Blog Posts Tagged with "Hacking"
EU: Possession of Hacking Tools to Become a Criminal Offense
April 04, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Cyber attacks on IT systems would become a criminal offense punishable by at least two years in prison throughout the EU under a draft law backed by the Civil Liberties Committee. Possessing or distributing hacking software and tools would also be an offense...
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CyberPatriot Announces National Championship Winners
March 27, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“CyberPatriot has introduced the area of cyber defense to tens of thousands of students across the country, and they’ve embraced the opportunity to learn and develop the skills to be successful in a field critical to America,” said Bernie Skoch, CyberPatriot Commissioner...
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Cyber Attacks are Fastest Growing National Security Threat
March 22, 2012 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
Cybercrime is a relatively new phenomenon but because of its recent scale and game-changing implications for both government and industry it is rapidly becoming the dominant risk theme of the 21st century. The opportunity for cyber attacks grows daily...
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Location, Location, Location: It Works in Risk Management
March 21, 2012 Added by:Edwin Covert
With the increase in cybercrime costs, organizations need to be able to ensure they are maximizing their return on risk management investment. An effective way of doing this is making sure the information security or risk management team is properly aligned within their organization...
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Developing the LNK Metasploit Post Module with Mona
March 20, 2012 Added by:Rob Fuller
One of Mona’s many and least well known functions is ‘header’, which outputs a ruby version of a file broken into ASCII and binary parts. The problem: I need to recreate a file in a way I can manipulate it in a post module without using the spec or Railgun to assist...
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Security Tips When Providing Free Wi-Fi at Your Business
March 08, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Wi-Fi is great for bringing in customers and as a promotional tool that creates customer loyalty. Merchants such as hotels, coffee shops, burger joints and anyplace with a store front, chairs and tables is offering free Wi-Fi. But what about all the Wi-Fi security threats?
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Researchers Successfully Hacked Online Voting System
March 07, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Within 48 hours of the system going live, we had gained nearcomplete control of the election server. We successfully changed every vote and revealed almost every secret ballot. Election officials did not detect our intrusion for nearly two business days..."
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On Hacking Humans at the RSA Conference
March 06, 2012 Added by:
RSA was a veritable cornucopia of data collection. There were no firewalls, human IDS/IPS or content filtering at this show. People openly discussed strategic plans, engineering specs and tactical activities whether over morning coffee or late night shots of Patron...
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MS08_068 + MS10_046 = FUN UNTIL 2018
March 06, 2012 Added by:Rob Fuller
If you are on an internal penetration test and either exploit a machine or find an open share, you can create an LNK file with an icon that points at a nonexistent share on your attacking machine's IP...
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LM Hash Flaw: Windows Passwords Easy to Crack
March 01, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
The thing is that the lower security hashes are not present on the SAM stored on the hard drive. When the security accounts are loaded into active RAM, Windows re-creates the LM hashes. The LM Hash can be pulled from active RAM using the Windows Credential Editor (WCE)...
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Jihadi Information Warfare: The Next Wave
February 14, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
There have been tutorials on SQLi and Metasploit online for a long time, but only recently have we seen them translated into Arabic and placed on the technical forums. This means that even the low end of the technically capable Jihadist's can now boot up these tools hack a site…
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User Assisted Compromise (UAC)
February 09, 2012 Added by:Rob Fuller
You have to wait for the user to use UAC (this does not work if someone else does, it's only for the current user HKCU). But, as a side benefit, it's a very real form of sneaky persistence as well, as it will execute our evil binary every single time they use UAC...
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Gaining Access to a Check Point Appliance
February 07, 2012 Added by:Bill Mathews
On any Linux-based system with an unencrypted hard drive, it is possible to completely overtake a system once you have gained physical access. Often this is easily accomplished with a live CD distribution, such as Backtrack or Ubuntu and some command line tools...
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Hacking Satellite Communications
February 06, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
We must consider that compromised satellites are a serious risk, that the exposure could affect communications in the business and military sectors, and could also cause the loss of sensitive and strategic technological information...
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Cyber Espionage: A Buzzword-Term Often Overused
January 23, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
The Cuckoo’s Egg”, which happened in 1986, is the first "documented” case of computer espionage that is not classified. Cliff Stoll was asked to look into an accounting error on a University system and ended up finding and tracking an asset for the KGB...
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Mandatory Data Retention, Smart Meter Hacks and Silent SMS
January 23, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Silent SMS delivers a text message without the user being aware, but leads to the creation of a log with the cell phone company that reveals what cell phone towers the phone was closest to, revealing the phone’s location to help with tracking...
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