another post by Internet Storm Center The Port 5000 (tcp) scans/attacks, are showing in logs again. Almost 70000 scans/attacks in the last few days in the logs that the storm center captures. Check your systems – have they been scanned? Alpha scan them to see what the evil hacker is seeing.
RFGlobalnet has an article about a possible Wifi virus which propagates from one AP (access point) to another. The University of Liverpool has set up a theoretical infection from one Wifi to another. If a wifi system (AP) does not have good enough encryption setup, with a sophisticated password this attack could occur. And Anti-virus … Read more
Why perform a network vulnerability assessment or review? because there are certain individuals that will take any weakness in your computers and networks (firewalls, switches) and exploit it to their own ends. What can an enterprising evil hacker do? Minimally use your computers and networks that you have bought and paid for to attack other … Read more
After upgrading check for new services as the Internet Storm Center noted after a firewall operator noted new streaming data coming to/through firewall. Upgrading the NAS server caused a media streaming service to turn on. And that is how it starts. After an upgrade some months ago a service is turned on, even though … Read more
CERT – Community Emergency Response Center for computers was created in 1988 in response to the Morris worm. The CERT organization I am talking about is based out of Carnegie Mellon(Software Engineering Institute), and has helped the computer industry with their insight and tools The CERT tools link. There are some good tools to use … Read more