Everyone heralds new improvements ever since the Renaissance in the 15th century started an artistic and scientific improvement binge every year. We are moving to another new year since time does not stand still for us to digest the current technology. Johannes Gutenberg small bio at physic.org So in 1440 we were inadvertently thrust … Read more
Another day another Zero-Day Attack: From Sucuri Blog¹ which found a remote Code Execution attack on Joomla a CMS(Content Management System) software The hackers are interested in these all the time: Because a Zero-day attack means that an attack on susceptible software can be easily taken over. Zero day exploits are sought after in the darknet. … Read more
The recently added BugSec blog¹ on Security News Analyzed page at #30 is the source. Apparently there are several NGFW (Next generation FireWalls) systems that allow the initial handshake to occur no matter the destination, including to destinations we would want to deny. It is good to point out, that an actual connection is not … Read more
Although on December 7th is another year gone by for remembering Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 (74 years ago) I want to focus on the suprise attack angle. Tora Tora Tora トラ・トラ・トラ means “We have achieved complete surprise” in Japanese codeword. A translation is Tiger. Tora (Tορα) is translated to “now” from Greek. Torah … Read more
Checking your Logs for anomalies is getting more difficult as time goes on. There is a new report out by FOX IT¹ and the report dissects a long running botnet (botnet is a program that connects to itself across the Internet). This botnet may be considered the largest and longest running as it started around … Read more
