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The CSIRT.CZ team has since summer of the year 2013 actively participated in the preparation and later also in the realization of the so far biggest European cybernetic exercise Cyber Europe 2014 which was already for the third time organized by the European Network and Information Security Agency – ENISA.

We would considerably enjoy it if the cryptography crises limited themselves to one per day. We know, however, that it is only a wishful thinking.

Unintentional exfiltration of keys

The Chinese manufacturer of electronics Lenovo went in his greed so far that he not only pre-installs the display of advertisement on newly installed notegooks but the installed adware of third parties called Superfish even injects javascript into the code of the page being browsed; the goal is to analyze the page and to target the advertisement better. While doing this it does not limit itself only on non-coded HTTP connection.

Window-Eyes is the so-called screen reader (reader of screen) for Microsoft Windows which is used by visually handicapped users, above all by totally blind and seriously visually handicapped users. Such software converts the content of the screen, e.g. of web pages, into the form of alternative output, most frequently as voice or Braille.

In the last year we noticed several interesting incidents and events which are certainly worth for use to come back to them in this way again. By the way, only the amount of incidents being solved increased from 495 for the year 2013 to 939 incidents in the last year. And these were often not only negligent events.

In the previous blogposts about the error “rom-0“ I was engaged in the procedure of how to “mend“ a vulnerable router, I analysed the spreading of this error and above all I referred to the web test which we in Laboratories CZ.NIC activated at the address http://rom-0.cz. The last blogpost on this topic attended to the development of number of vulnerable boxes in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia during the first four months from the beginning of our measurings.

Honeynet operated by the CZ.NIC association certainly does not have to be particularly introduced to the readers of this blog. Besides articles on this blog there are also accessible source codes of operated honeypots which you can see on our GitLab. In today´s article we will focus on attacks caught on the web honeypot Glastopf.

During past days the errors of bash interpreter called Shellshock shaded other messages including errrors in NSS influencing the verification of certificates in Firefox and Chrome. The matter concerned is another instance of not quite common vulnerability which, however, occurs repeatedly: Bleichenbacher´s attack on RSA with little public exponent, typically 3.