Monthly Archives: October 2015

WhatsApp Found Collecting Data on Calls and Phone Numbers

October 31st, 2015 📆 | 2627 Views ⚑

WhatsApp, one of the most popular online calling apps, has been exposed by a group of researchers who identified how

Is privacy a dependency of information security?

October 31st, 2015 📆 | 8621 Views ⚑

If you read the news on a regular basis, you will find that most of the cyber security or data protection

Another Magento Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

October 31st, 2015 📆 | 3956 Views ⚑

The security expert Ebrahim Hegazy has published an interesting post detailing his discovery of a new Magento Remote Code Execution

TalkTalk Hack: Police Arrest Second Teenager in London

October 31st, 2015 📆 | 1543 Views ⚑

British Police have arrested a second teenage boy in relation to the major hack on the servers of UK-based telco

Chinese behind F-35 hack, latest Snowden documents reveal

October 31st, 2015 📆 | 1605 Views ⚑

Is the Chinese conspiring against the United States? Former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden was able to provide

Microsoft will make Windows 10 an automatic “recommended” update from 2016

October 31st, 2015 📆 | 3754 Views ⚑

Microsoft to make Windows 10 an automatic “recommended” update from next year for Windows 7/8 users It is an open

Google asked to remove over a billion search results related to “Pirate” links

October 31st, 2015 📆 | 2105 Views ⚑

Google has been asked to remove more than 1,000,000,000 search results relating to pirated torrents links It seems that 2015 is

DAMM – Differential Analysis of Malware in Memory

October 30th, 2015 📆 | 6645 Views ⚑

Differential Analysis of Malware in Memory (DAMM) is a tool built on top of Volatility Framework. Its main objective is

Shockwave player flaw exposes 450 million users at risk of hack

October 30th, 2015 📆 | 5959 Views ⚑

Adobe has released a critical update to fix a flaw in the Shockwave player that could be exploited to compromise

Chikdos cross-platform DDoS botnet hit SQL servers worldwide

October 30th, 2015 📆 | 6331 Views ⚑

Experts at Symantec have discovered a new variant of  the Chikdos DDoS-Trojan that is targeting MySQL servers worldwide. There is

Empire — PowerShell Post-Exploitation Agent

October 30th, 2015 📆 | 4035 Views ⚑

Empire is a pure PowerShell post-exploitation agent built on cryptologically-secure communications and a flexible architecture. Empire implements the ability to

OWASP Mutillidae II v2.6.26 Released — Web Pen-Test Practice Application

October 30th, 2015 📆 | 5313 Views ⚑

Mutillidae can be installed on Linux and Windows using LAMP, WAMP, and XAMMP for users who do not want to

Tor Messenger — open source instant messenger client based on Instantbird

October 30th, 2015 📆 | 2602 Views ⚑

Tor Project launched its first beta version of Tor Messenger – its long-in-the-works, open source instant messenger client based on

ZIB – The Open Tor Botnet

October 30th, 2015 📆 | 5605 Views ⚑

General information and instructions. The Open Tor Botnet requires the installation and configuration of bitcoind, however I neglect to detail

Vendor Risk Assessments & More! How Covered Entities Are Using Audits to Protect Themselves!

October 29th, 2015 📆 | 3581 Views ⚑

As Covered Entities (CEs) ramp up their Vendor Risk Assessment programs the audit/security/ compliance requirements continue to grow. The panel

Tagged with: assessments • audits • covered • entities • protect • using • vendor

1.Computer Forensics an introduction part – 1

October 29th, 2015 📆 | 7043 Views ⚑

Computer forensics (sometimes known as computer forensic science) is a branch of digital forensic science pertaining to evidence found in

Tagged with: computer • forensics • introduction

Johannes A. Buchmann – Post-Quantum Cryptography – an overview

October 29th, 2015 📆 | 4368 Views ⚑

Tutorial Talk 4 by Johannes A. Buchmann at 5th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography (QCrypt 2015) in Hitotsubashi Hall, Tokyo,

Tagged with: buchmann • cryptography • johannes • overview • quantum

Free Web Hosting 000Webhost hacked, 13 Million users impacted

October 29th, 2015 📆 | 6014 Views ⚑

Free Web Hosting 000Webhost company hacked, data belonging to more than 13 Million customers have been leaked online by the

mimikatz — Abusing Windows Security

October 29th, 2015 📆 | 5241 Views ⚑

mimikatz is well known tool for extraction of plaintexts passwords, hashes, PIN codes and kerberos tickets from memory. mimikatz can

DARPA Gave a Company $500K to Spy on White Hat Hackers

October 29th, 2015 📆 | 5723 Views ⚑

DARPA was paying $500k to an unknown company for keeping tabs on white hack hackers DARPA is well known among

Sniffly — Sniffing Browser History

October 29th, 2015 📆 | 4555 Views ⚑

Sniffly is an attack that abuses HTTP Strict Transport Security and Content Security Policy to allow arbitrary websites to sniff

TAP — TrustedSec Attack Platform

October 29th, 2015 📆 | 4197 Views ⚑

TAP is a remote penetration testing platform builder. For folks in the security industry, traveling often times becomes a burden

LMD – Linux Malware Detect

October 29th, 2015 📆 | 7183 Views ⚑

Linux Malware Detect (LMD) is a malware scanner for Linux released under the GNU GPLv2 license, that is designed around

WhatsApp used by Facebook to spy on users for serving ads says anti-virus maker Avast

October 29th, 2015 📆 | 2650 Views ⚑

WhatsApp used by Facebook as a bait to spy on users and serve them with ads on their Facebook timeline