Cybersecurity News Roundup, August 12 - 18
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Best news, articles and scientific papers published since August 12 till 18 are below.

 

Bypassing IP Based Blocking with AWS API Gateway: https://rhinosecuritylabs.com/aws/bypassing-ip-based-blocking-aws/.
 

A security vulnerability related to encryption on Bluetooth BR/EDR connections:

https://www.bluetooth.com/security/statement-key-negotiation-of-bluetooth/;

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity19/presentation/antonioli.

Researches made a separate webpage: https://knobattack.com/.


Netflix has discovered several resource exhaustion vectors affecting a variety of third-party HTTP/2 implementations: https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/third-party/2019-002.md;

https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/605641/;

https://blog.cloudflare.com/on-the-recent-http-2-dos-attacks/.
 

From email to phone number, a new OSINT approach: https://www.martinvigo.com/email2phonenumber/.

SSRF demonstration website: https://application.security/.

Threat hunting using DNS firewalls and data enrichment: https://blog.redteam.pl/2019/08/threat-hunting-dns-firewall.html.

Cross-Router Covert Channels: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/woot19-paper_ovadia.pdf.


Point Break: A Study of Bandwidth Denial-of-Service Attacks against Tor: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec19-jansen.pdf.


Kaspersky got into a controversy: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/08/kaspersky-av-injected-unique-id-into-webpages-even-in-incognito-mode/.


An Open (free of charge) book on C++ Parallel Programming with Threading Building Blocks: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-4842-4398-5.

 

NSFW: https://gizmodo.com/buttplug-hacker-talks-security-consent-and-why-he-hac-1837252628.

 

Repositories:
https://github.com/laserallan/malloc_geiger

https://github.com/paulknysh/blackbox