You know the movie which makes Phil(Bill Murray) relive the same day until he gets it right. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/ I asked Google how many days are in the movie “Groundhog Day”? 8 years, 8 months and 16 days, the director said 10 years. IT security is just like that except it should be called … Read more
Before i answer this question let me give you a screenshot of the following FBI Cyber most wanted: from www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber Alexsey Belan: Belan allegedly stole the user data and the encrypted passwords of millions of accounts and then negotiated the sales of the databases. Two separate federal arrest warrants for Belan have been issued. One … Read more
And this issue even though being a “new news story” as of 6 hours ago from ibtimes.cp.uk http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/starbucks-customer-accounts-hacked-through-smartphone-apps-1501118 Which originally got going with Bob Sullivan’s ‘scoop’ yes there is no need to know the account number, because all that is needed is the username, which is not the account number. I have a … Read more
Of course you could also disconnect your computer from the Internet. Here is your computer disconnected from Internet: But even disconnected from Internet a virus can still enter your computer (airnet). This is where a computer can get a virus from a flashdrive. Stuxnet was transmitted by usb flash drives, several infected flash drives were … Read more
Sucuri blog has the detailed information: https://blog.sucuri.net/2015/05/jetpack-and-twentyfifteen-vulnerable-to-dom-based-xss.html In short, the plugins Jetpack and TwentyFifteen had a bad file which could be attacked by a XSS(Cross Site Scripting) method. As Sucuri blog mentions the attack is actually DOM(Domain Object Model)-based XSS, which even a WAF(Web Application Firewall) cannot see this. Of course it has to … Read more