Don’t Judge an Ebook by Its Cover

Interesting times lead to interesting opportunities. The current pandemic is proving no exception, but, sadly, it’s an opportunity for some attackers who have laid a rather cunning trap. As you no doubt know, supply chain security typically focuses on firmware and installers. However, in the course of researching vendor documentation, we saw a clever technique being utilized by attackers targeting critical infrastructure and industrial asset owners.

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Windows 10 Certificate Validation Bug Exposes a Fundamental Weakness

The announcement Tuesday from the NSA about the new cryptographic vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows operating system sent ripples of shock through our entire community. In case you missed it, this devastating vulnerability (CVE-2020-0601) allows attackers to bypass trust mechanisms to falsify certificates, making them appear to come from a trusted source. It also allows attackers to falsely authenticate themselves on vulnerable HTTPS...

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Sniffing Out Fakes: From Saffron in Marrakech to Digital Certificates

Eric Byres in Morocco
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