A gang of 3 hackers were caught and have now been charged with conspiring to hack government computers. A Wired story discusses the different hacks that occured: 1. gang is accused of using SQL-injection hacks and other methods to gain access to various systems including ones belonging to the U.S. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency the … Read more
ARIN – American registry for Internet Numbers Whois database SANS – (SysAdmin, Audit, Networking, Security) A private company teaching the ins and outs of security DIG – an excellent utility to check DNS (Domain name service on the net at Kloth.net Virustotal – An excellent online malware analysis tool (wondering if a file has malware? … Read more
NIST Cybersecurity framework pdf The Framework Core consists of five concurrent and continuous Functions—Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover. This Framework is designed to protect critical infrastructure of the United States (utilities, police, fire, and other government functions) Small business owners can learn some things as to what to do in the primary function of the … Read more
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
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
