This is an excellent case of Social Engineering, you could also consider it playing on human greed/ignorance/stupidity. Whatever you want to label it really ;) USB drives are a real security risk.. We recently got hired by a credit union to assess the security of its network. The client asked that we really push hard […]
Yersinia is a network tool designed to take advantage of some weakeness in different network protocols. It pretends to be a solid framework for analyzing and testing the deployed networks and systems. It’s a very useful for any network based penetration testing or vulnerability assessment. There isn’t many tools working on Layer 2 and this […]
Packet sniffing goes hi-tech? What’s wrong with ethereal? The equipment that technician Mark Klein learned was installed in the National Security Agency’s “secret room” inside AT&T’s San Francisco switching office isn’t some sinister Big Brother box designed solely to help governments eavesdrop on citizens’ internet communications. Rather, it’s a powerful commercial network-analysis product with all […]
Now this is a VERY interesting project, as I’ve always said the majority of DoS attacks and DDoS attacks (90%+) could be stopped if all the ISP’s null routed packets which DO NOT originate from IP blocks they own, e.g. spoofed packets. Basically the project has been established to see if you can spoof IP […]
