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Friday, 25 February 2022 11:50
Microsoft Preps to Remove WMIC from Windows 11 and Remove an Attack Vector
Written by Sean Kalinich
WMIC or the Windows Management Instrumentation Command line is a very powerful tool. It can allow an administrator or an attacker a lot of control over a system. Because of the number of times that WMIC has been abused to…
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Friday, 25 February 2022 10:30
Vulnerabilities Disclosed in Cisco NX-OS that Could Allow Arbitrary Code Execution
Written by Sean Kalinich
Cisco has announced that a series of vulnerabilities along with the associated patches that go with them for some of the Nexus Series Switches based on NX-OS. Cisco’s NX-OS is the heart of their data center line of switches like…
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Friday, 25 February 2022 09:02
Trickbot Shuttering its Infrastructure as it moves to New Methods and Malware
Written by Sean Kalinich
It looks like the group behind Trickbot, the Swiss Army Knife of Malware as service for Windows is shutting down the framework and infrastructure behind the “solution”. According to research groups that have been tracking the campaign the disappearance there…
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Thursday, 24 February 2022 14:33
IRS backs off Collecting Biometric Data as part of ID.me Account Creation
Written by Sean Kalinich
ID.me, the private identification verification company, has become a popular go-to when it comes to governmental services. We have seen it put in play at the local, state, and federal level. The idea is to have a source of truth…
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Wednesday, 23 February 2022 11:11
Vulnerabilities, Phishing, and More allow Attackers to Compromise web3 services including OpenSea and Steal $1.7 Million in virtual assets
Written by Sean Kalinich
We have another Web3 article today. This one covers a new NFT marketplace compromise though the use of phishing emails that tricked users into singing over their digital assets to an, as of yet, unknown attacker.
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Wednesday, 23 February 2022 07:55
Unpatched and Unprotected Microsoft SQL Servers Targeted for Cobalt Strike Injection
Written by Sean Kalinich
It seems that there are still some MS SQL servers that are not only exposed to the open internet but are also still using weak passwords. When this is combined with vulnerabilities and the lack of other security controls and…
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Wednesday, 23 February 2022 06:57
noVNC Used by Clever Pentester to get Around MFA During Spearphishing Attack
Written by Sean Kalinich
Most attacks, be they real or from a penetration test, begin with an attempt to compromise a single system, or user. The compromise of a device or user account gives the attacker a small foothold in an environment that they…
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Tuesday, 22 February 2022 11:26
Google Finds a Sneaky Way to Keep Tracking Paid Workspace Users
Written by Sean Kalinich
Google has a bit of a history (understatement) of abusing data collection and sneaking in ways to continue collecting data on its users. This type of collection is all in service to their ad business. They want to be able…
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Tuesday, 22 February 2022 09:15
Meta Makes Changes to Instagram Daily Time Limit Warnings after Disappointing Revenue Report
Written by Sean Kalinich
Recently Mark Zuckerberg had to admit that Meta not only had lost a significant amount of money but stood to lose more as changes in attitudes around personal data privacy and targeted ads are changing. In the EU privacy protection…
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Tuesday, 22 February 2022 08:18
Another Banking Trojan for Android is making the Rounds Through Google’s Play Store
Written by Sean Kalinich
Google has a bit of an issue with malware present in their Play Store as there are reports of another banking trojan targeting users of European banks. Currently, the malware called Xenomorph may have infected as many as 50,000 devices…
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Tuesday, 22 February 2022 06:57
It Feels Like 99 Again as Two Digit Bug May Impact Multiple Browsers May be Impacted by Version Change
Written by Sean Kalinich
In mid-1999 software and hardware developers uncovered a bug of sorts that, at first glance, seemed like it would end the computer world as we know it. It was called the Y2K bug and centered around the issue that somehow…
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Monday, 21 February 2022 10:55
Flaws, they’re not Just for Attackers Anymore as Researchers Find a way to Recover the Master Key for Hive Ransomware
Written by Sean Kalinich
There is an old saying that say, what someone can lock, someone else can unlock. This is usually used regarding attackers getting into a network or compromising protected data. It is not often applied to security researchers unlocking information encrypted…
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Monday, 21 February 2022 08:29
The Risks, the Crime, and the Illusions of Blockchain or Decentralized Networks.
Written by Sean Kalinich
Blockchain, the immutable public transaction log where many say the future lies and the concept of “code is law” is often bandied about. However, the bank ending utopian promise of block chain and web3.0 has not exactly arrived and it…
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Friday, 18 February 2022 10:12
Concerned about Android Tracking? You Can Remove your Ad ID in Android 12 and Up to Help with This
Written by Sean Kalinich
After Google talked about their response to Apple requiring user acceptance for cross app tracking on mobile devices, the internet sort of exploded with different articles about the pros and cons of each. We wrote about this 2 days ago…
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Friday, 18 February 2022 08:29
Linux has a New Local Privilege Escalation Bug in Snap-Confine
Written by Sean Kalinich
Linux has always had something of a mystique about it. Regardless of the distro (flavor) of Linux there simply certain misconception around Linux that are both entertaining and concerning. One of my all-time favorites was/is that it is a “hacker”…
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Friday, 18 February 2022 07:38
Microsoft to Require Microsoft Account for Windows 11 Pro Soon
Written by Sean Kalinich
Will someone tell Microsoft (again) that to lead in the industry means not just following the competition? They seem to have lost that message again as we are hearing that they will require a Microsoft account to set up and…
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