Month: December 2014

Test new POODLE vulnerability

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There is a new POODLE vulnerability and test at Qualys SSL labs) https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/   POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy) The problem is that your encryption stream may be downgraded to a legacy (i.e. can be cracked) standard.  TLS 1.2 and higher needs to be kept as the known secure standard. Go click on ssllabs.com … Read more

Healthcare data at risk

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It is only a matter of time before health data will be plastered all over the Internet. A number of Blogs are discussing this very issue http://www.safelogic.com/exposing-the-risks-of-data-driven-healthcare/ is one.   Penetration testing for New England care solved some problems outside of security issues: http://www.coresecurity.com/content/penetration-testing-key-to-hipaa-compliance-for-care Penetration testing checks the boundaries of your computer systems. By using open source tools … Read more

Best Password Management

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Due to the bad password practices of the general population, the latest example is the Sony Pictures hack uncovering the passwords of Sony Pictures employees(as well as SSN and more):     As in our previous post where  we discussed the hack. Now various forums are picking apart the very bad password practices of Sony Pictures … Read more

Penetration testing example: exifdata function

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SANS pen tester  has an excellent example (guest written by Chris Andre Dale)  and also a new Zero-day Cross Site Scripting(XSS) example at SANS pen testing blog http://pen-testing.sans.org/blog/pen-testing/2014/12/04/cross-site-scripting-through-file-metedata   The vulnerability is based on exif data in jpegs: http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/38/what-is-exif/ You can view the EXIF data in Windows7 by right clicking on the image, choosing Properties and … Read more