Discussion of public breaches of security
Internet Storm Center has an important current status on a new malware. It scans for port 32764 and port 23 (telnet) so it can propagate and create more. It also tries to “phone home” With our help we can scan (Alpha Scan) for any machines that actually respond to this open port (32764) … Read more
According to the National Vulnerability Database Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud in Cisco Cloud Portal does not properly restrict the content of MyServices action URLs, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by reading (1) web-server access logs, (2) web-server Referer logs, or (3) the browser history ——————————————————————————————— This vulnerability is medium, and … Read more
Krebsonsecurity has the story It happened on March 2014. After the card information is harvested, they are then sold on the hacker’s black market. It is here where the breach was found. It is not known where it happened, and how many cards were affected. The hackers black market is not that informative. Again we … Read more
This is a typical example how malware authors make money. They sell their programs and have other people make the attacks on you. RSA blogs has the story – RSA is a security division of EMC company which has security encryption RSA was one of the first practicable public-key cryptosystems and is widely used for … Read more
A gang of 3 hackers were caught and have now been charged with conspiring to hack government computers. A Wired story discusses the different hacks that occured: 1. gang is accused of using SQL-injection hacks and other methods to gain access to various systems including ones belonging to the U.S. National Geospatial Intelligence Agency the … Read more
