CSET is a desktop software package that will allow network administrators to assess currently deployed security strategies against a set of industry best practices and government standards to increase consistency on an organization’s cybersecurity posture. U.S. CERT has provided the following information on the CSET software toolkit: ***Overview ****Critical infrastructures are dependent on information technology systems…
Month: October 2011
MAD Security awarded $1.2M Four-Year BPA Contract with US Coast Guard
The American government has been on a spending spree grabbing contracts with security firms for a huge range of divisions. The latest is the American coast guard, they have been awarded a 1.2 million four year contract to provide security training and solutions. Mad security has been providing the us federal government with security solutions and training for some…
Why National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a waste of time
So, October has been classed as National Cybersecurity Awareness… pretty lame if you ask me and even worse its the 8th one. Over the past few days security based media and even non security based media have been reporting all kinds of stuff on this CSAM. Well its my time now and im about to…
Anonymous Advise against #InvadeWallStreet attacks
Recently there was an announcement for an attack on NYSE; Anonymous has released a statement that asks anons not to fall for this disinformation and not to take part in any type fo attacks. This information comes from the Anonymous Wiki pastebin account. Greetings Fellow Anons: As brothers and sisters, we have to look out for one…
3300+ Accounts leaked from funniestvideosonline.com by @ThEhAcKeR12
@ThEhAcKeR12 has dump a preview of accounts with a link to the download files. These accounts come from the funniestvideosonline.com website and are all encrypted passwords. https://pastebin.com/reQH78pa @ThEhAcKeR12 has also dump a sheet with wikipedia exploits via sqli. https://pastebin.com/stEw7bUk
Hacking “to protect others” is still hacking, kid
Shaun Tan reports on AsiaOne that a 20-year old student in Singapore decided to “help” those whose email addresses and passwords had been exposed by LulzSec dumping the database from 55 porn sites. Rather than just emailing those individuals to warn them, however, he decided to take matters into his own hands to change their…