{"id":10724,"date":"2010-07-24T06:55:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T06:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10724"},"modified":"2010-07-24T06:55:25","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T06:55:25","slug":"attack-on-windows-via-siemens-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10724","title":{"rendered":"Attack on Windows via Siemens Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just <a href=\"http:\/\/web2.minasi.com\/forum\/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=34979\" target=\"_blank\">read<\/a> about this attack.&#160; It uses Siemens software to install a root kit.&#160; The vulnerability starts with a static password that Siemens inserted. (I once worked in a bank where I am told MSBlaster got in via a Siemens phone engineer using the modem in their systems servers to dial out to the net).&#160; The root kit then uses a stolen private certification key to pretend to be a RealTek driver so that it can install on 64-bit OS\u2019s (Vista and later).&#160; MS and RealTek have figured out a solution (requires your Windows Updates to be working.&#160; Interesting stuff.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:8fe74f4a-1b24-43e5-a46e-1a925ddca581\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Security\" rel=\"tag\">Security<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Updates\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Updates<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read about this attack.&#160; It uses Siemens software to install a root kit.&#160; The vulnerability starts with a static password that Siemens inserted. (I once worked in a bank where I am told MSBlaster got in via a Siemens phone engineer using the modem in their systems servers to dial out to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10724\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Attack on Windows via Siemens Software&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[190,121],"class_list":["post-10724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-security","tag-windows-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}