ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking
Wade Mackey
Funny we were just talking about this yesterday in class. A new article on a new cold boot attack popped up on my feed this morning. It’s a variation of the old cold boot attack the Professor mentioned in class yesterday. Researchers from the Finnish cyber-security firm F-Secure are figuring out a safeguard that was protecting computers from this attack.
https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/cold-boot-attack-encryption.html
https://www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2018/09/08/microsoft-windows-7-monthly-charge-windows-10-free-upgrade-cost/amp/
Looks like Microsoft might start charging users of Microsoft 7 sometime in the future a monthly subscription fee to keep their Operating Systems up-to-date. This is not the first time a tech company has done this for older versions. I believe Oracle does this too for Java.
https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/mac-adware-removal-tool.html
A popular adware removal tool in the Apple App store has been found stealing users browser history which is a violation of Apple’s terms and services agreement. It’s breaking out of Apple’s typical sandboxing it makes it’s apps follow and steals the browser information. This data is being exfiltrated to a server located in China. An ex NSA staffer found this issue a while ago and notified Apple about it, but it took Apple over a month before they did anything about it. Eventually they did remove it from the app store.
It’s interesting how people think Apple is immune to these types of issues, but this is evidence that nobody is immune. Apple might do a better job than Microsoft or Google but they are just as susceptible as others.
Sev Shirozian