Category Archives: Security Blog

Doxing

Here are some doxing tutorials.

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Under 11 Minutes to Crack WiFi for 7 Year Old

Seven-year-old Betsy Davis, using only youtube videos for knowledge, was able to find out how to hack the controlled environment’s public WiFi. She set up a rogue access point for a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack, which allowed her to steal data … Continue reading

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Cisco’s 2015 Security Report

Cisco said Java represented a whopping 91 percent of all indicators of compromise, the best way to combat it? With some good old fashioned Security Awareness. Cisco’s 2015 annual security report,  was released last week. As part of its report, … Continue reading

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Ghost to the Shell

During a code audit, researchers at Qualys discovered a buffer overflow in the __nss_hostname_digits_dots() function of glibc which can get access to the shell. The GHOST vulnerability is a serious weakness in the Linux glibc library. It allows attackers to … Continue reading

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Game of Hacks

Test your application hacking skills! You will be presented with vulnerable pieces of code and you must find which vulnerability exists in that code as quickly as possible. You can also submit questions.

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HealthCare.gov Includes Health Data in its own URLs

The website, Healthcare.gov leaks data via referer (mispelled accidentally, but stuck) headers. When you visit a website in general, the referer codes tells the new loading site, where you came from. Since healthcare.gov stores information in the referer headers, It’s … Continue reading

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Attackers Can Easily Disable 5,300 Gas Stations in the US

The industry’s most famous white hat hacker, HD Moore, reports that automated tank gauges at 5,300 gas stations, can be connected to on port 10,001 without authentication and vulnerable to remote attacks or shut down. There is also publicly hosted … Continue reading

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Is that a Mouse in your Pocket or?

You ready to bring unauthorized hardware on my ‘secure’ network? Mouse-box, the computer in a mouse, is still in prototype. All we know right now is that it is running ChromeOS or Linux. Maybe a variant of Kali will work too. … Continue reading

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4.5 Malware Variants a Second

According to German Independent IT Security company AV-TEST, there are 12,000,000 variants of malware a month. That’s about 4.5 every second! Malware, a combination of the words Malicious and Software, can be downloaded or sent to users to click on … Continue reading

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Want Someone’s Password? Just Ask!

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