GCHQ’s JTRIG team targeted more than hacktivists. Mustafa Al-Bassam, aka tFlow, co-founder of the LulzSec hacking crew, published today more details about how the GCHQ used the covert Joint Threat ResearchRead More →
Short Bytes: Password cracking is an integral part of digital forensics and pentesting. Keeping that in mind, we have prepared a list of the top 10 best password cracking toolsRead More →
In part one of our web shell series we analyzed recent trends, code bases, and explored defensive mitigations. In part two we investigate a new web shell created by Chinese-speakingRead More →
The U.S. government’s reach got a little bit shorter Thursday when the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court decision and ruled that the U.S. government can’t forceRead More →
Short Bytes: If you want to see how easy it is for an expert hacker to take complete control of your computer, you are at the right place. In aRead More →
Seven Pentagon supercomputers are getting ready to attack one another. Look out, human hackers. Pentagon research agency DARPA says people are too slow at finding and fixing security bugs and wantsRead More →
Facebook is clearly very serious about its mission to connect the world and in the process, it has launched solar-powered drones that use lasers to connect to each other and theRead More →
How Chipzilla and Microsoft hope to get one step ahead of hackers. Intel is pushing a neat technique that could block malware infections on computers at the processor level. That’s theRead More →
Introduction Satellites have assumed a crucial role in our contemporary society; they are used in both private and public sectors for numerous purposes, from communication to research. Unfortunately, with theRead More →
Recently, I’ve had multiple people ask about port forwards with Cobalt Strike’s Beacon payload. Beacon has had SOCKS proxy pivoting support since June 2013. This feature opens a SOCKS proxy serverRead More →
