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Five inmates from the Marion Correctional Institution (MCI) built two computers from spare parts, hid them in the ceiling of a training room closet, and used them to hack into the prison’s network. Their actions were discovered in July 2015, when the prison’s IT staff switched internal proxy servers from Microsoft to WebSense (now part […]
Short Bytes: You can reduce the wireless interference for your network by selecting the least congested channel. You can do so on various operating systems like Linux, Android, Windows, and MacOS with the help of external and built-in tools like iwlist, WiFi Analyzer, wavemon, diagnostics utility, etc. A less congested channel means you can achieve […]
Today, we have released a white paper on RTM, a cybercrime group that has been relentlessly targeting businesses in Russia and neighboring countries using small, targeted campaigns. This group, active since at least 2015, is using malware, written in Delphi, to spy on its victims in a variety of ways, such as monitoring keystrokes and […]
During incident response, a team of security specialists needs to follow the artefacts that attackers have left in the network. Artefacts are stored in logs, memories and hard drives. Unfortunately, each of these storage media has a limited timeframe when the required data is available. One reboot of an attacked computer will make memory acquisition […]
When you open File Explorer in Windows 10, the system’s default file browsing and management tool, you will notice immediately that it displays two panes in the main interface. The left pane lists mostly hardcoded links to system locations such as Libraries, This PC, Network, Homegroup, One Drive or Quick Access while the right the […]
Having Windows 8.1 and then connecting to a wireless network, sometimes it may create some problems. Well I use Ubuntu most of the time, but I have a friend who use Windows and recently upgraded to Windows 8.1. So the other day, we were doing some project and he needed to connect to Internet. So, […]
Unsuspected Blu-Ray Players Vulnerabilities Present Open passage to Cybercriminals. A team of security researchers at NCC Group analyzed different Blu-ray players and found numerous exploitable vulnerabilities in them. Security researchers created a disc for running platform-specific fake executable prior to playing the required media content and they were able to exploit the vulnerabilities of the […]