This whole thing sounds like something straight out of CSI: Cyber with references to Drones, Tor, remailers, anonymous image sharing and the scrubbing of meta data. Pretty interesting reading, although it rather smells like a lot of exageration. A super high-tech kidnapping – gone wrong in the end. Whoever wrote tho e-mails sent to the […]
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Security Vendor Trustwave Bought By Singtel For $810M
The big news today is an acquisition, “Trustwave bought by Singtel” is rocking all the headlines. The fairly well known security vendor Trustwave has been bought for a rather large amount (almost $1 Billion – but not quite). We have mentioned Trustwave before, and not in a good light – they were sued as the […]
U.S. State Department Hacked
So the U.S. government has been getting fairly hammered lately with breaches/attacks hitting the White House, USPS (Postal Service) and NOAA. The latest victim of this onslaught has been the State Department, which had to totally shut down their email systems on November 14th after discovering various ‘areas of concern’. I wonder who’s going to […]
Kali Linux – The Most Advanced Penetration Testing Linux Distribution
So Linux Live CDs based around hacking or penetration testing used to be a super big deal, they died down a bit in the last few years. The king of the hill back in 2011 used to be BackTrack and the last time we mentioned it was when BackTrack 5 came out. This article is […]
Microsoft Says You SHOULD Re-use Passwords Across Sites
Ok so we constantly tell people not to reuse passwords across sites, because if they are stored in plain text (and leaked) those naughty hackers now have your e-mail address AND your password and can wreak havoc on your life. Which is pretty much true, but Microsoft disagrees and there is some validity to what […]