Category: Cyber Attacks
The Sony Pictures Entertainment Hack: A Look at the Evidence We Have
Note: Much of this information comes from an official affidavit, The United States of America vs. Park Jin Hyok, also known as ("aka") "Jin Hyok Park," aka "Pak Jin Hek," (United States District Court for the Central District of Caliornia June 8, 2018). If you want to review the entire 179-page document, it's available at https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1092091/download. The ...
Security Researchers Confirm an Additional 7,500 Hacked MikroTik Routers Spying on Network Traffic
MikroTik is a Latvian company which was founded in 1996 to develop routers and wireless ISP systems. The company is predominantly known for its RouterOS software system. With distributors located all around the world, including the United States, MikroTik should sound fairly familiar even though this is primarily a Cisco-dominant networking world. In July, researchers ...
Timehop was Hacked – Data Breach Exposes 21 Million Users
Timehop, the extremely popular app that allows users to share their previous moments, has reported that it was the victim of a major data breach over the holiday, which took place on the Fourth of July. Timehop is available for both iOS and Android smartphone users and, since its startup in 2011, the app has ...
The Recent 4G LTE Network Vulnerabilities and Attacks
In this blog post, I'll discuss the design and operation of a 4G LTE network. In hindsight, I realize topics such as these can get extremely lengthy. For that reason, I'll limit this discussion down to only the necessary technical details required to understand these new LTE attacks, while excluding any complicating, non-essentials. These new ...
PenTest Edition: Testing Strong WPA2 Wi-Fi Passwords Using Fluxion
Fluxion Is The Future! Fluxion is accurately just a Wi-Fi analysis tool that comes with a list of very useful penetration testing programs, such as Aircrack-ng, Aireplay-ng, Airodump-ng, awk, bully, curl, dhcpd, hostapd, lighttpd etc. It is a remake of linset by vk496, available on Github. Unlike many other Wi-Fi analysis tools that use a dictionary ...
The Cybersecurity Man 