XSS = Cross Site Scripting – dangerous website vulnerability
XSS is something every website should be aware of – test for it, because the bad hackers do. Netsparker is a good site to explain some of the potential attacks.…
WordPress weaknesses requires vigilence
As Forbes article discusses: Update your plugins and widgets when they are vulnerable, use complex passwords, and otherwise use good security methodologies. It is the basics that people are not…
Microsoft Sysinternals have been updated.
Windows Sysinternals is updating PsExec, ProcessExplorer, and PsPing Psexec runs on port 445 and 139 which means it runs with other Microsoft programs and can hide itself within the normal…
Do you have port 5000 open?
another post by Internet Storm Center The Port 5000 (tcp) scans/attacks, are showing in logs again. Almost 70000 scans/attacks in the last few days in the logs that the storm…
Wifi virus? is it possible?
RFGlobalnet has an article about a possible Wifi virus which propagates from one AP (access point) to another. The University of Liverpool has set up a theoretical infection from one…