It seems that January 2012 is another record of DDoS attacks launched by Hacktivists:
January 16 – Cyber attacks on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, major banks and Ministry of Foreign Affairs January 18 – Cyber attacks on major financial institutions January 24 – Operation MEGAUPLOAD, Anonymous group revenge attacks against Justice Department, FBI, White [...]
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PDF A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is an attempt to make resources on a computer network unavailable to its users. One of the largest DDoS attacks for the year was recorded in early November at an Asian e-commerce company is said to be the biggest of the year. The DDoS attack consisted of four consecutive waves launched [...]
Continue Reading →Endpoint Security is an approach towards network security that requires all devices on a network to comply with set standards before any sort of access is granted to those devices over the network. Devices that are considered as Endpoints can be laptops, workstations, mobile devices and any form of special equipment that connects to [...]
Continue Reading →Penetration testing is an integral part of any security audit. You have your detailed report in front of you but what do you do with it? The most obvious answer would be to implement security patches and countermeasures to make sure a security breach is out of the question.
Having said that, how exactly does [...]
Continue Reading →Before a penetration test is carried out, the testers need as much information as they can get the target network. This gives them a good idea on how to proceed with the test and what possible vulnerabilities they should look for. There are a wealth of tools available both commercially and custom made which [...]
Continue Reading →In the most recent hack attack out of many was game developer Valve where hackers compromised the network and stole customer information from their gaming service Steam.
The company said the intrusion took place last weekend and resulted in the defacement of Steam’s forums and the breach of a database containing user names, email addresses, purchase [...]
Continue Reading →Penetration testing is not just another fancy word that IT staff throws around; it should be taken seriously and used to maximize value. Penetration tests have to be managed in a variety of techniques to maximize the tests’ effectiveness.
Some best practices that help in getting the most of out of PenTest’s are:
Test [...]
Continue Reading →A network administrator’s worst nightmare is a security breach on the network he manages so a network admin will take every step humanly possible to make sure that his network is sealed shut. He’s added firewall, spyware, malware, adware and virus protection, patched, updated, checked and rechecked every PC connected to the network and he’s [...]
Continue Reading →Stuxnet is a computer worm that targets Siemens industrial software and equipment running on Microsoft Windows, spread indiscriminately but holds a high specialized payload that targets Siemens supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems used to control and monitor specific industrial processes. The worm used an unprecedented four zero-day attacks to attack the Windows systems and [...]
Continue Reading →Penetration testing is an important part of a security audit and is conducted by specialists using specific tools for specific functions along with manually hacking the application and/or infrastructure. When speaking of tools, It is vital that the team performing the penetration test has a clear understanding of capabilities of each tool they are [...]
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