Pentesting – what is it actually?
Penetration testing are several acts on various computers and systems. First in “recon” one checks the public profile of the company. Use scan tools, nmap, hping, scapy, burp suite, and…
Check your own ports on the Internet
There are some good tools on the Internet (free) Like this one: http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/ This is just a basic port scan (likely tcp open check) unfortunately a hacker will use multiple…
Heartbleed – on the mend
Internet Storm Center says Heartbleed around the net is slowly being patched. How do they know that? Well, in case you are not a programmatic person… One can easily scan…
Check a website before changing your password
Use LastPass check which allows the user to test a website to know whether it has updated the openssl technology. Some site do not have this type, and may not…
New OpenSSL exploit found (CVE-2014-0160)- called Heart Bleed
Many vendors have put out statements for OpenSSL vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160): This is a vulnerability in the encryption technology (OpenSSL) on websites and other systems. If you cannot safely access websites…