Here are the CVE vulnerablities for April 2014 so far. CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure) vulnerability data are taken from National Vulnerability Database (NVD) xml feeds provided by National Institue of Standards and Technology. The most… CVE vulnerabilities for April – 2014
CVEdetails has a list of all CVE’s This is a vulnerability that is part of the infrastructure of the Internet webservers (Apache specifically) But specifically this is CVE-2014-0094 and this is the line that is important: The… Apache struts vulnerability – not as high profile, but still dangerous
I am not sure if anyone is saying this -but there are no guarantees on the Internet. We will be honest with you and tell you straight facts even to our detriment Old attacks still… We do not guarantee you will not get hacked
Session Hijacking is where an attacker Steals a network session by guessing (or other ways) the session ID (identification number). Each packet has a session ID in tcp sessions from client to server. Once… Session Hijacking is where attacker obtains access to your computers
Rapid7 has many tools like metasploit a software that runs many exploits against a target machine. “It is the world’s most used penetration testing software”. the hackers are using it, it is a great teaching tool, and of… We use pentesting tools like Metasploit from Rapid7
Is there a weak link? Is your firewall all patched up? Does it have the latest firmware? Are all ports closed that should be closed? Are the ACL (Access Control Lists) parameters working correctly? Does… Do you have weak security?
Malwarebytes has a good FAQ about the Heartbleed problems we have posted in our own Blog on Oversitesentry as well. Essentially there are online tools (LastPass) to find out if the website you are using is vulnerable.… Media hype on heartbleed – explaining…
First of all, there are many ways a system can become vulnerable, we will not look at the malicious or badly configured machines. We will look at a way to make a vulnerability over time… How does a computer system become vulnerable?
Wired had an article a while ago (January 6th 2014) To understand the problem, you need to understand the embedded systems market. The problem is the chip manufacturers make custom devices with custom parameters, that frequently… Yet another difficult Internet problem: embedded computers are rarely patched
By “casing” can also be called enumeration, where the hacker reviews what type of systems that you have on the Internet. It is the first step in attempting a breach into your infrastructure. Here is… Hackers are casing your computer systems now