wrote-password-cracking-manual. Password cracking has always been this niche activity during a routine pentest. You collect some hashes, fire up John The Ripper or Hashcat, and use default settings with rulesRead More →
Spammers are mass-messaging Facebook users with PDF files claiming to contain nude celebrity pictures, but which lead users to a malicious Chrome extension and overly aggressive advertising sites. This spamRead More →
Dirty COW (designated as CVE-2016-5195) is a Linux vulnerability that was first disclosed to the public in October 2016. It was a serious privilege escalation flaw that allowed an attacker toRead More →
Hacking, which was once considered the exclusive domain of the “experts” has become very common phenomenon with the rise of technology and advancements in the mobile field. Android phones areRead More →
Millions of readers who visited popular news websites have been targeted by a series of malicious ads redirecting to an exploit kit exploiting several Flash vulnerabilities. Since at least theRead More →
Sony has released firmware updates that remove a remotely exploitable backdoor account from 80 models of IP and security cameras. Because attackers can exploit the backdoor account via a well-craftedRead More →
Security researchers find easy to exploit vulnerability. North Korea is one of those countries whose governments pushed for the migration to a domestically-developed operating system that’s supposed to be moreRead More →
Security experts from CloudFlare observed a new botnet that emerged in the wild and it could be dangerous as its predecessor Mirai. Which is the most dreaded botnet in theRead More →
Only real defense for billions of devices is physically capping ports. Last year we wrote about the “USB Killer”—a DIY USB stick that fried almost everything (laptops, smartphones, consoles, cars) thatRead More →
For six months, the remote management app has opened users to code-execution attacks. For at least the past six months, a popular remote management app available in the official GoogleRead More →
