rhadamanthys are actively iterating on its features, broadening its information-gathering capabilities and also incorporating a plugin system to make it more customizable. This approach not only transforms it into a threat capable of delivering "specific distributor needs," but also makes it more potent, Check Point said&
A list of topics we covered in the week of December 11 to December 17 of 2023
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in SoftLab Integrate Google Drive.This issue affects Integrate Google Drive: from n/a through 1.3.4.
Plus: Hackers reveal flaws in crypto wallets holding $1 billion, a massive breach of Danish electric utilities, and more.
Plus: Apple tightens anti-theft protections, Chinese hackers penetrate US critical infrastructure, and the long-running rumor of eavesdropping phones crystallizes into more than an urban legend.
PikaBot, a stealthy malware normally distributed via malspam is now being spread via malicious ads.