Monday, September 18
TOP STORY
The Patch Games. CVE-2017-5638 disclosed by U.S. CERT in early March 2017. Per Equifax, breach began mid-May 2017. #patchfail? Yes, says Wired: Equifax officially has no excuse. Gartner’s Avivah Litan said the bug alone is not to blame, “You have to have layered security controls”.
OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING
The road to HSTS and Chrome to force .dev domains to HTTPS via preloaded HSTS
A Method for Web Security Policies draft-foudil-securitytxt-00. See also Security.txt write up on Bleeping computer
CORS Exploitation: Data exfiltration when allowed origin is set to NULL
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From third-party (non-company system) sources, we uncovered that Equifax’s chief privacy officer, CIO, VP of PR and VP of Sales, used all lowercase letters, no special symbols, and easily guessable words like spouses’ names, city names, and even combinations of initials and birth year.
Comodo on claim that they discovered Equifax Executives passwords for sale on dark web
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