Hackers can spoof and hijack communications targeting sirens part of emergency alert systems to trigger false alerts and cause panic among a local population, information security training experts comment. Attackers can achieveRead More →
Crack WPA/WPA2 Wi-Fi Routers with Airodump-ng and Aircrack-ng/Hashcat. This is a brief walk-through tutorial that illustrates how to crack Wi-Fi networks that are secured using weak passwords. It is notRead More →
Dubbed as ATMJackpot, the new ATM malware has been identified by information security training researchers at Netskope Threat Research Labs. Initial investigation revealed that the malware originated from Hong Kong while theRead More →
It was recently revealed by information security training researchers that an analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, wrongfully gained access to the data of 50 million people swept up from Facebook via a ‘personalityRead More →
You have always been warned not to share remote access to your computer with untrusted people for any reason; it’s a basic information security advice and common sense. A criticalRead More →
While performing penetration and red team services , I have always enjoyed the challenge of gaining access to a well fortified wireless network. Red teams avoid or purposely target other networkRead More →
A research team from Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ‘s cyber security research center has discovered a new way of data extraction from air-gapped computers via using passive devicesRead More →
The number of Flash Player exploits has recently declined, due to Adobe’s introduction of various measures to strengthen Flash’s security. Occasionally, however, an exploit still arises. On January 31, Kr-Cert reported aRead More →
Hijacker is a Graphical User Interface for the penetration testing tools Aircrack-ng, Airodump-ng, MDK3 and Reaver. It offers a simple and easy UI to use these tools without typing commandsRead More →
Memcached is a distributed system that allows the caching of information in RAM. This software seeks to accelerate the search and access to information. Instead of going to the disk,Read More →
There can never be too many IoT gadgets – that’s what people usually think when buying yet another connected device with advanced functionality. From our perspective, we also think there can’t beRead More →
Icebreaker Automates network attacks against Active Directory to deliver you plaintext credentials when you’re inside the network but outside of the Active Directory environment. Cyber security researchers explain that Icebreaker perform 5Read More →
More than 10,000 credit and debit card holders have been affected by a data breach reported by Punjab National Bank (PNB). Cyber security experts believe that the card details of customersRead More →
The Android spyware was used to steal personal data of victims – The campaign also shows why users should never use their real photos on Facebook. There are almostRead More →
Monitoring cell phones without their knowledge is growing rapidly in Latin America countries like Argentina, Mexico and Brazil after being very famous in US since 2008 The Stingray/ GSM interceptor/IMSIRead More →
Last week companies specialized in cyber security discovered the existence of a new Persistent Advanced Threat APT, supposedly sponsored by Dark Caracal, an organization dedicated to espionage. Since 2012, he has performedRead More →
This note will explore the life cycle of an attack, how a victim may be infected and what an attacker could do to avoid detection by antivirus systems (AV). GeneralRead More →
A technique widely used to avoid hacking a computer is to isolate it completely from the network, known as air-gapped. This technique was used to write the script of theRead More →
Some weeks ago I read about this Starbucks case where hackers hijacked laptops on the WiFi network to use the devices computing power to mine cryptocurrency, and I thought it might beRead More →
As the values of the largest cryptocurrencies have multiplied, so too have reports of digital-currency miners stealing resources to increase the profitability of their operations. Few weeks back, we reportedRead More →
