Month: August 2018

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Throwback Thursday: How did…er, DIDN'T he do that?

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 03:00:00 -0700

It’s 1977, and this network analyst pilot fish is working at a newly constructed data center — one with a big fence.

“The company had just gotten a new sense of needing physical security, so they had included a new, state-of-the-art security system,” says fish.

“It had electronic locks at a handful of doors in the building, a 10-foot-high fence with a motorized gate, and key-card reader stations by each of the locked doors and the gate.”

One day, company needs to bring a new communications line up between the data center and an office 10 miles away. Fish’s team leader decides the best way to do this without disrupting the users is to have fish go to the remote office at 4:30 a.m., while his team leader goes to the data center.

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SSD Advisory – Linux Kernel AF_PACKET Use After Free (packet_sock)

Credit to Author: SSD / Ori Nimron| Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 05:26:28 +0000

Vulnerability Summary UAF vulnerability in Linux Kernel’s implementation of AF_PACKET leads to privilege escalation. AF_PACKET sockets allow users to send or receive packets on the device driver level, which lets them implement their own protocol on top of the physical layer or sniffing packets including Ethernet and higher levels protocol and higher levels of the … Continue reading SSD Advisory – Linux Kernel AF_PACKET Use After Free (packet_sock)

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