The AC5300 Ultra WiFi router looks “Ultra” and new. Looks interesting right? lots of new specs and capabilities. Now let’s check out security researcher at /dev/TTYS0 So, while Dlink was busy with their marketing campaign and trying to sell more routers with flashy products and images (after a certain engineering effort), the security researcher … Read more
ISIL is defacing web Sites using WordPress vulnerabilities http://www.ic3.gov/media/2015/150407-1.aspx ic3=Internet Crime Complaint Center recommendation is to update your WordPress website as much as possible when necessary: check the following sites: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid, http://cve.mitre.org/index.html, https://www.us-cert.gov/ for vulnerabilities and update your site as needed. In practicality it means updating your WordPress site as the plugins are updated … Read more
The following news story highlights stolen Uber email accounts which are worth $1 on the dark net (the criminal bazaar on the Internet where criminals buy and sell their wares) http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/stolen-uber-accounts-sale-1-dark-net-article-1.2167072 (Image from Nypost. {A user on AlphaBay is selling log in credentials for $1 and a user on ThinkingForward-another dark web marketplace-is selling them … Read more
https://status.github.com/messages The status messages from the weekend state the problems GitHub had. We discussed a feint DDoS attack last week on blogpost: http://oversitesentry.com/ddos-not-only-for-disruption/ There are cases of DDoS that PCI compliance asks you to place the risk in a low category: Risk level: Severity is low for Denial-of-service attack, abnormal termination So the low risks are … Read more
Support for http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/windows-server-2003/ Microsoft Windows Server 2003 patches will not be created anymore after July of this year. So what if it will take more than April, May, and June to Migrate all of your windows 2003 servers? Sometimes a migration takes a lot longer than 3 months. If you are not thinking about the … Read more