Amazon quietly discloses a security incident, USPS finally fixes a vulnerability they knew about a year ago, and rowhammer is back with a vengeance ! All that coming up now on ThreatWire. #threatwire #hak5


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Links:
Amazon
https://www.cyberscoop.com/amazon-keeps-tight-lipped-pre-black-friday-security-incident/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-leaks-users-email-addresses-due-to-technical-error/
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/amazon-customers-names-and-email-addresses-disclosed-by-website-error/
https://betanews.com/2018/11/21/amazon-discloses-names-and-addreses/

USPS
https://www.zdnet.com/article/usps-finally-fixes-website-flaw-that-exposed-60-million-users-data/
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/11/usps-site-exposed-data-on-60-million-users/
https://www.cnet.com/news/usps-reportedly-fixes-website-bug-that-exposed-data-of-60m-users/
https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/usps-data-breach.html
https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library-files/2018/IT-AR-19-001.pdf

Rowhammer
https://www.zdnet.com/article/rowhammer-attacks-can-now-bypass-ecc-memory-protections/
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/potentially-disastrous-rowhammer-bitflips-can-bypass-ecc-protections/
https://www.wired.com/story/rowhammer-ecc-memory-data-hack/
https://www.vusec.net/projects/eccploit/


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