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Fwd: Identifying back doors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices
by rysiek 21 Jul '14

21 Jul '14

---------- Treść przekazywanej wiadomości ---------- Temat: Identifying back doors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices Data: sobota, 19 lipca 2014, 18:20:18 Od: coderman doubt this will surprise anyone; iOS intentionally designed to support surveillance. --- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1742287614000036 "Identifying back doors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices" by Jonathan Zdziarski Abstract The iOS operating system has long been a subject of interest among the forensics and law enforcement communities. With a large base of interest among consumers, it has become the target of many hackers and criminals alike, with many celebrity thefts (For example, the recent article “How did Scarlett Johansson's phone get hacked?”) of data raising awareness to personal privacy. Recent revelations (Privacy scandal: NSA can spy on smart phone data, 2013 and How the NSA spies on smartphones including the BlackBerry) exposed the use (or abuse) of operating system features in the surveillance of targeted individuals by the National Security Agency (NSA), of whom some subjects appear to be American citizens. This paper identifies the most probable techniques that were used, based on the descriptions provided by the media, and today's possible techniques that could be exploited in the future, based on what may be back doors, bypass switches, general weaknesses, or surveillance mechanisms intended for enterprise use in current release versions of iOS. More importantly, I will identify several services and mechanisms that can be abused by a government agency or malicious party to extract intelligence on a subject, including services that may in fact be back doors introduced by the manufacturer... ''' ----------------------------------------- -- Pozdr rysiek

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konwent postapo Old Town
by Paweł Leszczyński 19 Jul '14

19 Jul '14

Czołem, ryś zasugerował, żeby wrzucić tutaj informację o konwencie posapo. Jest dość późno, konwent zaczyna się od poniedziałku, ale może ktoś będzie chciał ogarnąć. A jak nie teraz to w przyszłym roku. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgBCE4Tq0_E Na poprzednim była prezentacja bety BarBota, pojawia się też sporo środowisk okołohaesowych :-) nF

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CfP: Jesień Linuksowa, dbConf
by rysiek 19 Jul '14

19 Jul '14

Cześć Hakiery, mam info od PLUGU, że cały czas otwarte są Call for Papers na: - Jesień Linuksową: http://www.jesien.org/2014/pl/aktualnosci,nadal-trwa-przyjmowanie-propozycj… - dbConf: http://www.dbconf.pl/2014/pl/aktualnosci,nadal-trwa-przyjmowanie-propozycji… Zachęcam. Ja swoje propozycje na Jesień zapodałem (na dbConf za cienki jestem w uszach jako prelegent ;) ). -- Pozdr rysiek

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Fwd: Strong Security Processes Require Strong Privacy Protections
by rysiek 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

---------- Treść przekazywanej wiadomości ---------- Temat: Strong Security Processes Require Strong Privacy Protections Data: piątek, 18 lipca 2014, 06:16:09 Od: coderman Do: Full Disclosure <fulldisclosure(a)seclists.org>, liberationtech <liberationtech(a)mailman.stanford.edu>, cpunks <cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org>, oss- security(a)lists.openwall.com "Strong Security Processes Require Strong Privacy Protections" A request for all security conscious organizations handling vulnerability reports to deploy privacy enhancing technologies. --- With the Snowden disclosures and Google's Project Zero on the minds of security professionals everywhere, it is time to evaluate one more aspect of this renewed focus on 0day and targeted attacks: vulnerability submission to vendors. [0][1] Software vulnerabilities of use to nation states and espionage organizations are recognized as a threat to privacy and basic human rights. Their impact no longer dismissable or discounted given evidence of misuse. I will not discuss hardware vulnerabilities in this treatment as they entail different considerations and constraints. [2] Reporting vulnerabilities of this nature in turn requires strong privacy protections commensurate with the five and six digit monetary values they command, and the adversaries intent on discouraging their discovery or mitigation. [3][4] --- Therefore, any organization handling vulnerability reports must support strong privacy for vulnerability submission. This is mandatory even if most or all issues received via this channel are not 0day, not high value, and entail very little risk to users. The characteristics of a strong private reporting method are: - Email must not be used. In the best circumstances email leaks too much information. In common situations it is passed around clear text, trivially interfered with, and winds through software with huge usability and vulnerability problems. Email for initial security vulnerability reporting must cease immediately. [5][6] - Public web systems for vulnerability reporting must not be used. Like email, this leaks too much information and is vulnerable to a wide array of attacks destroying any privacy intended. [7][8] - Submission of reports via hidden site required. This has become fashionable in media organizations as the "secure drop" for whistleblowers, and it is equally apropriate for vulnerability reporting. This significantly raises the cost of surveilling a vulnerability reporting service, and ensures that passive interception of reported vulnerabilities is impossible. [9] - Encryption of submitted reports required. PGP and GPG are wonderful tools, despite encrypted email being a dismal failure. While the hidden drop may protect the privacy of the reporter, encryption of the report content to specific vulnerability researchers' keys ensures privacy to the receiver. A compromise of the hidden site must not lead to access of reported vulnerabilities. [10] - Submitter anonymity the default. Submissions and communication must accomodate an anonymous identity. If a researcher wishes to claim credit they must opt-in and provide additional information. No psuedonymous account requirements, no key linking across submissions. - Obfuscated disclosure should be available if desired. Capturing 0day in the wild used for espionage or cyber effects is a rare event. Publicly disclosing when, where, and how you obtained such captures ensures you're likely never to see any others. Researchers in position to observe and inspect such events should be able to report the vulnerabilities without credit and without indicating the origin. A vendor could provide a "cover story" for how the vulnerability was discovered internally, to best protect sources' ability to continue to discover these types of weaponized exploits in the wild. Finally, it goes without saying that this privacy applies during reporting and mitigation phases of defect resolution. Once a patch is prepared and public the details of the vulnerability should be public as well, via email list, public blog, or any other useful medium. --- As participants in the security industry it behooves us all to set an example for others and to demonstrate a committment to security and privacy via action. Security conscious organizations handling vulnerability reports can support strong privacy and send a clear message deploying private reporting methods described above. Security researchers must demand strong privacy from organizations they collaborate with, even in the most trivial or minor of circumstances, so that infrequent severe vulnerabilities may also be reported in confidence. Privacy is a basic human right we must all support. Let's demonstrate our support by using privacy enhancing technologies to resolve risks to privacy! best regards, 0. "The NSA Revelations All in One Chart" https://projects.propublica.org/nsa-grid/ 1. "Announcing Project Zero" No link as the announcement is only supported over HTTP; attempt HTTPS and you're redirected to plain-text. This is an embarassment that should be fixed, Google Project Zero! (the other plain-text sites below have not unreasonable exuses ;) 2. "New technologies are radically advancing our freedoms but they are also enabling unparalleled invasions of privacy" https://www.eff.org/issues/privacy 3. "A Declaration of Cyber-War" http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/04/stuxnet-201104 '''On July 15, the day Stuxnet’s existence became widely known, the Web sites of two of the world’s top mailing lists for newsletters on industrial-control-systems security fell victim to distributed-denial-of-service attacks...''' 4. "The Real Story of Stuxnet" http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/security/the-real-story-of-stuxnet '''Just as Kaspersky’s engineers were tricking Gauss into communicating with their own servers, those very servers suddenly went down,...''' 5. "Universal Email Encryption Specification" http://ritter.vg/blog-uee_email_encryption.html 6. "Pond" (not like email) https://pond.imperialviolet.org/tech.html 7. "Bullrun (decryption program)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullrun_%28decryption_program%29 8. "How secure is HTTPS today? How often is it attacked?" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/how-secure-https-today 9. "How the NSA Attacks Tor/Firefox Users With QUANTUM and FOXACID" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/how_the_nsa_att.html (this is what a hard to attack system looks like, and keeping disclosure entirely within the network from clients to hidden sites amplifies the difficulty significantly.) 10. "The Rise of the Middle and the Future of End-to-End: Reflections on the Evolution of the Internet Architecture" https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3724.txt ----------------------------------------- -- Pozdr rysiek

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Zbiórki publiczne
by Maria Skrzypek 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

Tak jakby ktoś się jeszcze zastanawiał co to za dziwo: http://wiadomosci.ngo.pl/wiadomosci/996625.html :)

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Fwd: the NSA revelations all in one chart
by rysiek 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

---------- Treść przekazywanej wiadomości ---------- Temat: the NSA revelations all in one chart Data: czwartek, 17 lipca 2014, 15:09:14 Od: Eugen Leitl <eugen(a)leitl.org> Do: cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org http://projects.propublica.org/nsa-grid/ The NSA Revelations All in One Chart This is a plot of the NSA programs revealed in the past year according to whether they are bulk or targeted, and whether the targets of surveillance are foreign or domestic. Most of the programs fall squarely into the agency’s stated mission of foreign surveillance, but some – particularly those that are both domestic and broad-sweeping – are more controversial. Just as with the New York Magazine approval matrix that served as our inspiration, the placement of each program is based on judgments and is approximate. For more details, read our FAQ or listen to our podcast. Also, take our quiz to test your NSA knowledge. ----------------------------------------- -- Pozdr rysiek

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Fwd: BadBIOS forensics
by rysiek 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

---------- Treść przekazywanej wiadomości ---------- Temat: BadBIOS forensics Data: środa, 16 lipca 2014, 07:19:47 Od: Bluelotus <bluelotus(a)openmailbox.org> Do: cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org I am donating BadBIOS infected laptops, flashdrives, tampered live fedora CD, infected personal files (plain text files, MP3, PDF, jpg, tiff, doc), infected external DVD writer, etc. to any one interested in conducting forensics. I wrote threads on my limited ability to perform forensics in /r/badBIOS subreddit of reddit.com. My other threads are in other subreddits. Look at my submit history. My laptops were indicted, infected and implanted. ----------------------------------------- -- Pozdr rysiek

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Orkiestra górniczo-monetarystyczna [bitcoin]
by Marcin 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

Pozdrawiam wszystkich Kopaczy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEthXBHsEac MZ

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Consciousness on-off switch
by rysiek 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

OHAI, "When the team zapped the area with high frequency electrical impulses, the woman lost consciousness. She stopped reading and stared blankly into space, she didn't respond to auditory or visual commands and her breathing slowed. As soon as the stimulation stopped, she immediately regained consciousness with no memory of the event. The same thing happened every time the area was stimulated during two days of experiments (Epilepsy and Behavior, doi.org/tgn)." -- http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329762.700 Aleksander? :) -- Pozdr rysiek

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No Silver Bullet - De-identification still doesn't work
by TeMPOraL 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

http://randomwalker.info/publications/no-silver-bullet-de-identification.pdf Taki paper będący odpowiedzią na jakiś inny, który rzuca troszkę światła na problem anonimizacji danych. (moim zdaniem pokładanie jakiejkolwiek nadziei w anonimizacji czegokolwiek jest bardzo nierozsądne) Jacek Złydach, http://temporal.pr0.pl/devblog | http://esejepg.pl | http://hackerspace-krk.pl TRC - Bringing you tomorrow's solutions yesterday.

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