New Internet Explorer vulnerability Microsoft confirms

This is considered  client side vulnerability. Where the user on their computer can click on a webpage or link using Flash and then the system will be compromised (a malware would kick off and the system will do the master program bidding). this is a good reason why I use Chrome  and firefox to reduce … Read more

Hackers – explaining what it is and some hacks

this blog is an interesting tips and tricks site:  http://tipstrickshack.blogspot.com/  (also explains hackers terminology a bit) The author describes several hacks on vulnerabilities within wordpress 3.51 (today latest is 3.8). So if you never upgrade your software (wordpress) then it will get hacked that is how it is, one always needs to be aware of … Read more

what kind of attacks can come?

  attacks will come in all types and methods, some will be standard – and some turbo charged. The reason a new vulnerability is such a big deal, is that any little problem vulnerability can cause a hacker to get a small connection with your systems. And unfortunately any small connection can led to larger … Read more

more pentesting tools in the toolkit

Hydra, w3af, Scapy    are all good as well. We can create our own scans using scapy – as we can create our own scan reviews depending on the environment that we need to look at. to make this work – one really needs to understand the tcp networking  from rfc793 contact us to learn … Read more

Pentesting – what is it actually?

Penetration testing are several acts on various computers and systems.   First in “recon”  one checks the public profile of the company. Use scan tools, nmap, hping, scapy, burp suite,  and others to check the target computers out.  (this is the Alpha scan)   Then one can use a few pre-built tools to review vulnerabilities … Read more