Lately we have been seeing in the security news of a newer type of attack called ” DNS amplification attack” or what was known as a SMURF attack How does it work ? The attack works when an attacker finds an open dns server that accepts look-ups from outside its network (aka misconfiguration) and spoofs […]
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General alexander of the NSA speaks on technology the NSA is using for counterterrorism and cyber-terrorisim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvVIZ4OyGnQ General Alexander speaks on phone monitoring in the U.S. and how it is collected according to the general only metadata is collected such as the called number the originating number and duration of call he also speaks on […]
Hey Everyone !, I thought I would do a review on this plug in available for most web browsers the plug in is called HTTPS everywhere This plug in was created by the creators of the Tor network and the EFF what this plug in does is when you visit an HTTP website that supports […]
Lately in the news we have been hearing about security concerns over mobile apps on the android and apple platform the question is should you be concerned? I would say yes, and you should be careful at your mobile app selections if you look at this situation it looks exactly how the pc landscape looks […]
Hey everybody Just wanted to let you all know that I am still working on this blog Just have been very busy lately will have new content next week ! Thank you all for your patience Thanks Sean
Risk considerations for bring your own device in the business environment Written by Sean Mancini The trend In the last 5 years the mobile computing industry has boomed we have more power at our fingertips than ever before thanks to the boom of the smartphone era only now have corporations and businesses have started to […]
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Hello All, So this is a little off topic but important , I am letting you all know that I have made an official team to sponsor Folding @ Home this project is a distributed Computing project that uses idle computers processing power to perform tasks to simulate protein folding you can find more here […]
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Hello Everyone, Today it has been reported a DDOS attack is taking place against the anti-spam provider Spamhaus this attack is considered the largest attack recorded with over 300 GBPS of traffic going towards spamhaus networks spamhaus states that due to their spread out infrastructure The attack comes after Spams blocked access to a web […]
#!/usr/bin/perl # test.pl: small script to test mod_dosevasive’s effectiveness use IO::Socket; use strict; for(0..100) { my($response); my($SOCKET) = new IO::Socket::INET( Proto => “tcp”, PeerAddr=> “test.domain.tld:80”); if (! defined $SOCKET) { die $!; } print $SOCKET “GET /?$_ HTTP/1.0nn”; $response = ; print $response; close($SOCKET); }
Hey all, Just a heads-up one of my followers brought to my attention that the contact form was not going through 🙁 I have since fixed the issue if you have sent a request with the form in the past 2 days and you haven’t received a response first off my apologies, and please fill […]
Hello All I have now opened up the beta test for the secure VPN service I posted about last week again space is limited, and the service will be going up and down due to maintenance during the course of the roll-out I will try to keep the interruptions as brief as possible if you […]