January 04, 2018
Moore’s Law Crippled by Security Flaw
Most of us working in Information Technology are aware of the Moore’s Law observation. A gross over-simplification would be to say the transistor density on an integrated circuit doubles about every two years (some quote 18 months), and as a result, performance increases by double in that same time-frame. Ironically, Gordon Moore, the co-founder of […]
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November 02, 2017
Threat Deception: Attacking the Illusion
“Guardian, this is Rapier….three klicks southeast of target…Rapier is Oscar Mike. Radio silent. Over.” “Copy Rapier. This is Guardian. Out.” “Guardian, this is Rapier. Code worked. Rapier in the perimeter headed to target…..FRV in five. Over” “Roger. Out….” “Guardian, this is Rapier. What’s goin’ on? We’re in the building ……negative contact….I repeat, negative contact. Nothing. […]
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October 24, 2017
What’s KRACKing at HPE Aruba
Everything you need to know about KRACK(Key Reinstallation Attacks) What is it? Mathy Vanhoef, a technical security researcher, found what we are now calling “KRACK” to be a devastating security flaw in the relatively “secure” standard for wireless networks WPA. KRACK allows for attackers to eavesdrop on your personal data when authenticating to an access point. That’s […]
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May 26, 2017
7 Year Old Code-Execution Bug Found In Samba
7 Year Old Code-execution Bug Found In Samba It appears Wannacry may have gotten people looking at the SMB functions in Samba on Linux as well. A code-execution bug was detected in all versions of Samba 3.5.0 (released March 2010) and onwards. It is CVE-2017-7494 and there is already a Metasploit module available for attacking […]
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