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Samsung Galaxy S22 hacked in 55 seconds on Pwn2Own Day 3
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On the third day of Pwn2Own, contestants hacked the Samsung Galaxy S22 a fourth time since the start of the competition, and this time they did it in just 55 seconds.
Security researchers representing penetration test provider Pentest Limited pulled this off after demoing a zero-day bug part of a successful Improper Input Validation attack against Samsung’s flagship device on Thursday.
This earned them $25,000, 50% of the total cash award, as this was the fourth (and last) time the Galaxy S22 was hacked during the Pwn2Own Toronto 2022 contest.
Tri Dang and Toan Pham of Qrious Secure also tried bypassing the smartphone’s security protection but failed to demonstrate their exploit during the time allotted for their attempt.
On the first day of Pwn2Own Toronto, the STAR Labs team and a security researcher only known as Chim demoed two other zero-day exploits in successful attacks targeting the Galaxy S22.
In all four cases, the smartphones were running the latest Android OS version with all available updates installed, according to the contest rules.
Tri Dang and Toan Pham of Qrious Secure also tried bypassing the smartphone’s security protection but failed to demonstrate their exploit during the time allotted for their attempt.
On the first day of Pwn2Own Toronto, the STAR Labs team and a security researcher only known as Chim demoed two other zero-day exploits in successful attacks targeting the Galaxy S22.
In all four cases, the smartphones were running the latest Android OS version with all available updates installed, according to the contest rules.
On the fourth day of the competition, the contestants will demo new zero-days in multiple consumer device categories, including printers, wireless routers, and network-attached storage.
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Angry IT administrator destroys employer’s databases; sentenced to 7 years in prison
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Han Bing, a former database manager for Lianjia, a major Chinese real estate agency, was given a 7-year prison term for breaking into company computers and erasing data.
Bing is accused of carrying out the conduct in June 2018, when he reportedly accessed the company’s finance system using his administrator rights and “root” account and deleted all previously saved data from two database servers and two application servers.
Large elements of Lianjia’s operations were immediately crippled as a result, leaving tens of thousands of workers without pay for an extended length of time and necessitating a data restoration effort that cost about $30,000.
However, because Lianjia has thousands of offices, employs over 120,000 brokers, owns 51 companies, and has an estimated $6 billion market value, the indirect costs from the firm’s economic disruption were significantly more detrimental.
examination of the staff
H. Bing was one of the five primary suspects in the event involving the data deletion, according to records made public by the court of the People’s Procuratorate of Haidian District, Beijing.
When the administrator refused to reveal his laptop password to the company’s inspectors, suspicions were quickly aroused.
Chinese media outlets who reprinted portions of the disclosed documents explain that “Han Bing stated that his computer had confidential data and the password could only be handed to official authorities, or would only accept entering it personally and being present during the checks.”
The checks were solely carried out to evaluate the response of the five employees who had access to the system because, as the investigators testified in court, they knew that such an operation wouldn’t leave any records on the laptops.
Finally, the experts were able to pinpoint the activity to particular internal IPs and MAC addresses after retrieving access records from the servers. The inspectors even collected WiFi network logs and timestamps, which they afterwards compared against CCTV footage to validate their suspicions.
The forensic expert hired by the company concluded that Bing had wiped the databases using the “shred” and “rm” commands. Rm deletes the files’ symbolic links, whereas shred overwrites the data three times with different patterns to make it unrecoverable.
Unhappy employee?
Unexpectedly, Bing had regularly warned his employer and superiors about security flaws in the finance system, even emailing other administrators to express his concerns.
He was mostly disregarded, nevertheless, as the departmental administrators never gave their approval for the security project he wanted to oversee.
This was supported by the testimony of the director of ethics at Lianjia, who told the court that Han Bing frequently argued with his superiors because he believed his organisational suggestions weren’t valued.
A similar incident occurred in September 2021 when a former employee of a credit union in New York deleted approximately 21.3GB of records in a 40-minute rampage as retaliation for her managers terminating her.
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Internet Explorer 11 support will no longer be offered by WordPress.
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WordPress, the most well-known and widely used blogging platform, is thinking about removing support for Internet Explorer 11 when its usage falls below 1%.
WordPress has discovered that the cumulative usage of IE 11 is less than 1% using the following three metrics:
according to StatCounter’s GlobalStats, 0.71%.
from W3 Counter, 1.2%
from WordPress.com, 0.46%
When WordPress stopped supporting Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 in 2017, these usage figures were comparable.
WordPress plans to discontinue support for Internet Explorer 11 in the future due to the low number of users and the significant expense of maintaining the browser.
“Regarding the present WordPress user experience, the majority of WordPress users ought to be aware by now that a flag was introduced to BrowseHappy around 13 months ago to not recommend IE. In connection with this, the entire IE11 experience is subpar and comes with a significant maintenance cost for developers “Last week, WordPress clarified in a blog post.
WordPress is requesting feedback from individuals and organisations that still use the browser by March 18th in order to formulate their strategies for ceasing support.
WordPress is not the only platform to stop supporting IE 11.
Microsoft Teams’ web app will no longer be supported by Internet Explorer, and Microsoft 365 would stop supporting it on August 17, 2021, according to a 2020 August Microsoft announcement.
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Major Canadian banks experience a bizarre, hours-long outage
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Major Canadian banks fell unavailable for several hours, denying consumers access to e-transfers, online and mobile banking, and other services.
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Scotiabank, Bank of Montreal, and Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) are among the institutions apparently affected by the outage (CIBC).
For many, online banking and e-Transfers are not working.
Yesterday, the main banks in Canada went offline, making it difficult for many people to access e-Transfers, online, and mobile banking services.
The number of reports of people experiencing problems accessing their online banking peaked on Wednesday between 5 and 6 p.m. Eastern time, while BleepingComputer is still receiving an influx of these reports today:
An RBC spokesman acknowledged that “we are currently having technical challenges with our online and mobile banking, as well as our phone services.”
“We have no ETA to offer at this time, but our specialists are looking into it and striving to fix it as soon as they can. We value your tolerance.”
Customers continued to report problems a few hours later, within 30 minutes of RBC declaring that all systems were operating normally:
Andrew Currie, an RBC client, stated that the disruption left him without “access to my money at the grocery store” and forced him to wait in line for the cash register for 30 minutes.
Customers of BMO also noticed that the bank’s “Global Money Transfer service” was unavailable “all day” and that transfers were being automatically denied without any apparent cause. Such customers were advised to contact customer care by a BMO representative.
Inconsistencies with their internet banking were not acknowledged by CIBC.
Customers were apparently locked out of the TD Bank mobile banking app, and customer support agents said they “haven’t been told of recent concerns with our online service through EasyWeb.”
According to a TD Bank representative speaking to BleepingComputer, the bank had no significant system issues or outages.
It’s unclear at this moment whether some people’s difficulties at the ATMs were caused by the outage. According to an RBC staffer, the customer experiencing ATM problems is using an old debit card:
Some transfers are subject to rules under the Emergencies Act.
Although the reason for the outage is unknown, its timing is very intriguing because it comes only a few days after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used the Emergencies Act in the midst of ongoing “Freedom Convoy” rallies.
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland detailed the new rules that payment service providers must follow in accordance with the recently implemented Emergencies Act on Monday during a press briefing on Parliament Hill.
Additionally, without a court ruling and without risking civil liability, the Emergencies Act gives banks the power to freeze the accounts of people and companies they believe to be connected to the illegal blockades.
However, as the Deputy PM notes, since banks are currently required to report to FINTRAC, it is still unclear how new legislation will cause a planned or unanticipated outage.
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