2018-01-24 | Nuclear red team exercises, Hide N Seek IoT botnet, and Facebook’s $100K Secure the Internet Grant

Wednesday, January 24

TOP STORY

• What is the ultimate cyber threat to society? Hard to argue with a nuclear system breaches and exploitation. The Verge reports on International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) red team exercises. The margin of error is razor thin.  

HACKTIVITY

• Claiming ownership of GitHub handles via forked GitHub gists [43 upvotes] - $1,000 bounty for this report to Keybase by @edio.

• [serve] Directory index of arbitrary folder available due to lack of sanitization of %2e and %2f characters in url [7 upvotes] - no bounty for this report to Node.js third-party modules by @bl4de.

You can see all the latest and greatest disclosures and bounties on www.hackerone.com/hacktivity  

OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING

• Facebook offering grants up to $100k to "Secure the Internet"

• TinderDrift: Those swipes are using HTTP.

• Hide N Seek IoT botnet

• Electron JS protocol handler vulnerability fix

• Vulns in Apple products: Safari, watchOS, iOS, High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, and tvOS could allow for arbitrary code execution.

• Your Candy Wrappers are Listening

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