2019-005: Security Researcher attack, disabling SPECTER, and Systemd discussion

SpecterOps Class: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/adversary-tactics-red-team-operations-training-course-boston-june-2019-tickets-54970050902

https://www.secjuice.com/security-researcher-assaulted-ice-atrient/

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3338112/security/vendor-allegedly-assaults-security-researcher-who-disclosed-massive-vulnerability.html

Tweet of application teardown: https://twitter.com/duniel_pls/status/1093565709630824448

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-kernel-gets-another-option-to-disable-spectre-mitigations/

https://liliputing.com/2019/02/mozillas-project-fission-brings-site-isolation-to-firefox-spectre-and-meltdown-protection.html

https://capsule8.com/blog/exploiting-systemd-journald-part-1/

Segue from systemd/journald into:

"Super daemon for all daemons"

Replaced things like sysvinit, rc.d, and even inetd

Lennart Poettering and Kay Sievers

Systemd (PID1)

Configured using only text files

.service

.device

.swap

.timer (.service file of the same time must exist)

'Transient timers can be created'

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Timers

/etc/systemd/system/foo.timer

[Unit]Description=Run foo weekly and on boot[Timer] OnBootSec=15minOnUnitActiveSec=1w [Install] WantedBy=timers.target

Logs are in binary format

Cgroups - control groups

Isolates resource usage (CPU, memory, disk I/O, network, etc) of processes

Bound by the same criteria

Used a lot of places (hadoop, k8s, docker, LXC)

http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_systemd

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TipsAndTricks/

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/777595/a71362cc65b1c271/

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd

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