Superfish and SIM card hack dominated the news.
Tuesday, 10th March 2015 – 8:38 p.m.
Every day, every hour and every minute, someone is attempting to exploit security holes internet.
Fewer incidents than in January
Telenor security department, SOC, attempting to monitor customer networks to defend against such attacks.
In February the company handled 143 incidents in connection with security surveillance, against 237 in January. Also the number of DDoS attacks decreased from 221 in January to 102 in February.
Had halt attacks
There was still plenty of threats to deal with:
“There are still many SSDP attacks against port 80. In the past also DNS reflection attack seen an upsurge. Four of our customers on DDoS protection was attacked this month and the attacks were stopped, “the company reported on his blog.
NSA monitoring of SIM card
In February it was announced that the NSA should have hacked the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, Dutch Gemalto.
It is the NSA to have stolen encryption keys used to encrypt communications in cellular and in this way made it possible to monitor a number of SIM cards in the world.
Telenor not affected
ITavisen confirmed that Netcom were customers at Gemalto and that their SIM card in theory can be accessed by American and British intelligence. The company investigates:
“The information about hackete sim card is naturally very disturbing. We will of course follow this up internally to see if it could in any way connected to TeliaSonera. “
Telenor is not affected by the threat.
“Telenor Norway has nevertheless no delivery of SIM cards from Gemalto, so this affects not our customers,” the company reported.
Delivered machines with adware installed
In February it was revealed Lenovo has delivered new machines with so-called adware, called Superfish (everything about Superfish in ITavisen), installed at several of their PCs.
The program ensures analyze your activities online to present targeted ads.
– Detective thorough
Opposite ITavisen stated a PR company representative following:
“Lenovo removed Superfish from pre angry installments of new consumer systems in January 2015 – simultaneously Superfish disabled on existing Lenovo computers on the market. “
” Superfish was preinstalled on a select number of machines, and only consumer models. Lenovo now investigating thoroughly all and new concerns regarding Superfish. “
Telenor customers affected
Telenor has now confirmed that they also found Superfish on several of its customers machines
“We discovered Superfish on several of our customers PCs. Later in the month, it was also revealed 14 other programs with similar functionality as Superfish. “
Lenovo after the unveiling posted software ensures to remove Superfish program.
Source:
Telenor TSOC
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