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Systematization of Vulnerability Discovery Knowledge: Review
Systematization of Vulnerability Discovery Knowledge Review Protocol Nuthan Munaiah and Andrew Meneely Department of Software Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623 {nm6061,axmvse}@rit.edu February 12, 2019 1 Introduction As more aspects of our daily lives depend on technology, the software that supports this technology must be secure. We, as users, almost subconsciously assume the software we use to always be available to serve our requests while preserving the confidentiality and integrity of our information. Unfortunately, incidents involving catastrophic software vulnerabilities such as Heartbleed (in OpenSSL), Stagefright (in Android), and EternalBlue (in Windows) have made abundantly clear that software, like other engineered creations, is prone to mistakes. Over the years, Software Engineering, as a discipline, has recognized the potential for engineers to make mistakes and has incorporated processes to prevent such mistakes from becoming exploitable vulnerabilities. Developers leverage a plethora of processes, techniques, and tools such as threat modeling, static and dynamic analyses, unit/integration/fuzz/penetration testing, and code reviews to engineer secure software. These practices, while effective at identifying vulnerabilities in software, are limited in their ability to describe the engineering failures that may have led to the introduction of vulnerabilities. Fortunately, as researchers propose empirically-validated metrics to characterize historical vulnerabilities, the factors that may have led to the introduction of vulnerabilities emerge. Developers must be made aware of these factors to help them proactively consider security implications of the code that they contribute. In other words, we want developers to think like an attacker (i.e. inculcate an attacker mindset) to proactively discover vulnerabilities. -
Internet Security Threat Report VOLUME 21, APRIL 2016 TABLE of CONTENTS 2016 Internet Security Threat Report 2
Internet Security Threat Report VOLUME 21, APRIL 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2016 Internet Security Threat Report 2 CONTENTS 4 Introduction 21 Tech Support Scams Go Nuclear, 39 Infographic: A New Zero-Day Vulnerability Spreading Ransomware Discovered Every Week in 2015 5 Executive Summary 22 Malvertising 39 Infographic: A New Zero-Day Vulnerability Discovered Every Week in 2015 8 BIG NUMBERS 23 Cybersecurity Challenges For Website Owners 40 Spear Phishing 10 MOBILE DEVICES & THE 23 Put Your Money Where Your Mouse Is 43 Active Attack Groups in 2015 INTERNET OF THINGS 23 Websites Are Still Vulnerable to Attacks 44 Infographic: Attackers Target Both Large and Small Businesses 10 Smartphones Leading to Malware and Data Breaches and Mobile Devices 23 Moving to Stronger Authentication 45 Profiting from High-Level Corporate Attacks and the Butterfly Effect 10 One Phone Per Person 24 Accelerating to Always-On Encryption 45 Cybersecurity, Cybersabotage, and Coping 11 Cross-Over Threats 24 Reinforced Reassurance with Black Swan Events 11 Android Attacks Become More Stealthy 25 Websites Need to Become Harder to 46 Cybersabotage and 12 How Malicious Video Messages Could Attack the Threat of “Hybrid Warfare” Lead to Stagefright and Stagefright 2.0 25 SSL/TLS and The 46 Small Business and the Dirty Linen Attack Industry’s Response 13 Android Users under Fire with Phishing 47 Industrial Control Systems and Ransomware 25 The Evolution of Encryption Vulnerable to Attacks 13 Apple iOS Users Now More at Risk than 25 Strength in Numbers 47 Obscurity is No Defense -
Compromised Connections
COMPROMISED CONNECTIONS OVERCOMING PRIVACY CHALLENGES OF THE MOBILE INTERNET The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and many other international and regional treaties recognize privacy as a fundamental human right. Privacy A WORLD OF INFORMATION underpins key values such as freedom of expression, freedom of association, and freedom of speech, IN YOUR MOBILE PHONE and it is one of the most important, nuanced and complex fundamental rights of contemporary age. For those of us who care deeply about privacy, safety and security, not only for ourselves but also for our development partners and their missions, we need to think of mobile phones as primary computers As mobile phones have transformed from clunky handheld calling devices to nifty touch-screen rather than just calling devices. We need to keep in mind that, as the storage, functionality, and smartphones loaded with apps and supported by cloud access, the networks these phones rely on capability of mobiles increase, so do the risks to users. have become ubiquitous, ferrying vast amounts of data across invisible spectrums and reaching the Can we address these hidden costs to our digital connections? Fortunately, yes! We recommend: most remote corners of the world. • Adopting device, data, network and application safety measures From a technical point-of-view, today’s phones are actually more like compact mobile computers. They are packed with digital intelligence and capable of processing many of the tasks previously confined -
Designed for Versatility
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Mind the Gap: Dissecting the Android Patch Gap | Ben Schlabs
Mind the Gap – Dissecting the Android patch gap Ben Schlabs <[email protected]> SRLabs Template v12 Corporate Design 2016 Allow us to take you on two intertwined journeys This talk in a nutshell § Wanted to understand how fully-maintained Android phones can be exploited Research § Found surprisingly large patch gaps for many Android vendors journey – some of these are already being closed § Also found Android exploitation to be unexpectedly difficult § Wanted to check thousands of firmwares for the presence of Das Logo Horizontal hundreds of patches — Pos / Neg Engineering § Developed and scaled a rather unique analysis method journey § Created an app for your own analysis 2 3 Android patching is a known-hard problem Patching challenges Patch ecosystems § Computer OS vendors regularly issue patches OS vendor § Users “only” have to confirm the installation of § Microsoft OS patches Patching is hard these patches § Apple Endpoints & severs to start with § Still, enterprises consider regular patching § Linux distro among the most effortful security tasks § “The moBile ecosystem’s diversity […] OS Chipset Phone Android contriButes to security update complexity and vendor vendor vendor phones inconsistency.” – FTC report, March 2018 [1] The nature of Telco § Das Logo HorizontalAndroid makes Patches are handed down a long chain of — Pos / Negpatching so typically four parties Before reaching the user much more § Only some devices get patched (2016: 17% [2]). difficult We focus our research on these “fully patched” phones Our research question – -
The Ultimate Ultra-Portables for Business a Big Experience in a Small Form Factor
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Automating Patching of Vulnerable Open-Source Software Versions in Application Binaries
Automating Patching of Vulnerable Open-Source Software Versions in Application Binaries Ruian Duan:, Ashish Bijlani:, Yang Ji:, Omar Alrawi:, Yiyuan Xiong˚, Moses Ike:, Brendan Saltaformaggio,: and Wenke Lee: fruian, ashish.bijlani, yang.ji, alrawi, [email protected], [email protected] [email protected], [email protected] : Georgia Institute of Technology, ˚ Peking University Abstract—Mobile application developers rely heavily on open- while ensuring backward compatibility, and test for unin- source software (OSS) to offload common functionalities such tended side-effects. For the Android platform, Google has as the implementation of protocols and media format playback. initiated the App Security Improvement Program (ASIP) [21] Over the past years, several vulnerabilities have been found in to notify developers of vulnerable third-party libraries in popular open-source libraries like OpenSSL and FFmpeg. Mobile use. Unfortunately, many developers, as OSSPolice [15] and applications that include such libraries inherit these flaws, which LibScout [4] show, do not update or patch their application, make them vulnerable. Fortunately, the open-source community is responsive and patches are made available within days. However, which leaves end-users exposed. Android developers mainly mobile application developers are often left unaware of these use Java and C/C++ [1] libraries. While Derr et al. [14] flaws. The App Security Improvement Program (ASIP) isa show that vulnerable Java libraries can be fixed by library- commendable effort by Google to notify application developers level update, their C/C++ counterparts, which contain many of these flaws, but recent work has shown that many developers more documented security bugs in the National Vulnerability do not act on this information. -
Supporting Non-Functional Requirements Elicitation with Templates
Pozna´nUniversity of Technology Institute of Computing Science SUPPORTING NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION WITH TEMPLATES Sylwia Kopczy´nska A dissertation submitted to the Council of the Faculty of Computing in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Supervisor Jerzy Nawrocki, PhD, Dr Habil. Auxiliary supervisor Mirosław Ochodek, PhD Pozna´n,Poland 2018 ABSTRACT Non-functional requirements (NFRs) state conditions under which functionality is useful (they concern perfor- mance, security, availability, etc.). Unfortunately, they are frequently neglected, especially those NFRs that are difficult to write or seem ostensibly obvious. Such behavior is an important risk factor in software projects as, in many cases, improper management of NFRs is one of the root causes of project failures. One of the approaches to support elicitation of NFRs is using a catalog of templates. Templates are natural lan- guage statements with some parameters (gaps) to fill in and optional parts to select during elicitation. Many authors say that templates improve consistency and testability of requirements, and that they reduce am- biguity. Although experts formulate these claims, some recent studies show that practitioners are afraid of using NFR templates in their projects. It is not clear for them what are the benefits and costs of using NFR templates. In the traditional approaches to software development, the necessity to elicit NFRs seemed rather obvious. Re- cently, agile approaches have gained popularity but it would be vain to look for agile practices that explicitly refer to NFRs. Therefore, a question arises whether NFRs are still important. Another issue is user feedback left in online app stores. -
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VULNERABLE by DESIGN: MITIGATING DESIGN FLAWS in HARDWARE and SOFTWARE Konoth, R.K
VU Research Portal VULNERABLE BY DESIGN: MITIGATING DESIGN FLAWS IN HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE Konoth, R.K. 2020 document version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Link to publication in VU Research Portal citation for published version (APA) Konoth, R. K. (2020). VULNERABLE BY DESIGN: MITIGATING DESIGN FLAWS IN HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE. General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. E-mail address: [email protected] Download date: 07. Oct. 2021 VULNERABLE BY DESIGN: MITIGATING DESIGN FLAWS IN HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PH.D. THESIS RADHESH KRISHNAN KONOTH VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM, 2020 Faculty of Science The research reported in this dissertation was conducted at the Faculty of Science — at the Department of Computer Science — of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam This work was supported by the MALPAY consortium, consisting of the Dutch national police, ING, ABN AMRO, Rabobank, Fox-IT, and TNO. -
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