Weekly Cyber Security News 18/12/2020

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24

What an interesting week. I’m going to skip the issues over SolarWind breach and go for the usual non-sensationalist articles. The first, and one I so welcome along with many out there I’m sure is the final, and I mean final end of Flash. Yay.

• Goodbye to Flash – if you’re still running it, uninstall Flash Player now

Talking of Flash… Let’s revisit another hell hole of issues of maritime systems where security is usually a light dusting:

• Your ship comms app is “secured” with a Flash interface, doesn’t sanitise SQL inputs and leaks user data, you say?

Now, this is a little different and really attracted my attention. What do you do when you don’t have WiFi to send data? You thrash the memory bus:

• How to leak data via Wi-Fi when there”s no Wi-Fi chip: Boffin turns memory bus into covert data transmitter