Hacking The Security Myths

2013-04-21

2013-04-20

Home routers contain critical security vulnerabilities

Popular products like the following vulnerable:

Linksys WRT310v2, Netgear's WNDR4700, TP-Link's WR1043N, Verizon's FiOS Actiontec MI424WR-GEN3I, D-Link's DIR865L and Belkin's N300, N900 and F5D8236-4 v2 models

Different Types of CISO's

A good sum-up of the three types of CISO's:

The non-techie, but business-savvy CISO
The technically competent, but less business-articulate CISO
The hybrid CISO

2013-04-13

Bitcoinica, twice hacked in 2012, is being sued

Update 29-Aug-2012:
This may well be the beginning of the end for Bitcoinica..!

Update 05-Sep-2012:

Hackers stole about US$250,000 from BitFloor, a BitCoin exchange, on Monday, and it does not have the money to reimburse account holders, according to the website's founder.

More technical details here

Update 26-Sep-2012:
Back Online

Update 04-Apr-2013:
Bitcoin under attack again, a DDoS and a DB hack.

Update 13-Apr-2013:
Some explanation around the economics of bitcoin. Seems like the currency has been super volatile recently.

Programmable HID USB Keystroke Dongle

AKA : Rubber Duck

AKA: PHUKD

AKA: Teensy

Multiple names, to something small, but an extremely powerful attack:

It's a neat little USB dongle which looks like a thumbdrive that you could surreptitiously install in the back of someone's computer. The Phantom Keystroker acts as a keyboard/mouse USB HID (Human Interface Device) to send keystrokes, move the mouse pointer around randomly, toggle caps lock and other things to annoy your co-workers and loved ones.

Read what IronGeek has to say, Hak5's version (available under $20 now).

Update 13-Apr-13:
Integrating it with Kali - A super easy tutorial for a powerful tool.

Kali is Here!!

The new, improved Backtrack, called KALI

2013-04-07

Malware Deep Dive

InfoWorld's report on malware analysis. As always some scary statistics - the accuracy of which is always doubtful, and biased coming from antivirus companies.

However, there is a good list of pointers for the newbies to stay safe from viruses.

Report is here