Learn about the different types of threats facing our networks and systems
Category: Threats & Vulnerabilities
Volkswagen Golf GTE And Audi3 Sportback e-tron Car Models Vulnerable to Remote Hacking
Hacking vehicles isn't anything new. Over recent years, researchers have demonstrated through proof-of-concept experiments that many popular car models can be hacked by exploiting carefully selected vulnerabilities for a particular system integrated into the vehicle. Just ask Ford, Jeep, Nissan, and Toyota. Some of these vehicles can be remotely turned off; some of them can ...
Orangeworm Mounting an Espionage Campaign Against the Healthcare Sector
A hacking group, dubbed "Orangeworm," is conducting highly coordinated and deliberate cyberattacks against healthcare facilities in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. According to many reports, Orangeworm is compromising healthcare systems like network shares and servers, but most notably, MRI and X-Ray machines. With the recent uptick in compromised IoT devices, it should come to no ...
Scan Your Home Network for Vulnerabilities Using Nessus
Nessus is a proprietary vulnerability scanner created by Tenable, Inc. It is free to home users for personal use (Nessus Home), but requires a license for commercial use (Nessus Professional). Obviously, the commercial version comes with more features, but this does not in any way degrade the effectiveness of Nessus Home. With Nessus Home, users ...
A Simple Guide to Vulnerability Management
A "vulnerability assessment" discovers what vulnerabilities are present on your organization's infrastructure and classifies them according to their level of criticality. Vulnerability assessments are usually conducted by qualified personnel or Approved Scanning Vendors (ASVs) by means of a vulnerability scanner, such as Nessus, OpenVAS, QualysGuard, Nexpose, and so on. These are special forms of software ...
What is Penetration Testing?
Penetration testers are hired ethical hackers tasked with simulating a real-world attack on an organization's networks and systems. Think of it as an intrusive security assessment that measures the organization's level of resistance to an attack. The great thing about penetration tests are that they test the organization's capabilities to defend against real-world attacks and ...
The Cybersecurity Man 