Discussion of public breaches of security
Windows administrators were sitting back and watching the Shellshock CVE (Common Vulnerabilities Exposures) fireworks CVE-2014-6277 and CVE-2014-6278 Now that we(Security IT community) are thinking Shellshock … Does windows have a problem as well? First of all let’s define “Shellcode” – as in Projectshellcode.com Shellcode is when one can create a “shell” from the attacked machine and … Read more
it looks like www.oversitesentry got probed yesterday over 46506 hits. (normal is in the thousands or hundreds, not tens of thousands. and it all originated from ‘tryal.ru’ I suspect it is a malware intrusion attempt, or a serious probe for passwords or something. I check my logs regularly, so I noticed this was very unusual not … Read more
To test or not to test? We are constantly inundated over different advertisements, and have an inherent distrust of something new. The problem that a company has is that … (picture of radar installation) the hackers are scanning the Internet for any machines they can access using free tools. Scanning the Internet Is … Read more
Arstechnica has the story Browsers are generally designed to prevent a script from one site from being able to access content from another site. They do this by enforcing what is called the Same Origin Policy (SOP): scripts can only read or modify resources (such as the elements of a webpage) that come from the … Read more
Techworld has a DEFCON22 review of the 10 scariest hacks. If a printer can be hacked on the network, all the things you scan or print can be stolen, and once the hacker is on the network there can be additional hacks to gain additional control of your machines. Irongeek story on HPJetdirect hacks … Read more
