I wrote before about Pentesting in the article “What is Pentesting, Vulnerability Scanning, which one do you need?” . If you’re a company having web services of any kind or a kind of backend, you are asking yourself if you should only do pentesting or make things right and do the entire risk assessment and threat […]
EMET stands for Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit – and it is a tool that you MUST have installed on your Windows PC. EMET is a utility that helps prevent vulnerabilities in software from being successfully exploited.EMET achieves this goal by using security mitigation technologies. These technologies function as special protections and obstacles that an exploit […]
After posting the article with the ads, I thought that I covered all stupid things that online publications do to force their readers to pay, subscribe or to disable ad blockers. Well, this was not correct… The stupidity goes on… with Washington Post. They request your email address in order to allow you to […]
If an App requires some permissions like Access Camera, Access Microphone, does it mean that they can do with these devices of a smartphone whatever they want, whenever they want? Short answer Yes, but it is not so simple Long answer There are rumours, that apps like WhatsApp, Facebook, G+, etc., are using the camera […]
I get very often asked about these two concepts and I noticed that there is a lot of unclarity around these topics. At the end, I will tell you my own opinion and give you some advices. Vulnerability scan Also known as Vulnerability Assessment, looks for known vulnerabilities in your systems and reports potential […]
I am sick and tired to see so many people affected by this wave of ransomware attacks. I don’t want to go into details about Ransomware like Locky because it has been written quite a lot about it. The most common way that Locky arrives is as follows: You receive an email containing an attached […]
On Wednesday Nissan disabled an app that allowed owners of its electric Leaf car to control their cars’ heating and cooling from their phones, after the Australian researcher Troy Hunt showed he could use it to control others’ cars as well. The NissanConnect EV app, formerly called CarWings, enabled a remote hacker to access the Leaf’s temperature controls and review […]
Linux distributor ‘Linux Mint’ warned users over the weekend that it has been hacked, exposing users to a malicious backdoor and compromising sensitive customer information. Project leader Clement Lefebvre explained in a blog post that the attacker made a modified Linux Mint ISO, with a backdoor in it, and then hacked the distributor’s website to […]
I read about Google’s vision of driverless cars. I like it, but I can’t stop to ask myself a few questions. Before that, Google’s driverless car just got its driver license 🙂 The NHTSA letter isn’t a ruling; it’s a clarification about how the agency will interpret the law in the future. You can read […]
And I mean really colorful, as in it has signs and colors. Like the one in the featured image. If you look in their source, they look like this: Subject: =?utf-8?b?8J+QlfCfkIhZb3UgY2FuIHNhdmUgb24gcGV0IGZvb2Qg8J+QlfCfkIg=?= As it can be seen on this page, there are all possible symbols described: http://www.unicodetools.com/unicode/codepage-utf8.php All it has to do is to force […]
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