Reposted from: https://lemmings.world/post/10865023

> 1. Recognize the common signs > > • Urgent or emotionally appealing language > • Requests to send personal or financial information > • Unexpected attachments > • Untrusted shortened URLs > • Email addresses that do not match the supposed sender > • Poor writing/misspellings (less common) > > 2. Resist and report > Report suspicious messages by using the “report spam” feature. > If the message is designed to resemble an organization you trust, report the message by alerting the organization using their contact information found on their webpage. > > I have found also these phishing reporting pages: > > SITE: https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/ > > SITE: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/section/about-this-website/report-scam-website > > SITE: https://www.scamwatcher.com/scam/add?type=fraudulent_website > > SITE/EMAIL: https://report.netcraft.com/report ( scam [\AT\] netcraft [\D0T\] com - for a phishing/fraud mail forwarding ) > > EMAIL: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/phishing-scams/report-scam-email#section_1 - forward phish mail to report [\AT\] phishing [\D0T\] gov [\D0T\] uk > > EMAIL: https://apwg.org/reportphishing/ ( reportphishing [\AT\] apwg [\D0T\] org - forward phishing mail as attachment if possible ) > > EMAIL: phishing-report [\AT\] us-cert [\D0T\] gov (phishing message should be sent as attachment possibly or its full source code in a message BODY.) > > OTHER: https://www.knowbe4.com/free-phish-alert (email client extension) > > feedback or new additions are welcome > > 3. Delete > Delete the message. Don’t reply or click on any attachment or link, including any “unsubscribe” link. > The unsubscribe button could also carry a link used for phishing. Just delete > > _________________________________________________ > > Source: https://www.cisa.gov/secure-our-world/recognize-and-report-phishing > > Send this to your friends, especially internet beginners.

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For more information about BusKill canaries, see:

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Status: All good Release: 2024-06-11 Period: 2024-06-01 to 2024-12-31 Expiry: 2025-01-31

Statements ==========

The BusKill Team who have digitally signed this file [1] state the following:

1. The date of issue of this canary is June 11, 2024.

2. The current BusKill Signing Key (2020.07) is

   E0AF FF57 DC00 FBE0 5635 8761 4AE2 1E19 36CE 786A

3. We positively confirm, to the best of our knowledge, that the integrity of our systems are sound: all our infrastructure is in our control, we have not been compromised or suffered a data breach, we have not disclosed any private keys, we have not introduced any backdoors, and we have not been forced to modify our system to allow access or information leakage to a third party in any way.

4. We plan to publish the next of these canary statements before the Expiry date listed above. Special note should be taken if no new canary is published by that time or if the list of statements changes without plausible explanation.

Special announcements =====================

None.

Disclaimers and notes =====================

This canary scheme is not infallible. Although signing the declaration makes it very difficult for a third party to produce arbitrary declarations, it does not prevent them from using force or other means, like blackmail or compromising the signers' laptops, to coerce us to produce false declarations.

The news feeds quoted below (Proof of freshness) serves to demonstrate that this canary could not have been created prior to the date stated. It shows that a series of canaries was not created in advance.

This declaration is merely a best effort and is provided without any guarantee or warranty. It is not legally binding in any way to anybody. None of the signers should be ever held legally responsible for any of the statements made here.

Proof of freshness ==================

04 Jun 24 14:10:16 UTC

Source: DER SPIEGEL - International (https://www.spiegel.de/international/index.rss) Fortress Europe: Migrants Abandoned on the Edge of the Sahara Israel-Gaza-Krieg: Menschenrechtler Aryeh Neier über Schuldfrage und Strafverfolgung (Kopie)

Source: NYT > World News (https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/World.xml) Middle East Crisis: Israeli Airstrikes Kill Iranian General in Syria Live Updates: India’s Election Results Suggest a Setback for Modi

Source: BBC News - World (https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml) Shock for India's Modi as opposition set to slash majority Gaza ceasefire plan turns into deadly game of survival

Source: Bitcoin Blockchain (https://blockchain.info/q/latesthash) 000000000000000000014cd79802b29c1dcd7fc6debee1e3968cfc216b59bf16

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What is BusKill?

BusKill is a laptop kill-cord. It's a USB cable with a magnetic breakaway that you attach to your body and connect to your computer.

| [!What is BusKill? (Explainer Video)](https://www.buskill.in/#demo) | |:--:| | Watch the BusKill Explainer Video for more info youtube.com/v/qPwyoD_cQR4 |

If the connection between you to your computer is severed, then your device will lock, shutdown, or shred its encryption keys -- thus keeping your encrypted data safe from thieves that steal your device.

https://archive.ph/XRblF

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/20097432

> Unbelievable...

So I have a situation where I would like to keep data secure. In my mind if I'm working on a computer that has no network connection, this is the safest.

However, I may from time to time need to transfer data to this machine, which introduces a vulnerability. Any thoughts on how I could minimize the risk in this case?

I continue to be amazed that anybody connects their appliances to the internet.

Today, 16 years ago, Debian published a security advisory announcing CVE-2008-0166, a severe bug in their OpenSSL package that effectively broke the random number generator and limited the key space to a few ten thousand keys. The vulnerability affected Debian+Ubuntu between 2006 and 2008. In 2007, an email signature system called DKIM was introduced. Is it possible that people configured DKIM in 2007, never changed their key, and are still vulnerable to CVE-2008-0166?

https://mastodon.social/@hanno/112427156548148984

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15178977

> FWIW, this isn't to do with me personally at all, I'm not looking to do anything dodgy here, but this came up as a theoretical question about remote work and geographical security, and I realised I didn't know enough about this (as an infosec noob) > > Presuming: > * an employer provides the employee with their laptop > * with security software installed that enables snooping and wiping etc and, > * said employer does not want their employee to work remotely from within some undesirable geographical locations > > How hard would it be for the employee to fool their employer and work from an undesirable location? > > I personally figured that it's rather plausible. Use a personal VPN configured on a personal router and then manually switch off wifi, bluetooth and automatic time zone detection. I'd presume latency analysis could be used to some extent?? But also figure two VPNs, where the second one is that provided by/for the employer, would disrupt that enough depending on the geographies involved? > > What else could be done on the laptop itself? Surreptitiously turn on wiki and scan? Can there be secret GPSs? Genuinely curious!

There’s a server, a client, and a hacker in a network. For encryption, the client and the server need to share their private keys. Wouldn’t the hacker be able to grab those during their transmission and decrypt further messages as they please?

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/11554206

> Researchers have found two novel types of attacks that target the conditional branch predictor found in high-end Intel processors, which could be exploited to compromise billions of processors currently in use.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/11143989

> Fresh Social Engineering Attacks Resemble Tactics Used Against XZ Utils MaintainerMajor open-source software projects are warning that more pieces of code than XZ Utils may have been backdoored by attackers, based on ongoing supply-chain attack attempts that have targeted "popular JavaScript projects," apparently seeking to trick them into sharing code maintainer rights.

We've releasWe've released #PuTTY version 0.81. This is a SECURITY UPDATE, fixing a #vulnerability in ECDSA signing for #SSH.

If you've used a 521-bit ECDSA key (ecdsa-sha2-nistp521) with any previous version of PuTTY, consider it compromised! ed #PuTTY version 0.81. This is a SECURITY UPDATE, fixing a #vulnerability in ECDSA signing for #SSH.

If you've used a 521-bit ECDSA key (ecdsa-sha2-nistp521) with any previous version of PuTTY, consider it compromised!

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/10912691

> Researchers have demonstrated the "first native Spectre v2 exploit" for a new speculative execution side-channel flaw that impacts Linux systems running on many modern Intel processors. [...]

https://discuss.systems/@ricci/112247553557306560

The XZ Utils backdoor, discovered last week, and the Heartbleed security vulnerability ten years ago, share the same ultimate root cause. Both of them, and in fact all critical infrastructure open source projects, should be fixed with the same solution: ensure baseline funding for proper open source maintenance.

https://wetdry.world/@ari/112230288896956003

Spain's High Court has ordered the suspension of messaging app Telegram's services in the country after media companies complained it was allowing users to upload their content without permission, according to a court source.

The use of Telegram in Spain will be temporarily suspended from Monday after a request by media firms including Atresmedia (A3M.MC), opens new tab, EGEDA, Mediaset (GETVF.PK), opens new tab and Telefonica (TEF.MC), opens new tab.

Judge Santiago Pedraz agreed to block Telegram's services in Spain while the claims are investigated. It will be the responsibility of mobile phone providers to block Telegram's services, the court source said.

Telegram is the fourth most-used messaging service in Spain, according to competition watchdog CNMC. It was used by nearly 19% of Spaniards surveyed by CNMC.