We have to continue “learning” from high profile hacks. As you may have read in the news a “dating” site that attracts extra marital hookups has been hacked by some hackers. The after action report in detail has not been released so nothing really to learn from the hacking itself. Except the usual – I … Read more
Check out this computer joke section: http://www.surfersam.com/friends/funny-computer-jokes.htm Surfer Sam has several interesting computer jokes (my opinion of course) Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity. I always love the old computer quotes: “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. — Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 The drinking song … Read more
The talk on pdf form at Defcon media servers: Inter-VM data exfiltration – The art of cache timing covert channel on x86 multi-core By Etienne Martineau a kernel developer. So how can you steal data from one instance while being on another in the same hypervisor machine – you see the … Read more
Patch Tuesday August ( 8/11/2015) Here is Microsoft patch Tuesday August 2015 edition https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms15-aug.aspx How can I say that unpatched computers will get hacked? Any Metasploit pentester will tell you this. Metasploit is a nifty program (runs on Linux) that will attack computers with various attacks and payloads. It takes advantage of people who … Read more
Bart Kulach has a pdf from this year’s Defcon23 “Hack the Legacy! IBMi (aka AS/400) revealed” He recommends to check the website he set up http://www.hackthelegacy.org/ The items he has focused on are the privilege escalation issue in this slide: There are some good suggestions for a standard audit of your AD Check your group … Read more
