Infosec Decoded #9: DoS-able Regular Expressions

with @djhardb, @infosecirvin, @KaitlynGuru, @sambowne, and Alan Wennersten.

Mar 12, 2021

Elizabeth Biddlecome @djhardb

How China’s attack on Microsoft escalated into a “reckless” hacking spree Hackers Are Swarming Microsoft Exchange Hackers breach 150,000 security cameras, exposing Tesla, jails and hospitals Massive camera hack exposes the growing reach and intimacy of American surveillance Microsoft's GitHub under fire after disappearing proof-of-concept exploit for critical Microsoft Exchange vuln

Irvin Lemus @infosecirvin

T-Mobile Is Taking All of Your Sweet, Sweet Data… Unless You Tell It to Stop OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg – all services unavailable Latest Windows 10 update is causing BSOD crashes

Kaitlyn Handelman @KaitlynGuru

Regexploit: DoS-able Regular Expressions Hubble Sees New Atmosphere Forming on a Rocky Exoplanet Think cryptocurrency is bad? NFTs are even worse.

Alan Wennersten

6 Questions Officials Still Haven’t Answered After Weeks of Hearings on the Capitol Attack Gig companies fear a worker shortage, despite a recession Wait, What? MIPS Becomes RISC-V

Sam Bowne @sambowne

First NFT artwork at auction sells for staggering $69 million I Sold a Tweet About My Future Cat on the Blockchain and Helped Kill the Earth in the Process What's An NFT? And Why Are People Paying Millions To Buy Them? Broken process of F5 BIG-IP devices Leaked texts contradict DeSantis's claims about vaccine scandal