Discussion of public breaches of security
Maybe you should be: https://blog.malwarebytes.org/exploits-2/2015/11/magnitude-exploit-kit-activity-increases-via-malvertising-attacks/ Also the .pw domain should be blocked – (Palau Pacific Island). The malware tries to insert itself into your computer while you are watching an ad. This is what should happen – where your anti-virus /anti-malware software protects you from these unseen attacks. Guess what is in the malware? Did … Read more
It is a good idea to constantly improve – including in the WordPress plugin space. I have recently added WordFence Plugin: https://www.wordfence.com/ And in the last two weeks Wordfence blocked the following ip addresses which have been attacking this site (trying to gain access) coming from the following countries LV = Latvia, BY = Belarus, … Read more
This image explains (from PCWorld Article) The Ransomware image that can occupy your computer if you had the misfortune of downloading the wrong item (malware – virus, etc). Or if your computer was already Pwned (taken over somehow by criminal hackers) and then the criminal sold your computer access to the Ransomware criminal. That is … Read more
Aanchal Malhotra, Isaac E. Cohen, Erik Brakke, and Sharon Goldberg wrote a paper (out of Boston University) http://www.cs.bu.edu/~goldbe/papers/NTPattack.pdf “Attacking the Networking Time Protocol” Apparently if your servers and clients (which all have NTP) have their time changed can affect various processes. To Attack … Change time by … TLS Certs … Read more
http://www.christian-rossow.de/publications/tcpamplification-woot2014.pdf written by: Marc Kührer, Thomas Hupperich, Christian Rossow, Thorsten Holz Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany The researchers did a variety of scans – udp and tcp based scans to test the Internet. This table means that there are hundreds of thousands potential computers(network devices) on the Internet that can be used … Read more
