Home Depot was target of DEFCON social engineering team event
DARKReading This was during the DEFCON 22 event in Las Vegas (the Social Engineering Capture the Flag event) “The social engineering competition held last month in Las Vegas was in…
You think your firewall is safe from hackers?
The Internet Storm Center has a post about how to get information from computers on the Internet. So you want to use the Internet? If you want to use it,…
Home depot also hacked by Russian hackers
KrebsonSecurity has some info There is no information on Home Depot website on the breach, although there are a lot of jobs open and unfilled from Aug 20, as well…
Target hacked in 11 steps – 4 should’ve been stopped
CIO magazine has the 11 steps of the hack Step 3 exploit a web vulnerability should have been remediated, although the hackers were in the network they would have had…
Heap overflow attacks cause problems and then exploit system
etutorials.org explains some Heap Overflow attacks This is an important sentence and diagram( from the etutorials.org: “Where the details of stack overflow exploitation rely on the specifics of hardware architecture,…