Are you considering buying a SmartTV for the office? Here is Symantec’s Blogpost discussing a Smart TV infection: (Symantec Blog is #26 on our Security News Analyzed page) http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/how-my-tv-got-infected-ransomware-and-what-you-can-learn-it Now your TV can get infected with Ransomware as well. What Operating Systems can a smartTV have? Tizen, WebOS 2.0, Firefox OS, or Android … Read more
Foxglovesecurity has found a problem in Java(From 11/6): http://foxglovesecurity.com/2015/11/06/what-do-weblogic-websphere-jboss-jenkins-opennms-and-your-application-have-in-common-this-vulnerability/ And the interesting thing is that Oracle is trying to sell their products and services to everyone as cloud Applications. What you don’t know is that there is no patch for a Java Library containing a vulnerability that has code to hack it for 9 … Read more
It is an interesting document from the stateoftheinternet.com https://www.stateoftheinternet.com/downloads/pdfs/SpamBot-Investigation-whitepaper-R3.pdf This botnet had 83,000 unique infections (which include webservers running all operating systems) And on page 6 where the researchers revealed the botnet: Using these logged responses, we found that the size of this botnet is fairly large. Over 1,400,000 (including duplicates from the c2) probe requests … Read more
EMV(Europay, MasterCard, Visa) is the standard with the pin and chip technology which the US has finally moved to on October 1st of this year. Since EMV history and about https://www.emvco.com/about_emv.aspx So it is good that we have gotten up to speed from our days of just mag stripe and pin number. But since the standard has … Read more
The Internet Storm Center has a great article on the most common vulnerabilities in web applications (XSS or Cross Site Scripting) https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/When+encoding+saves+the+day/20277/ This is where some data is attempted insertion into the web application somehow. So the unfortunate browser response from Internet explorer is Internet Explorer: GET /myform/action/post?myparam=”>%20Test So what you say I … Read more