Views: 5,447 Penetration Testing Data Management can be a nightmware, because well you generate a LOT of data and some information when conducing a penetration test, especially using tools – they return lots of actual and potential vulnerabilitites to review. Port scanners can return thousands of ports for just a few hosts. How easy is […]
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China Policy Could Shut Out Foreign Security Firms
Views: 5,634 China catches a lot of flack in the infosec World, mostly for being suspected of cyber-terrorism and for propagating nasty malware. Lately things have been getting more political especially during their tussle with Google over the whole ‘search freedom’ issue and censorship. The latest is that they are starting to check for compliance […]
Federal Authorities Have Seized More Than $143 Million USD Of Fake Network Equipment
Views: 8,038 [ad] What a surprise, another quiet weekend – nothing much has been going on apart from the big furore about Facebook privacy – which frankly has been discussed to death. Other than that, 2 critical patches are expected in the next Microsoft patch Tuesday – info here and here. One story which I […]
Cisco Enterprise Wireless (Wi-Fi) Equipment DoS Vulnerability Discovered
Views: 4,922 [ad] If your organisation is using any kind of Cisco Wi-Fi kit it may be time to get the latest patches for your kit. Although they state there is no proof that hackers have used this attack in the wild – in my experience if Cisco have discovered this now, someone else probably […]
Cisco Vulnerability Given ‘Write Once, Run Anywhere’ Treatement
Views: 7,647 [ad] This is an interesting development in router security, Cisco bugs have been popping up now and then – not that often – but usually when they do they are quite serious. The problem with them was you needed so many variations unless you were just targeting one specific router, with that specific […]