Monthly archives: February 2016

A large Los Angeles hospital chose to pay hackers who were holding its computer network hostage, a move its CEO said was in its best interest and the most efficient way to end the problem. Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center showed uncommon transparency in saying Wednesday that it paid the 40 bitcoins […]

LA Hospital Pays Ransomware

20 Feb, 2016 in News tagged encryption / hospital / LA / malware / ransom / ransomware by admin

I have recently found a vulnerability on my Netgear Managed Switch I use at home. Its an information disclosure vulnerability. Basically the web management application fails to restrict URL access to different application areas. Remote, unauthenticated attackers could exploit this issue to download the device’s startup-config, which contains administrator credentials in encrypted form. […]

Netgear GS108Tv2 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

10 Feb, 2016 in News / Tutorials tagged firmware / information disclosure / netgear / pwn / switch / vulnerability by admin

LastPass and ProtonMail how to guide If your like me, you have many many many password to keep track of. Impossible! This needs a password manager. Step in to the light LastPass! I’m not going to explain that LastPass is as I will assume you will know already or will […]

How to use LastPass and ProtonMail with 2 passwords

3 Feb, 2016 in Tutorials tagged decryption / encryption / how to / LastPass / protonmail by admin

Attackers can bypass controls to distribute malware. eBay has refused to fix a major flaw in its online sales platform that is being used to target Android, iOS and Windows users with malware, according to security firm Check Point. The company today published details of a “severe vulnerability” it said […]

eBay REFUSE to fix major security vulnerability

3 Feb, 2016 in News tagged ebay / hacking / javascript / vulnerability by admin

GOOGLE’S SECURITY street gang Project Zero has been kicking sand in the face of Malwarebytes and picking the firm’s protection precautions apart. Malwarebytes usually wears the boot in this kind of thing, but Project Zero has taken a punt in the security firm’s direction and accused it of all sorts […]

Google’s Project Zero gives Malwarebytes a kicking

3 Feb, 2016 in News tagged anti virus / AV / google / malware / malwarebytes / project zero / vulnerabilities by admin

There are over 10,000 machines that are currently infected by malware in Nasa, showing that the US space agency definitely does not have the best possible cybersecurity practices and needs to completely overhaul how it secures its internal network, a leading security firm has warned. On Monday 1 February, IBTimes […]

Nasa hack: 10,000 machines infected by malware, says security expert

2 Feb, 2016 in Uncategorized tagged drone / hack / hacking / infection / malware / NASA by admin

Asda, the second largest supermarket in the UK by market share, reportedly failed to patch a vulnerability in its online grocery store that exposed customers’ personal information and payment details for nearly two years. Information security consultant Paul Moore estimates that over 19 million transactions were potentially at risk in […]

Asda website leaves customer details vulnerable for 677 days

1 Feb, 2016 in News tagged asda / hacking / patch / walmart by admin