Monday, October 16
TOP STORY
It’s KRACK coordinated disclosure day. Flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to eavesdropping discovered by Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens of Belgian university KU Leuven (go #teambelgium). So what now? - Alex Hudson shares some thoughts.
HACKTIVITY
[mercantile.wordpress.org] Reflected XSS via AngularJS Template Injection [22 upvotes] - $300 bounty for this report to WordPress by @ysx.
A user with restricted privileges is able to view Phone Number + Billing Email of account owner [11 upvotes] - no bounty for this report to New Relic by @jon_bottarini.
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OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING
Ars on the KRACK attack
No laughing matter. NYT looks at North Korea’s cyber power
G-7 Fundamental Elements for Effective Assessment of Cybersecurity in the Financial Sector
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