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A potential solution to Ransomware, the 15 year bug that cost CitiGroup $7 Million dollars, Dropbox’s new middle out compression & another flaw that affects all versions of Windows.

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CitiGroup hit with $7 million fine over software bug dating back to 1999

• CitiGroup, a large US Financial institution, is being fined for failing to properly report to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• According to the SEC, the error [PDF] resulted in the financial regulator being sent incomplete “blue sheet” information for a remarkable 15 years – from May 1999 to April 2014.
• The bank was required to send details of all stock transactions, and due to a bug, a number of branches were never included in those reports
• The details are quite amusing
• “The mistake was discovered by Citigroup itself when it was asked to send a large but precise chunk of trading data to the SEC in April 2014 and asked its technical support team to help identify which internal ID numbers they should run a request on.”
• “That team quickly noticed that some branches’ trades were not being included in the automated system and alerted those above them. Four days later a patch was in place, but it wasn’t until eight months later that the company received a formal report noting that the error had affected SEC reports going back more than a decade. The next month, January 2015, Citigroup fessed up to the SEC.”
• “It turned out that the error was a result of how the company introduced new alphanumeric branch codes. When the system was introduced in the mid-1990s, the program code filtered out any transactions that were given three-digit branch codes from 089 to 100 and used those prefixes for testing purposes.”
• So any transaction with a branch code in that range, was considered test data, and not reported to the government
• “But in 1998, the company started using alphanumeric branch codes as it expanded its business. Among them were the codes 10B, 10C and so on, which the system treated as being within the excluded range, and so their transactions were removed from any reports sent to the SEC.”
• “The SEC routinely sends requests to financial institutions asking them to send all details on transactions between specific dates as a way of checking that nothing untoward is going on. The coding error had resulted in Citigroup failing to send information on 26,810 transactions in over 2,300 such requests.”
• “The SEC was not impressed and said in a statement announcing the fine that the “failure to discover the coding error and to produce the missing data for many years potentially impacted numerous Commission investigations.””
• “Broker-dealers have a core responsibility to promptly provide the SEC with accurate and complete trading data for us to analyze during enforcement investigations,” said Robert Cohen, co-chief of the SEC enforcement division’s market abuse unit. “Citigroup did not live up to that responsibility for an inexcusably long period of time, and it must pay the largest penalty to date for blue sheet violations.”
• 7 Million seems like a relatively small fine for such a large screw up, but it does not appear to have been malicious.

New system to detect ransomware by looking at filesystem patterns

• “Our system is more of an early-warning system. It doesn’t prevent the ransomware from starting … it prevents the ransomware from completing its task … so you lose only a couple of pictures or a couple of documents rather than everything that’s on your hard drive, and it relieves you of the burden of having to pay the ransom,” said Nolen Scaife, a UF doctoral student and founding member of UF’s Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research.
• “Attacks most often show up in the form of an email that appears to be from someone familiar. The recipient clicks on a link in the email and unknowingly unleashes malware that encrypts his or her data. The next thing to appear is a message demanding the ransom, typically anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.”
• “It’s an incredibly easy way to monetize a bad use of software,” said Patrick Traynor, an associate professor in UF’s department of computer and information science and engineering at UF and also a member of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research. He and Scaife worked together on developing CryptoDrop.
• “We ran our detector against several hundred ransomware samples that were live,” Scaife said, “and in those case it detected 100 percent of those malware samples and it did so after only a median of 10 files were encrypted.”
• “About one-tenth of 1 percent of the files were lost,” Traynor said, “but the advantage is that it’s flexible. We don’t have to wait for that anti-virus update. If you have a new version of your ransomware, our system can detect that.”
• Video – Extortion extinction: Ransomware
  
• It seems like it would be fairly trivial to detect the pattern that ransomware uses. I imagine most ransomware creates a new file, named original.ext.locked and then encrypts the contents of the original file, then removes the original
• It is possible newer ransomware could use new patterns, like renaming files and overwriting in place, or encrypting files in random order instead of walking the directory tree to make it harder to detect
• Additional Coveragge: Phys.org

Dropbox open sources Lepton image compression algorithm, save 22% by losslessly compressing JPEGs

• “Lepton achieves a 22% savings reduction for existing JPEG images, by predicting coefficients in JPEG blocks and feeding those predictions as context into an arithmetic coder. Lepton preserves the original file bit-for-bit perfectly. It compresses JPEG files at a rate of 5 megabytes per second and decodes them back to the original bits at 15 megabytes per second, securely, deterministically, and in under 24 megabytes of memory.”
• Speed seems very slow, compression is 5 MB/s, and decompression is 15 MB/s
• It is not clear if the encoding can be multithreaded across many cores to increase speed, like xz can do. Even without that, in most cases you would be dealing with many image files at once, but even compressing many files at once, that is quite slow
• “We have used Lepton to encode 16 billion images saved to Dropbox, and are rapidly recoding our older images. Lepton has already saved Dropbox multiple petabytes of space.”
• The article has a very good description of how JPEG encoding works
• “The DC coefficient (brightness in each 8×8 block) takes up a lot of room (over 8%) in a typical iPhone photograph so it’s important to compress it well. Most image formats put the DC coefficients before any AC coefficients in the file format. Lepton gets a compression advantage by coding the DC as the last value in each block. Since the DCs are serialized last, there is a wealth of information from the AC coefficients available to predict the DC coefficient. By defining a good and reproducible prediction, we can subtract the actual DC coefficient from the predicted DC coefficient, and only encode the delta. Then in the future we can use the prediction along with the saved delta to get the original DC coefficient. In almost all cases, this technique results in a significantly reduced number of symbols to feed into our arithmetic coder.”
• “Lepton can decompress significantly faster than line-speed for typical consumer and business connections. Lepton is a fully streamable format, meaning the decompression can be applied to any file as that file is being transferred over the network. Hence, streaming overlaps the computational work of the decompression with the file transfer itself, hiding latency from the user.”
• Because it can be streamed, this means that mobile devices could work via a proxy, that compresses all JPEG content before transmitting it to the mobile device, then an application on the mobile device could decompression it and display the resulting JPEG

Flaw in Windows Printing subsystem affects all versions of Windows

• “A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows Print Spooler service does not properly validate print drivers while installing a printer from servers. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could use it to execute arbitrary code and take control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.”
• “Most organizations try to apply the principle of least privilege to the devices in their networks. This works pretty well for things like laptops or desktops since the hardware they use doesn’t change that often. However printers are a bit different. While they still need drivers, printers need to support virtually any user that wants to connect to them. As end-users move through a building, they naturally want to use the printer closest to them. Mobile users expect to be able to easily connect and use a printer when they come into the office. In addition, most organizations don’t standardize on a single printer, and will have multiple models and manufacturers often within a single network.”
• “So instead of having system administrators push all possible printer drivers to all workstations in the network, the solution was to develop a way to deliver the driver to a user device right before the printer is used. And this is where Point-and-Print showed up. This approach stores a shared driver on the printer or print server, and only the users of that printer receive the driver that they need. At first glance, this is a practical and simple solution to driver deployment. The user gets access to the printer driver they need without requiring an administrator – a nice win-win.”
• “By default, in corporate networks, network admins allow printers to deliver the necessary drivers to workstations connected to the network. These drivers are silently installed without any user interaction and run under the SYSTEM user, with all the available privileges.”
• The researchers managed to dissect a firmware update for an existing printer, and modify it to infect Windows clients that load its driver with malware
• The malware allowed them access to the target Windows client, as the SYSTEM user
• They detail a number of other ways this vulnerability could be exploited:
• Watering hole attacks:
• Backdooring an existing printer or printer server.
• Microsoft print server: driver path: c:\windows\system32\spool\drivers*\3...
• Linux/BSD cups server: check for share driver print$ in the configuration.
• Multiple vendors support Point-and-Print on the printer itself
• Re-flash printer with backdoored drivers.
• Create a fake print server and broadcast with auto discovery.
• Privilege escalation:
• Use the add printer as a privileged escalation mechanism to get system access.
• Mitm attack to the printer and inject the backdoored driver instead of the real one.
• Going more global with IPP and Webpnp. Send users email with a link, when clicked, it attempts to connect to the (fake?) printer in question, and results in the driver being installed on the target computer
• There is more detail in the blog post about infecting a computer remotely
• Researcher blog post
• Microsoft released a fix for this vulnerability as part of the July patch Tuesday
• Official Microsoft Bulletin
• Additional Coverage: softpedia

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• Microsoft wins landmark appeal over seizure of foreign emails
• Over 6000 redis installs found exposed directly to the Internet with no authentication
• Comcast Expands Usage Caps
• From the researcher who brought us the MD5 collision story last week, “Bypass AllTheThings”, 5 Application Whitelisting bypasses for Windows in one binary
• BitTorrent Launches News Network at Republican Convention
• Sega Saturn DRM cracked, 23 years after launch. Play games from USB
• MIT’s anonymous online communications protocol Riffle could beat Tor at its own game
• NBC/Universal patents new way to detect bittorrent swarms. Originally applied for in 2009, not clear if the technology is current or useful
• Tor Project, a Digital Privacy Group, Reboots With New Board
• New password reuse checking tool. Enter your username and password and see which sites it is reused on.
• Terms of Mozilla/Yahoo deal from 2014 say that if Yahoo is sold, and Mozilla doesn’t like the new owner, they still get paid $375 million/year until 2019, even if they switch search/advertising to someone else
• WebhostingTalk.com and other forums breached, databases for same on underground forum
• Database left open to internet with no authentication, researcher able to access images of various doors, locks, RFID access panels, and the controller board of an alarm system

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3D Printing just got a lot more approachable, cheap VR from Mattel, Google is killing off a fan favorite & bugs in your favorite mobile OS.

An Ex-Mozilla Team Unveils “Sense” in our Kickstarter of the week & more!

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• Kids will soon make their own toys with Mattel’s $300 ThingMaker 3D printer | Ars Technica
• 64-bit iPhones and iPads get stuck in a loop when set to January 1, 1970 | Ars Technica
• Android malware that can erase devices remotely being used in attacks
• TASS: Science & Space – Russia’s improved ballistic missiles to be tested as asteroid killers
• Google kills off Picasa to focus its efforts on Google Photos | PCWorld
• Ex-Mozilla Team Unveils “Sense,” An Intelligent, Secure Hub For The Smart Home | TechCrunch
• Sense – Personalized Intelligence for your Connected Home by Andreas Gal — Kickstarter

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The hottest Smartwatch at CES 2015 is running Open WebOS, we share the details. Tablets in cars & 3D printing with wood and other materials.

Plus some follow up & the Drone Rodeo!

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Exclusive: The hottest smartwatch of CES isn’t running Android Wear — it’s Open webOS | Android Central

We tracked down the Audi/LG watch — still officially nameless, by the way — in Las Vegas today, and we can exclusively reveal that it’s not running Android Wear as originally believed. In fact, it’s packing completely different software based on LG’s Open webOS.

• Wearing LG’s webOS smartwatch made me happy | The Verge

The most beautiful tablet you’ll ever own comes with an Audi Q7

While the primary purpose of the tablet is entertainment for your rear passengers, the Audi Tablet also controls most of the car’s electronic functions. Passengers in the Q7 can have a look at the current route via a map app and can even set a new waypoint and pass it to the main stack in the front via WiFi. Music choices, media access, speed and even data showing if your driver has been keeping up with the maintenance are all on tap. Charging and a serial port that interfaces with the car’s CANBus — for communication with the auto’s systems — are on the back of the device and a standard micro-USB port and headphone jack are, too

10.1-inch tablet being driven by a Tegra 4

This is the most insane wireless router in the history of mankind | The Verge

The router in question is the D-Link AC3200 Ultra Wi-Fi Router, and make no mistake: as these things go it’s more than solid. Six antennas, support for the latest 802.11 protocols, and speeds up to 3.2Gbps. And this is just one of D-Link’s new Ultra series (it’ll be available on Newegg tomorrow for $309.99).

But mostly it just looks bonkers.

MakerBot makes 3D printing more realistic with metal, wood and stone – CNET

MakerBot announced Tuesday here at the 2015 International CES that it’s using new PLA Composite Filaments made with composites of real metal, stone and wood. Basically, these materials, in powder form, are mixed with regular PLA filament to create a new special type of filament. As the result, the printed objects will provide more of the look and certain characteristics of the materials being used.

For example, an object printed using metal PLA filament can be magnetized and is heavier than the same object printed using regular pure-plastic PLA filaments.

In order to print the new materials, however, a new extruder is needed for each material type. The good news is all MakerBot’s fifth-generation 3D printers support a Smart Extruder, which can be easily swapped out.

FBI Director: Sony’s ‘Sloppy’ North Korean Hackers Revealed Their IP Addresses | WIRED

Speaking at a Fordham Law School cybersecurity conference Wednesday, Comey said that he has “very high confidence” in the FBI’s attribution of the attack to North Korea. And he named several of the sources of his evidence, including a “behavioral analysis unit” of FBI experts trained to psychologically analyze foes based on their writings and actions. He also said that the FBI compared the Sony attack with their own “red team” simulations to determine how the attack could have occurred. And perhaps most importantly, Comey now says that the hackers in the attack failed on multiple occasions to use the proxy servers that bounce their Internet connection through an obfuscating computer somewhere else in the world, revealing IP addresses that tied them to North Koreans.

In his statement Wednesday, Comey acknowledged the skepticism about the FBI’s attributions claims. But he responded that “they don’t have the facts that I have. They don’t see what I see.”

Racing in a Las Vegas Drone Rodeo — CES 2015 – YouTube

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We’re joined by a classroom full of special guests, we talk with the students from Penn Manor School District, where they’ve given every high school student a Linux laptop & integrated the students into the help desk. We get the inside scope on the challenges, roadblocks & successes of this large desktop Linux deployment.

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HP is breaking up, Facebook wants to be your wallet & Bill Gates thinks Bitcoin is better than cash.

Plus what is going on with Bitcoin? And are you ready for autonomous Linux powered drone boats?

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Hewlett-Packard Plans to Break in Two – WSJ

Hewlett-Packard plans to separate its personal-computer and printer businesses from its corporate hardware and services operations, the latest attempt by the technology company to improve its fortunes by breaking itself in two.

The company intends to announce the move on Monday, people familiar with the plan said. It is expected to make the split through a tax-free distribution of shares to stockholders next year, said one of the people.

If the division goes off as planned, it would give rise to two publicly traded companies, each with more than $50 billion in annual revenue.

The impending move, first reported Sunday by The Wall Street Journal, set off a round of speculation in the industry about whether the separation could lead to more deal making.

In 2012, under current H-P Chief Executive Meg Whitman, the company reorganized itself to combine the PC business with its more profitable printer operation, helping pave the way for the current plan.

Ms. Whitman is slated to be chairman of the PC and printer business, to be known as HP Inc., and CEO of the other company, to be called Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, said one of the people familiar with the plan. Current lead independent director
Patricia Russo will be chairman of the enterprise company, while Dion Weisler,
an executive in the PC and printer operation, is to be CEO of that business, this person said.

Hacked Screenshots Show Friend-To-Friend Payments Feature Hidden In Facebook Messenger | TechCrunch

Facebook Messenger is all set up to allow friends to send each other money. All Facebook has to do is turn on the feature, according to screenshots and video taken using iOS app exploration developer tool Cycript by Stanford computer science student Andrew Aude.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on the company’s Q2 earnings call that “over time there will be some overlap between [Messenger] and payments. […] The payments piece will be a part of what will help drive the overall success and help people share with each other and interact with businesses.” However, he urged Wall Street not to get too foamy at the mouth because it may be awhile since “there’s so much groundwork for us to do.”

He urged analysts and investors to revise their estimates of Facebook’s revenue if they expected this to come quickly. “To the extent that your models or anything reflect that we might be doing that, I strongly encourage you to adjust that, because we’re not going to. We’re going to take the time to do this in the way that is going to be right over multiple years” Zuckerberg concluded.

Bill Gates: Bitcoin Is ‘Better Than Currency’

After long remaining mostly mum on Bitcoin, Microsoft’s co-founder Bill Gates has spoken. At a financial-services industry conference in Boston, he threw his weight behind the controversial crypto currency. Well, at least as a low-cost payments solution. … “Bitcoin is exciting because it shows how cheap it can be,” he told Erik Schatzker during a Bloomberg TV’s Smart Street show interview yesterday (video). “Bitcoin is better than currency in that you don’t have to be physically in the same place and, of course, for large transactions, currency can get pretty inconvenient.” … While he seems relatively bullish on how inexpensive transacting in Bitcoin can be, Gates isn’t singing the praises of its anonymity. The billionaire alluded in an oblique, somewhat rambling fashion to some of the more nefarious anonymous uses associated with Bitcoin.

• Gates talks Nadella and how Office needs to be dramatically better

The conversation then switched to new Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and whether this is something the Windows maker should be focusing on, and how Gates feels the new man in charge is doing in his job. Although Gates stated that he’s “very happy with what he’s doing,” curiously he went on to say that he believes the company needs to make Microsoft Office dramatically better. We’re not sure exactly what that means, but Gates was very animated about it, and he’s apparently making sure the company heeds this advice.

BG: Certainly, Microsoft should do as well or better, but of all the things Microsoft needs to do in terms of making people more productive in their work, helping them communicate in new ways. It’s a long list of opportunities Microsoft has to innovate, and taking Office and making it dramatically better would be really high on the list, that’s the kind of thing that I’m trying to make sure they move fast on. I’m very happy with what he’s doing. I see a new sense of energy. There’s a lot of opportunity there. Some things the company isn’t the leader on, and he sees he needs to change that.

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US Navy Develops Robot Boat Swarm To Overwhelm Enemies

“Jeremy Hsu reports that the US Navy has been testing a large-scale swarm of autonomous boats designed to overwhelm enemies. In the test, large ship that the Navy sometimes calls a high-value unit, HVU, is making its way down the river’s thalweg, escorted by 13 small guard boats. Between them, they carry a variety of payloads, loud speakers and flashing lights, a .50-caliber machine gun and a microwave direct energy weapon or heat ray. Detecting the enemy vessel with radar and infrared sensors, they perform a series of maneuvers to encircle the craft, coming close enough to the boat to engage it and near enough to one another to seal off any potential escape or access to the ship they are guarding. They blast warnings via loudspeaker and flash their lights. The HVU is now free to safely move away.

Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder, chief of the Office of Naval Research (ONR), points out that a maneuver that required 40 people had just dropped down to just one. “Think about it as replicating the functions that a human boat pilot would do. We’ve taken that capability and extended it to multiple [unmanned surface vehicles] operating together within that, we’ve designed team behaviors,” says Robert Brizzolara. The timing of the briefing happens to coincide with the 14-year anniversary of the bombing of the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen that killed 17 sailors. It’s an anniversary that Klunder observes with a unique sense of responsibility. “If we had this capability there on that day. We could have saved that ship. I never want to see the USS Cole happen again.”

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Former mortal enemies Apple and IBM team up to push iOS into the enterprise, Google+ drops their real name restriction, but is it too late?

Plus a big boost for Linux games, and the Japanese woman who was arrested for 3D printing her lady parts.

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Apple and IBM Team Up For Major Enterprise Mobility Partnership

IBM will begin selling iOS devices to its corporate customers and will also create more than 100 industry-specific native apps that are built from the ground up for the iPhone and the iPad. IBM will provide cloud services optimized for iOS as well, with capabilities like device management, security, analytics, and mobile integration.

According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, Apple began speaking with IBM a couple of years ago about possible partnerships, and the enterprise arena is where the two companies felt they could come together. “It takes the best of Apple and the best of IBM and it puts those together,” he said. “There’s no overlap, no competition, they’re totally complementary, and more than anything, it focuses on the enterprise customer.”

IBM’s first apps, tailored specifically to various industries like retail, healthcare, banking, travel, transportation, and more, will be coming this fall, with additional apps following in 2015. The company also has plans to roll out its MobileFirst Platform for iOS, with benefits like analytics, cloud storage, fleet-scale device management, a private app catalog, and data and transaction security services.

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• Apple – Press Info – Apple and IBM Forge Global Partnership to Transform Enterprise Mobility

Google+ rescinds real-name mandate

In an anonymously written Google+ post, the company explained the reversal saying that while the former policy “helped create a community made up of real people,” it also reduced the participation of people who were not comfortable using their real names on the social network. As Google tied Google+ deeper into many of its services, including YouTube comments and its user accounts, the policy became an increasingly divisive issue.

At the time of Google+’s launch, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt supported the move by telling CNBC, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”

Vic Gundotra, the former Google+ chief, staunchly defended the social network but he left the company earlier this year. At the time of Google+’s launch, he likened the restriction to a restaurant that “doesn’t allow people who aren’t wearing shirts to enter.”

Unity Looking To Expand Linux Game Pad Support In Unity 5

Unity Linux developer Levi Bard has reached out to ask the community for help in gathering a comprehensive list of game pad mappings.

Unity 5 will be supporting SDL style mappings, which should make it easier for developers to make use of existing work that’s out there in the community. It will also be supporting SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG, which amongst other things is used by Steam Big Picture mode to communicate its game pad bindings to games.

3D-printed cadavers revolutionise anatomical education – CNET

The kit consists of all the major body parts required to learn the anatomy of the limbs, chest, abdomen, head and neck — all without containing any actual human body parts.

The 3D Printed Anatomy Series is created from real humans. First, the team performed scans, either X-ray CT scans or surface scans. These scans are then used to create a printable 3D model of the body parts, which are then sent to a high-resolution 3D printer and printed either in full colour in a plaster-like powder or plastic.

Japanese artist cuffed for disseminating 3D ladyparts files • The Register

A Japanese artist has been arrested for disseminating “3D printable design files” of her own genitalia, 3DPrint.com reports.

Megumi Igarashi, 42, was cuffed by Tokyo Metropolitan Police for allegedly supplying virtual ladyparts via email to a “30-year-old man in Kagawa Prefecture” and “many others” back in March.

Igarashi’s ultimate aim is to make the vagina more “casual” in a country where it’s considered bad form to even mention ladies’ inner sanctums.

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We’ve been looking ahead at the future of technology in our daily lives, we wrap up this series with a look at 3D Printing, and why they just might be modern day replicators.

Plus we invite live stream viewers to call in and share their thoughts for the everyday technology taking a big leap in the next decade!

We end on a true high-note for the show, and share a quick story about a “hot” incentive a major insurance came up with to motivate their sales team.

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