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PrivateVPN Does PrivateVPN keep any logs? The FAQ is emphatic: “No, we NEVER produce logs of any data traffic. The only things we store are your email address.” That doesn’t rule out logging session traffic, of course: connection times, bandwidth, maybe IPs. As PrivateVPN imposes a six-device limit it presumably maintains a […]

PrivateVPN Thoughts

11 Feb, 2018 in News tagged OpenVPN / Pfsense / privatevpn / VPN by admin

Locky ransomware is back, again… It’s delivered with the help of new tricks to fool users and anti-malware defences. Delivered through one of the largest spam campaigns in H2 2017 – as many as 23 million sent messages per day – the newest variant adds the .lukitus extension to the […]

Locky ransomware back with a new bag of tricks

1 Sep, 2017 in News tagged bitcoin / documents / infection / locky / macro / ransomware / virus by admin

Time is the most important factor in detecting network breaches and, consequently, in containing cyber incidents and mitigating the cost of a breach. “Security event investigations can last hours, and a full analysis of an advanced threat can take days, weeks or even months. Even large security operations center (SOC) teams […]

AI is key to speeding up threat detection and response

15 Aug, 2017 in News tagged AI / artificial intelligence / attackers / Security / soc by admin

The dump is relatively small, containing around 3MB of files. https://pastebin.com/L48e49AK At the end of July, anonymous hackers published documents stolen from an employee of cybersecurity firm FireEye, and claimed that more data would follow. On Monday, the hackers seemingly followed up, and released a second cache of alleged documents, passwords, and […]

Hackers Mock Cybersecurity Firm FireEye with Second Data Dump

14 Aug, 2017 in News tagged anonymous / fire eye / hackers / pastebin by admin

The UK Government’s Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced that firms could face fines of up to £17m or 4% of global turnover if they fail to protect themselves from cyberattacks. The introduction of such financial penalties will be carried out by the data protection regulator, […]

Fines of £17m for unprotected UK firms

14 Aug, 2017 in News tagged companies / cyber / fines / malware / uk by admin

Description Spaghetti is a web application security scanner tool. It is designed to find various default and insecure files, configurations and misconfigurations. Spaghetti is built on python2.7 and can run on any platform which has a Python environment. Installation $ git clone https://github.com/m4ll0k/Spaghetti.git $ cd Spaghetti $ pip install -r […]

Spaghetti – Web Application Security Scanner

11 Aug, 2017 in News tagged hackers / owasp / scanner / spaghetti / vulnerabilities / web apps / web scanner by admin

Have you ever done a domain password audit? Well yes the cracking of the passwords can be fun depending on the rig your using, but what happens after that? Yeah…… the reporting! There are some tools that give stats but none of the can compare to this new tool “PasswordStats”. […]

PasswordStats – A cool new password reporting tool

15 Mar, 2017 in News / Tutorials tagged audit / domain / password / PasswordStats / stats by admin

Malware analysis is like defusing bombs. The objective is to disassemble and understand a program that was built to do harm or spy on computer users (oops, this is where the bomb analogy fails, but one gets the point). That program is often obfuscated (ie: packed) to make the analysis […]

Malboxes: a Tool to Build Malware Analysis Virtual Machines

17 Feb, 2017 in News tagged malboxes / malware / virtual / vm by admin

Last weekend a security researcher publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Server editions after Microsoft failed to patch it in the past three months. The zero-day memory corruption flaw resides in the implementation of the SMB (server message block) network file sharing protocol that could […]

Windows SMB Zero-Day Exploit Released in the Wild after Microsoft ...

6 Feb, 2017 in News tagged 0day / microsoft / smb / Windows by admin

Visitors to more than 10,000 Tor-based websites were met with an alarming announcement this morning: “Hello, Freedom Hosting II, you have been hacked.” A group affiliating itself with Anonymous had compromised servers at Freedom Hosting II, a popular service for hosting websites accessible only through Tor. Roughly six hours after […]

An Anonymous group just took down a fifth of the ...

3 Feb, 2017 in News tagged anonymous / freedom hosting / hacking by admin

As we connect more and more devices to the internet, we create more and more potential security vulnerabilities. While we’re usually aware of the gadgets we use every day — our PCs, smartphones, and tablets — we might now always think about just how secure are all of our other […]

Cisco Prime Home: Hackers in your network?

3 Feb, 2017 in News tagged attacker / cisco / prime by admin

Customer information from more than 130,000 users of the Three mobile network has been compromised in a cyber security breach, the mobile operator has said. Three boss, Dave Dyson, said in a statement that all affected customers were being contacted individually and that while personal information had been accessed, no […]

Three Mobile Data Breach

18 Nov, 2016 in News tagged data breach / hacking / mobile / three by admin

Well that’s not good, not good at all. The new bill will force internet companies to store their users’ browsing data for a year, and will allow the government to force phone makers to hack into people’s handsets. The House of Lords has passed the Investigatory Powers Bill, putting the huge […]

UK Snoopers Charter 2 passed

18 Nov, 2016 in News tagged ~government / charter / hacking / law / snooper / uk by admin

Day 2 at Blackhat EU 2016 and had a great day. This talk Breaking Big Data: Evading Analysis of the Metadata of Your Life was very interesting by a former NSA professional talking about a variety of the techniques used by the mass surveillance industry to analyse an individual’s metadata […]

BlackHat Europe 2016: Day 2 of 2

4 Nov, 2016 in News tagged CanToolz / CloudFlare / nsa / WarberryPi by admin

Today was day 1 of 2 for me at BlackHat Europe 2016, one of my highlights was the tool Bloodhound located in the Arsenal section. BloodHound uses graph theory to reveal hidden relationships and attack paths in an Active Directory environment. Basically it shows the quickest way to get domain […]

BlackHat Europe 2016: Day 1 of 2

3 Nov, 2016 in News tagged 2016 / blackhat / blog / bloodhound / hacking / tools / WAF by admin

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