Hacker news story: http://thehackernews.com/2015/01/iDict-icloud-password-hacking-tool.html It looks like the hacker “Pr0x13” has released a password hacking tool at GitHub that allows hackers to break into any iCloud account – thus giving them access to iPhone user account data. Tool is called iDict: https://github.com/Pr0x13/iDict/ GitHub is a repository of software development projects by various programmers around the world. … Read more
I want to focus on a couple of Bruce Schneier posts today. Jan 1 Doxing as an Attack https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/01/doxing_as_an_at.html As Bruce mentions the old attack Doxing where all your information (personal information like cell phone, ss#, birthday, emails, medical information, etc.) is posted to the Internet to pressure the target for a political or otherwise … Read more
How can hackers steal data without anyone knowing? It has been shown that it takes months before a breach is found, let’s assume one of your users clicked on a phishing email. With the email malware was installed on the persons computer, unbeknown to the user this malware has now opened a process named “notepad” ( … Read more
