Web servers in Copiers are vulnerable = copier can be hacked

Techworld has a DEFCON22 review of the 10 scariest hacks. If a printer can be hacked on the network, all the things you scan or print can be stolen, and once the hacker is on the network there can be additional hacks to gain additional control of your machines. Irongeek story on HPJetdirect hacks   … Read more

Home Depot was target of DEFCON social engineering team event

DARKReading This was during the DEFCON 22 event in Las Vegas (the Social Engineering Capture the Flag event) “The social engineering competition held last month in Las Vegas was in no way directly related to a report yesterday that Home Depot may have suffered a massive data breach; the home improvement chain was still investigating … Read more

You think your firewall is safe from hackers?

The Internet Storm Center has a post about how to get information from computers on the Internet.   So you want to use the Internet?  If you want to use it, you have to be connected. If you are connected you can be scanned. Hackers will scan you until they find a vulnerability. There are … Read more

Home depot also hacked by Russian hackers

KrebsonSecurity has some info There is no information on Home Depot website on the breach, although there are a lot of jobs open and unfilled from Aug 20, as well as some new ones in the security engineering positions. —————————————————————————– Update on this issue – Late night 9/3 http://news.yahoo.com/almost-u-home-depot-stores-may-hit-breach-214825497–sector.html yahoo story (from Reuters) it is … Read more

Target hacked in 11 steps – 4 should’ve been stopped

CIO  magazine has the 11 steps of the hack Step 3 exploit  a web vulnerability should have been remediated, although the hackers were in the network they would have had a harder time to attack. Step 5-6 Stealing a token from Domain admins , although the password hash may have been removed somehow, the Domain … Read more