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Warning the World of a Ticking Time Bomb

Krebs on Security

Each hacked server has been retrofitted with a “web shell” backdoor that gives the bad guys total, remote control, the ability to read all email, and easy access to the victim’s other computers. Researchers are now racing to identify, alert and help victims, and hopefully prevent further mayhem. CHECK MY OWA.

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

Endpoint: Enables access for human users and computer services and commonly includes PCs, laptops, Internet of Things (IoT), and operational technology (OT). Security Elements Security elements protect each element within the network, network access, and the data transmissions. or segregated as cloud or network attached storage (NAS).

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Bad Packets warns of over 14,500 Pulse secure VPN endpoints vulnerable to CVE-2019-11510

Security Affairs

“Unauthenticated remote attacker with network access via HTTPS can send a specially crafted URI to perform an arbitrary file reading vulnerability.” The scanning activity detected by the honeypots of BadPackets was originated from a host in Spain, threat actors aim at gaining access into the private VPN network. ??????????????

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Past, present, and future of the Dark Web

Security Affairs

Describing these phenomena, some journalists have been labeled “as experts on the dark web” The Dark Web is just a portion of the Deep Web, its access is quite simple and doesn’t require any specific technological skill. It is very easy to access to the Tor network or browse content on other anonymizing networks like I2P.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

While I produced this episode, a 21 year old Massachusetts National Guard airman is alleged to have photographed and distributed copies of classified US Military material on Discord, a social media site. All those exercises, the honeypot or honeynet challenges I think that's what they were called in. VAMOSI: Oh. Let's analyze stuff.

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