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Infosec bits for week 37/19

- Roderick Mooi

  1. Who’ll benefit from the Regis University cyberattack? The Denver school’s cybersecurity students. [Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post]
  2. Ransomware shuts down classes, childcare centers in Flagstaff, Arizona [Colin Wood, Scoop News Group]
    - see also: Back to school: With latest attack, ransomware cancels classes in Flagstaff
  3. More than 99% of cyberattacks rely on human interaction [Help Net Security]
  4. Cyber-security incident at US power grid entity linked to unpatched firewalls [Catalin Cimpanu, Zero Day]
  5. MANRS Observatory: Monitoring the State of Internet Routing Security [Andrei Robachevsky, Internet Society]
    - find it here: observatory.manrs.org/
  6. BMC Vulnerabilities Expose Supermicro Servers to Remote USB-Attacks [Mohit Kumar, Teh Hacker News]
  7. Exim TLS Flaw Opens Email Servers to Remote ‘Root’ Code Execution Attacks [Mohit Kumar, Teh Hacker News]
  8. Security hole opens a billion Android users to advanced SMS phishing attacks [Help Net Security]
  9. Simjacker: a brand new mobile vulnerability exploited by surveillance companies for espionage operation [Andrea Fortuna]
  10. Twitter disables SMS-to-tweet feature after its CEO got hacked last week [Catalin Cimpanu, Zero Day]
  11. Why 5G requires new approaches to cybersecurity [Tom Wheeler and David Simpson, The Brookings Institution]