Ah Yahoo! in trouble again, this time the news is Yahoo! fined for 35 million USD by the SEC for the 2 years delayed disclosure of the massive hack, we actually reported on the incident in 2016 when it became public – Massive Yahoo Hack – 500 Million Accounts Compromised. Yahoo! has been having a […]
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CCleaner Hack – Spreading Malware To Specific Tech Companies
The CCleaner Hack is blowing up, with it initially estimated to be huge, it’s hit at least 700,000 computers and is specifically targeting 20 top tech organisations including Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, Akamai, Samsung and more for a second, more intrusive and pervasive layer of infection. This could be classified as slightly ironic too as CCleaner […]
Shadow Brokers Release Dangerous NSA Hacking Tools
It’s not the first time Shadow Brokers has been on the radar with NSA Hacking Tools, in August 2016 they exposed a bunch of 0-day exploits (also from 2013). This cache of tools appears to be from 2013, so was probably snatched during the same intrusion. This is somewhat more dangerous though as it provides […]
HashData – A Command-line Hash Identifying Tool
HashData is a Ruby-based command-line REPL Hash Identifying Tool with support for a lot of different (most popular) hash types. Installation
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$ gem install hashdata |
Usage Command Line When installed, run hashdata and paste in hashes when prompted. Library Example Script:
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require 'hashdata' hash = HashData.new puts(hash.check_type("1111111111111",'DES')) |
The above should output true. The library only matches the start of your second input, this […]
Why Are Hackers Winning The Security Game?
A lot of people and companies get complacent and don’t believe the hackers are winning, but trust me they are. So we have to ask, why are hackers winning the security game? What’s putting them ahead of the security teams and CISOs inside organizations. It’s an old story anyway, the Hackers always win in some […]