It is well known by now that encryption without authentication is insufficient, and many chosen-ciphertext attacks on improperly authenticated ciphertexts are now commonplace. Authenticated encryption—constructions that both encrypt and authenticate plaintexts in one sitting—are … | Continue reading
Last week the Network Security Research Lab at 360 released a blog post on an obfuscated backdoor written in Go named Blackrota. They claim that the Blackrota backdoor is available for both x86/x86-64 architectures which is no surprise given how capable Golang’s cross compilation … | Continue reading
A fast pseudorandom generator for KASLR A recent patchset proposed for the Linux KASLR randomizes not only the kernel base address, but also reorders every function at boot time. As such, it no longer suffices to leak an arbitrary kernel function pointer, or so the logic goes.Alo … | Continue reading
Overview It has been almost six months since an eye opening vulnerability in Microsoft Windows RDP CVE 2019-0708, dubbed BlueKeep, was patched. Today, Security Researcher Kevin Beaumont posted a Twitter thread reporting BSODs (Blue Screen of Death) across his network of BlueKeep … | Continue reading