Discussion of public breaches of security
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
The latest shoe to drop for Internet security? http://lgms.nl/blog-2 Luc Gommans, a student at Roermond, Netherlands. Although he is also working at HBO Software Engineering and Cyber Security. Has put together a test for the most basic connection of the Internet… a TCP handshake test. He goes on to explain a Man in the … Read more
Samy Kamkar is at it again: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=19155 Samy Kamkar is a unique hacker as he hacks with small hardware devices such as his previous device OpenSesame(Opens garage doors): http://oversitesentry.com/hackers-find-ways-to-attack/ My last post was to explain the process of hacking a bit, which Samy uses to just figure out a way to do things … Read more
The blog link below tested 1000 wordpress plugins and found 103 vulnerable plugins. and some of those have not been patched (I am listing the 20 NOT PATCHED plugins below). http://blog.cinu.pl/2015/11/php-static-code-analysis-vs-top-1000-wordpress-plugins.html I have alphabetized the listing – and started doing some manual checks on versions at wordpress.org plugin listings. I cant find the first … Read more
