XARA – An old way to hack: Cross Application Resource Access

Cross Application Resource Access = XARA  is another way to hack applications on a computer, it was researched with the following paper:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxxXk1d3yyuZOFlsdkNMSGswSGs/view The Mac OSX and iOS operating systems were tested in the research paper by the 6 researchers:  Luyi Xing,  Xiaolong Bai, tongxin Li, XiaoFeng Wang, Kai Chen, and Xiaojing Liao In fact … Read more

Criminal Hackers Will Find Your Weaknesses

Criminal tattoos – these are the guys attacking us.  The Criminals have multitude of tools at their disposal, just like anybody with technical aptitude does. And just like water flows and creates new channels as it runs downhill the hacker will find your weakness. Because the Hacker Economy is now in the hundreds of millions … Read more

Bank Website “Not Verified” says Chrome

  Chase.com not verified   Commercial.hsbc.hk not verified (Hong Kong)  pnc verified.   Here are Three examples when clicking on the lock to the left of the URL  in the browser   … example image follows: Notice where the cursor is hovering : to the left of the URL (https://www.chase.com) Notice the Not verified examples … Read more

Phishing Survey: Attackers Evolve and Aggressive

  (a snapshot of APWG website today) Antiphishing Organization  APWG – an organization that is worldwide (Anti-Phishing Working Group) founded in 2003 by Tumbleweed corp as well as financial and ecommerce companies. Is a 501c6 tax- exempt corporation. http://www.antiphishing.org/download/document/245/APWG_Global_Phishing_Report_2H_2014.pdf This is a very interesting document – and deserves more understanding. Top ten targets of phishers … Read more

2nd Tuesday(Patch Tuesday) came & went now what?

I did not post about Patch Tuesday last week, So here is the rundown of what happened: Microsoft:   Cisco issued an Advisory on the 13th (Wednesday actually) http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20150513-tp It is for their TelePresence products. http://windowsitpro.com/patch-tuesday/patch-tuesday-may-2015-brings-unlucky-13-3-critical-updates I had to show this picture of me on the switchboard after seeing the image in WindowsITPRo   The … Read more