Forever Day Vulnerability Affects All Windows Versions

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Forever Day is a play on the “Zero-day” vulnerability which means the application vulnerability has not been patched and can be hacked. Forever-day now means it is always vulnerable (unless the software vendors figure out a patch), although it may be a configuration problem.   Dark reading has the story: http://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/new-security-flaw-spans-all-versions-of-windows/d/d-id/1319884 The most interesting paragraph: … Read more

How-To Hack Wifi: Testing Defenses

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Hacking Wifi is useful since we want to test our defenses, to make sure we have a certain level of defense set up. Aircrak-ng is used to crack the Wifi encryption that is available on Kali Linux Operating system (the operating system built for pentesters/ethical hackers) As in this tutorial by WonderHowTo there is a few … Read more

Infosec Researchers Hacking New DLink Routers

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The AC5300 Ultra WiFi router looks “Ultra” and new. Looks interesting right? lots of new specs and capabilities. Now let’s check out security researcher at /dev/TTYS0   So, while Dlink was busy with their marketing campaign and trying to sell more routers with flashy products and images (after a certain engineering effort), the security researcher … Read more

Hydra Tool Can Crack Your Online Passwords

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Here is a website link that discusses Hydra trying to crack online passwords at websites: http://insidetrust.blogspot.com/2011/08/using-hydra-to-dictionary-attack-web.html The tool can attack (and iterate)  through a set amount of dictionary passwords to ssh and ftp server accounts very easily (without any extra configuration) If there are website forms that have usernames and passwords (like WordPress or Joomla … Read more