Hacker ‘command’ servers seized in US: Microsoft
Microsoft on Monday said that cyber crime "command" servers in two US states were seized in an ongoing campaign to sever online crooks from infected computers used as virtual henchmen. View full post on politics hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Hacker ‘command’ servers seized in US: Microsoft
Microsoft on Monday said that cyber crime “command” servers in two US states were seized in an ongoing campaign to sever online crooks from infected computers used as virtual henchmen. View full post on Security News Headlines – Yahoo! News View full post on National Cyber Security
‘Active defense’ experts call for larger role for U.S. Cyber Command
Two former NSA chiefs argued at RSA Conference 2012 for more “active defense” information sharing and a larger security role for U.S. Cyber Command. View full post on SearchSecurity: Security Wire Daily News View full post on National Cyber Security
Malware Increasingly Uses DNS as Command and Control Channel to Avoid Detection, Experts Say
The number of malware threats that receive instructions from attackers through DNS is expected to increase, and most companies are not currently scanning for such activity on their networks, security experts said at the RSA Conference 2012 on Tuesday. There are many channels that attackers use for communicating with their botnets, ranging from traditional ones […]
Koobface gang turns off command servers, as Russian police explain lack of action
The publication of a detailed probe into the alleged members of the Koobface malware gang appears to have had an instant impact. But there’s no sign that the Russian authorities are planning to investigate the alleged gang anytime soon. View full post on Naked Security – Sophos View full post on National Cyber Security
12.2.10 Apache Struts Remote Command Execution and Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerabilities
CVEs: CVE: Not Available Platform: Cross Platform View full post on @RISK: The Consensus Security Alert View full post on National Cyber Security
Weber assumes command of Lee Co. Narcotics Task Force
For the Daily Gate City Keokuk Police Department Assistant Chief Dave Hinton will implement a forensic computer task force in Lee County with funding secured through federal grants, according to Keokuk Police Chief Tom Crew. Therefore, the Lee County Narcotics Task Force commander position has been transferred to Investigator Stacy Weber of the Lee County […]
Decoding ROT using the Echo and Tr Command in the Terminal
In this tutorial we will use the ‘echo’ and ‘tr’ commands in order to encode and decode letters using ROT which is known as the Caesar Cipher. ROT means ROTation thus it is used to encode letters in the alphabet to its next letter. There are 25 possible ROT settings which covers the scope of […]
Freefloat FTP Server APPE Command Overflow in Metasploit
The Freefloat FTP Server APPE Command Overflow is not a 0-day exploit but lemme just share to you a Metasploit Module made by SecPod. In order to run the module we need to download the ruby script first and put it in this directory : /opt/framework/msf3/modules/exploits/windows/ftp wget http://secpod.org/msf/freefloat_ftp_apee_cmd.rb For those of you who don’t know, […]
Merry Christmas from the Command Line!
Today we’re skinning holiday cats in bash. That’s Linux speak for we’re doing fun happy command line things for the sake of doing them. Merry Christmas! Want to do a little math? bc echo 2+2 | bc meimi039 adds echo $((2+2)) Next, bash shortcuts beginning of line: home, or ctrl+a end of line: end or […]