Blog Posts Tagged with "Hacking"
Pentagon Ups Cyber Espionage Accusations Against China
May 07, 2013 Added by:InfosecIsland News
A new report from the Pentagon marked the most explicit statement yet from the United States that it believes China's cyber spying is focused on the US government, as well as American corporations.
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Brian Honan on Hacking Senior Management
March 28, 2013 Added by:Tripwire Inc
What are security professionals doing wrong that they can’t connect and communicate with their businesses’ senior management, asked Brian Honan, Principal of BH Consulting in our conversation at the 2013 RSA Conference in San Francisco.
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Chinese Whispers, Chinese Lies: Analyzing Mandiant's APT1 Report
March 25, 2013 Added by:Oliver Rochford
The foremost problem with the Mandiant report is that it relies on a view of China and the Chinese Cyber-Operations that has very little to do with situational conditions on the ground.
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APT1: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
February 21, 2013 Added by:Krypt3ia
I believe that Mandiant published the APT1 report primarily as a means of advertising and not much else. There is talk of the release being given the tacit nod by the government to push through the idea that there is a problem and that China is robbing us blind.
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Don’t Be Caught Playing the Fool (A Lesson in Why Change Control is Important)
January 03, 2013 Added by:Gary McCully
This is a real world story around the dangers of not following proper change control processes when placing new systems in production. In this blog I will discuss how one person’s actions could have resulted in an attacker gaining complete access to the organization’s internal network. I am hoping this example will cause organizations to take their change control processes a little more seriou...
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Refresher Series - Capturing and cracking SMB hashes with Cain and Half-LM rainbow tables.
December 20, 2012 Added by:f8lerror
On to the fun stuff, to capture a hash we want to use the Metasploit capture SMB auxiliary module, which is located in auxiliary/server/capture/smb. Leave the default settings with the exception of the CAINPWFILE. Set this to output the file where ever you like...
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How to turn any phone into a spy device with hardware hack
December 02, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Researcher Atul Alex has presented at the last edition of yhe International Malware Conference (MalCon) how it is possible to attack every mobile device with special hardware designed by using common electronic components...
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Defending Your Digital Domain Redux: Take 2
November 21, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
I'll start with I'm not an expert on 'cyber warfare' or a lawyer offering legal advice, in fact I'd simply rather not touch that whole angle at all. I'm much more comfortable addressing this issue as it came up today from a more sensible perspective. What follows in this post is an editorial opinion...
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Post Exploitation Command Lists: Request to Edit
November 07, 2012 Added by:Rob Fuller
If you would like to contribute, please shoot me a tweet, a email, a... anything and I will gladly add you to the permissions to edit. Honestly it just became so overwhelming that every time I thought to add something I would cringe away because I know I'd spend most of time fixing them...
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Getting System the Lazy Way
October 31, 2012 Added by:f8lerror
We know all that many users are local administrators. We also know we can send or drop binaries to these users and they will run whatever we want them to. The problem lies in when they run the binary if they don’t run it as admin we may not be able to get system level access. To be honest that is the level I want...
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Free Shells with Plink and Pageant
October 21, 2012 Added by:Rob Fuller
Watching Egypt’s talk at DEFCON 20 he mentioned the ability to jump on on a system when pageant (puTTY’s ssh-agent equivalent) is running. So I wanted to figure out the best way to get this going. Here is what I came up with...
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The New Social Engineering Toolkit vs Windows 7 and 8
October 08, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
Cyber genius David Kennedy (aka The Mad Hugger) and his rockstar team have done it again. Just when you thought your Anti-Virus was safe, the TrustedSec team has shown once again that pinning all your corporate security hope on AV protection alone is not a good strategy...
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Completely In-memory Mimikatz with Metasploit
October 07, 2012 Added by:Rob Fuller
For mimikatz to automatically send commands require double quotes in the command line arguments, so we use single quotes in meterpreter to encircle the execute arguments (-a). Running first "sekurlsa::logonPasswords full" then 'exit' to auto-exit mimikatz console...
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MS08-067 Celebrates Another Birthday
October 04, 2012 Added by:Jeremy Sobeck
As a Penetration Tester, this vulnerability is sought out because it is highly reliable and very low risk. As an attacker, the fact is the attack still works. The vulnerability was widely used in conjunction with the Conficker worm, which affected more than 9 to 15 million systems...
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Old School On-Target NBNS Spoofing
September 30, 2012 Added by:Rob Fuller
So it turns out that Windows Firewall talks IP addresses just like any other firewall, so if you configure FakeNetBIOSNS to tell everyone that the IP address for whatever they looked up is YOUR IP, guess what, no need to bypass the spoof filters...
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Analyzing Desktops, Heaps, and Ransomware with Volatility
September 24, 2012 Added by:Michael Ligh
This post discusses the undocumented windows kernel data structures for desktop objects and desktop heaps. You'll see how to use memory forensics to detect recent malware including the ACCDFISA ransomware and Tigger variants...
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