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 and …
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 with …
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 …
Update 01/08/2011: The videos are now up Click to explore. Thank you Tomasz! Update: Thanks to Jamie Duxbury (@w1bble) for hosting most of the pictures linked to from this page. I thought it was Soraya for some reason, sorry :). As I mentioned earlier: I was really honoured to attend BSides London and DC4420, aka …
Thanks to Toby for contributing to this security news bulletin! I was honoured to attend BSides London and DC4420, aka Defcon London both of which were a blast this Wednesday and an obligatory blog post will follow hopefully this evening. Feedback and/or contributions to make this better are appreciated and welcome Highlighted quotes of the …
Category Index Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Software Updates Business Case for Security Web Technologies Network Security Database Security Mobile Security Privacy General Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Russian news reports that 20-year-old Ivan Kaspersky was kidnapped and his captors are demanding ransom [www.darkreading.com] [4/22/11 UPDATE: Russian media this morning are reporting that Ivan Kaspersky has been …
Thanks to Shaun for contributing to this security news bulletin! Feedback and/or contributions to make this better are appreciated and welcome Highlighted quotes of the week: “Making connections is always easier when there’s alcohol involved” – Adam B. 😉 “Pretty much anyone can be breached at any time” – Jon Oltsik “Wonder if my Safari …
