The IronBox Team Blog

Hacker Thrown in Jail for Reporting Police Security Flaws

Here’s what went down: a student discovered some vulnerabilities in the Tetra (Slovenian) police communication systems and reported them to the police. After waiting a year and with no remediation to the flaws, this student went ahead and publicly disclosed the

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SnapChat Financial Details Leaked

A leaked SnapChat deck that revealed revenue and other financials were (accidentally?) leaked, according to a TechCrunch article at http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/26/snapchat-series-f/. If it was an Office document some simple DRM could have stopped this, but this has got me thinking about how

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123456 … Is Still the Most Common Password

ZDNet reports that the most common password back in 2014 is still the most common today: 123456. http://www.zdnet.com/article/these-are-the-worst-passwords-from-the-linkedin-hack/ Twitter’s Digits seems pretty interesting and looks promising if you’re interested in a way to replace passwords. –Kevin

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Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR)

Microsoft publishes a security intelligence report every 6 months or so. They pull data from lots and lots of data points (especially their SmartScreen filter for Internet Explorer and Edge) so they have some unique insight that others don’t. Highly

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Looks like Data Breaches Everywhere!

Whoa, looks like data breach activity has really picked up this week. Here are some of the latest victims, and these are major services: Spotify Minecraft Beautiful People –Kevin

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Opera Web Browser Just Added Free VPN!

Opera just announced that they are adding free built-in VPN to their Opera web browser. This is great! Why didn’t anyone think of this before (Chrome, Firefox and IE/Edge are soon follow for sure). –Kevin P.S. Even though it does

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The FBI Purchased an 0-Day to Hack iPhone

A lot of folks in the industry suspected this, and this article supports the notion that the FBI purchased a 0-day vulnerability (a vulnerability not previously known in the public) to hack into the San Bernardino iPhone. Check it out

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Phishing Scams Getting More and More Popular

Been hearing and more about scams like this where someone at a company receives a fraudulent email that tries to trick them into sending sensitive employee data or transfer money. Here’s one in our neck of the woods out here

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WhatsApp Now Encrypting Messages?!

I thought they already did? Anyways, better late than never, interesting read from both a strategy and technical perspective: http://www.wired.com/2016/04/forget-apple-vs-fbi-whatsapp-just-switched-encryption-billion-people/ –Kevin

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FBI Drops Their Case Against Apple, Helps Arkansas

Looks like the FBI didn’t need Apple’s help after all (http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/28/justice-department-drops-lawsuit-against-apple-over-iphone-unlocking-case/). They were able to unlock the infamous San Bernardino iPhone, and now they are helping US states requesting for help unlocking suspect iPhones (good). I read  (not in this

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