This is a guest post written by Alex Bod, Information Security Researcher and the founder of the Gods Hackers Team. The information about a set of vulnerabilities called HTTPoxy was published on July 18. Using this, attackers can replace the HTTP_PROXY environment variable that allows them to redirect http-queries to the Web applications on their […]
We were faced on ITSecurity.co.uk with a problem which was at first out of our control: “somebody” is creating, probably without knowing, a denial of service on this website. The consequence was that it was “consuming” the accesses to the database behind this WordPress site. The ISP hosting the website limits the accesses to 50K a day. […]
I am officially in the page of participants of the Alliance for Cyber Security. Click on the image to see the list: Look who is before and after me. I would say that I am in good company, right? 🙂
Security researchers from China-based tech company Tencent have identified a series of vulnerabilities that can be exploited to remotely hack an unmodified Tesla Model S while it’s parked or on the move. The researchers managed to perform various actions. While the vehicle was parked, the experts demonstrated that they could: control the sunroof, the turn […]
Oh boy…. they were hacked two years ago and they say it was a “state sponsored attack”. What the hack is that ?! How do you differentiate a hack done by an employee from a state sponsored attack? Let’s take it step by step: Yahoo has started to write to all affected customers this email: https://s.yimg.com/sf/support/en-us-security-notice-content.pdf Below […]
I gave a nice interview to MICHAEL O’DWYER for IPSwitch and he wrote the following article: Annoying Internet Ads: An Open Letter To Digital Marketers Everywhere “Ads consume bandwidth, especially those delivered as Flash or code. If you’re on a mobile device, with a small screen, the ads will also cover a good portion of the screen, […]
68 Million Exposed in Old Dropbox Hack By Ionut Arghire on August 31, 2016 In an email response to a SecurityWeek inquiry, IT security expert Sorin Mustaca said that the surprising fact is that the 2012 hack of Dropbox didn’t emerge earlier, along with the other mega-breaches. He also notes that the use of the […]
Most people these days have a smartphone. These phones are actually no longer just mobile phones, in reality they are powerful mobile computers with several GB RAM, multicore CPUs and many GB storage. Despite these characteristics which bring them closer to computers than to phones, most of their users don’t consider security and privacy in […]
Source and credit: https://github.com/rshipp/awesome-malware-analysis I save it here for easier reference. Do note that this list grows a lot ! A curated list of awesome malware analysis tools and resources. Inspired by awesome-python and awesome-php. Awesome Malware Analysis Malware Collection Anonymizers Honeypots Malware Corpora Open Source Threat Intelligence Tools Other Resources Detection and […]
Not even a week has passed since I was writing about “Not yet worried about vehicle hacking? You should be!” and we see in the news that at Blackhat that exactly this is happening. At BlackHat USA this week, the security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek are scheduled to present their latest findings in the world […]
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