Update 13/06/2011: Replaced “this guy” by “Kacper Szcześniak”, I was given his name today, thanks Marek! NOTE: Thank you to the Confidence team for letting me link to many of their images directly. Please note that there are more photos than I can use in a blog post, for the full listing of official photos …
Thanks to Tadek and Shaun for contributing to this security bulletin NOTE: I am still trying to catch up, some news items are a bit dated but worth mentioning, I tried to put newer items at the top of each section so that if you see something dated you already saw you can skip the …
Category Index Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Unpatched vulnerabilities Software Updates Business Case for Security Web Technologies Network Security Database Security Mobile Security Cloud Security Privacy / Censorship General Security FAIL Funny Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Bank of America data leak destroys trust [www.latimes.com] The far-reaching fraud serves as a cautionary tale for all consumers who …
Update 19:00 – Also related to this is this post by Carlos Perez, Unfortunately the script is not yet in the metasploit trunk today. But you can download it and copy it to the appropriate folders in the meantime. So, I compromised a Win2k8 R2 x64 host during a pen test and wanted to dump …
Feedback and/or contributions to make this better are appreciated and welcome For those interested, there was also a technical article posted over the weekend: SSH Service: How to set it up in Backtrack without getting pwned Remember, sometimes the funny section has some food for thought 🙂 Highlighted quotes of the week: ‘”You have won …
Category Index Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Unpatched vulnerabilities Software Updates Business Case for Security Web Technologies Network security Database Security Cloud Security Mobile Security Privacy / Human rights General Funny Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Facebook may have leaked hundreds of thousands of user details [www.scmagazineuk.com] A Facebook privacy flaw has led to personal information …
SSH provides shell access and as such it is one of the services that must be secured as well as it is possible. Step 0a – Change the default password IMPORTANT!: The first thing to do with Backtrack is to change the default password: To start the SSH service having the default password enabled is …
Feedback and/or contributions to make this better are appreciated and welcome Highlighted quotes of the week: “Data breach incidents cost U.S. companies $214 per compromised customer record in 2010. The average total per-incident cost in 2010 was $7.2 million. Additionally, brand damage can be significant.” – Ponemon Institute’s sixth annual U.S. Cost of a Data …
Category Index Hacking incidents / Cybercrime Unpatched vulnerabilities Software Updates Business Case for Security Web Technologies Network Security Mobile Security Cloud Security Privacy Funny Hacking incidents / Cybercrime LastPass Forces Users to Pick Another Password [krebsonsecurity.com] LastPass.com, a free password management service that lets users unlock access to all of their password protected sites …
Do you still believe input validation is enough to fix Cross Site Scripting (XSS)? Billy Hoffman said it best at Schmoocon 2007 (4 years ago!!!) in his talk “JavaScript Malware for a Grey Goo Tomorrow” (fast forward to Q & A, minute 51:45): Person in the audience asks: “You said that AJAX doesn’t really change …
