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2019-02-15 | Dirty sock, How Tinder becomes a weapon, and 188 database connection strings
Friday, February 15
TOP STORY
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Good question posed by @marcusjcarey: As a cybersecurity pro, what’s your biggest day-to-day pain point?
TWEET OF THE DAY
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SSRF at an endpoint looking for a valid YouTube url. http://127.0.0.1:80 doesn’t work but http://127.0.0.1:80?http://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ works - @rohk_infosec
OTHER ARTICLES WE’RE READING
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Reddit serviced 2x the number of government data requests in 2018 as they reported in their transparency report
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Well that’s confidence inspiring. Prosecutors have misplaced hard drives from a case against a CIA computer engineer accused of leaking government secrets
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Bug bounty life: "Just found a database table that contains 188 database connection strings for other databases”
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From dirty cow to now dirty sock, Linux vulnerability lets attackers gain root
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Fooled ya. AI writes convincing prose, could take #fakenews to new level
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We have not actually ever seen a true, in depth forensic analysis to see if [electronic voting] machinery has been compromised, AFAIK. Vendors have fought access fiercely in lawsuits in GA, WI, PA, etc
