Q: “Will I Get Hacked?” is Wrong Question

The question should be “When will I get Hacked?” Internet Storm center went to Threat level Yellow today: Internet Storm Center threat status: (this morning on 17th threat level went back to Green) – threat Activity died down fortunately and enough of us are patching.   The reason it went yellow for a day is … Read more

Forever Day Vulnerability Affects All Windows Versions

Forever Day is a play on the “Zero-day” vulnerability which means the application vulnerability has not been patched and can be hacked. Forever-day now means it is always vulnerable (unless the software vendors figure out a patch), although it may be a configuration problem.   Dark reading has the story: http://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/new-security-flaw-spans-all-versions-of-windows/d/d-id/1319884 The most interesting paragraph: … Read more

How-To Hack Wifi: Testing Defenses

Hacking Wifi is useful since we want to test our defenses, to make sure we have a certain level of defense set up. Aircrak-ng is used to crack the Wifi encryption that is available on Kali Linux Operating system (the operating system built for pentesters/ethical hackers) As in this tutorial by WonderHowTo there is a few … Read more

Infosec Researchers Hacking New DLink Routers

The AC5300 Ultra WiFi router looks “Ultra” and new. Looks interesting right? lots of new specs and capabilities. Now let’s check out security researcher at /dev/TTYS0   So, while Dlink was busy with their marketing campaign and trying to sell more routers with flashy products and images (after a certain engineering effort), the security researcher … Read more