Facebook Offering You $1000 to Run Advertisement Against Terrorism

Over a past few times, we have seen a steady growth in the online recruitment of Jihadis from social networking sites by many radical groups. ISIS has topped the online recruitment, and it is the only terror group that leverages the enormous power of Twitter and Facebook to radicalize young minds...

2014-2015 Professional Reading Round-Up

At an earlier point in my career, I used to read a lot of technical security books. From 2006 to 2012 I published a series of Best Book Bejtlich Read posts. Beginning in 2013 I became much more interested in military-derived strategy and history, dating back to my studies at the Air Force Academy...

Windows 2008 GPP exploit-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The test environment Windows 7 ordinary members of the domain Windows 2008 domain controller The first deployment of the GPP, here my deployment strategy is to the domain members are added to a test user, the password is test123 ! Add a local user ! Then came the Group Policy Management ! Will th...

2016 Cybersecurity Predictions

The lessons learned from this past year teach us that no one is immune to cyber threats. The sooner corporate boards and executives come to understand that cybersecurity breaches are a very real and pervasive threat; then the hard work can begin to take preemptive measures and prepare an...

Like it or not, Microsoft Plans to Push Windows 10 Upgrade more Aggressively

This is no surprise that Microsoft wants you to install Windows 10. But, Hey Microsoft, Not everyone wants to upgrade to Windows 10. Many people are happy with Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 OS and don’t want to switch to the newest Windows 10 operating system. Days after the launch of Windows 10,...

Not So Fast! Boyd OODA Looping Is More Than Speed

The name "John Boyd" and the term "OODA Loop" are probably familiar to many of the readers of this blog. I've mentioned one or the other in 2006, 2007, 2009 twice, and 2014. Boyd was a fighter pilot in the Korean war and revolutionized thinking on topics like fighter design and military strategy...

Google is Merging its Chrome OS with Android

Google is planning to merge its Chrome OS with Android operating system and roll out a single operating system by 2017. New Android OS Optimized for Laptops: Yes, a Single Operating system for Mobile devices, desktops, laptops and notebooks, just what Microsoft is offering to its users with Windo...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: wesnoth-1.12.4-1.fc22

The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host against whom none can stand. Choose units from a large pool of specialists,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: wesnoth-1.12.4-1.fc21

The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host against whom none can stand. Choose units from a large pool of specialists,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: wesnoth-1.12.2-1.fc21

The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host against whom none can stand. Choose units from a large pool of specialists,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: wesnoth-1.12.2-1.fc20

The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host against whom none can stand. Choose units from a large pool of specialists,...

RSA Conference Panel on Threat Information Sharing Bill

SAN FRANCISCO – The House of Representatives is considering a pair of information sharing bills this week. Also up for consideration is a data breach notification bill that is not likely to make it into law any time in the near future. According to a panel of experts at the RSA Conference, the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: wesnoth-1.12.2-1.fc22

The Battle for Wesnoth is a turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Build up a great army, gradually turning raw recruits into hardened veterans. In later games, recall your toughest warriors and form a deadly host against whom none can stand. Choose units from a large pool of specialists,...

White House: Internet Not Borderless, but Lacking Interior

WASHINGTON D.C. – In an afternoon keynote address at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit yesterday, Michael Daniel, a special assistant to the president and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, refuted the common sentiment that the Internet is difficult to defend because it is borderless. To th...

FBI — Botnets Infecting 18 Computers per Second. But How Many of Them NSA Holds?

Botnets - a secretly compromised networks of ordinary home and office computers with rogue software or "malware" that are controlled by an individual criminal or a group - has dramatically increased over the past several years and are considered to pose the biggest threat to the Internet. Cyber...

Microsoft Passwords Research on Re-Use

Forget what you’ve been told about password re-use and weak credentials. If we’re to believe collaborating researchers from Microsoft and Carelton University, neither is such a bad idea. Flying in the face of conventional pleading from experts that “password” is a bad password, new research puts...

WordPress Keyword Strategy Internal Links Plugin Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

WordPress Keyword Strategy Internal Links Plugin is prone to a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier:...

CVE-2014-4537

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in inpage.tpl.php in the Keyword Strategy Internal Links plugin 2.0 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 sort, 2 search, or 3 dir parameter...

Cross site scripting

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in inpage.tpl.php in the Keyword Strategy Internal Links plugin 2.0 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 sort, 2 search, or 3 dir parameter...

CVE-2014-4537

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in inpage.tpl.php in the Keyword Strategy Internal Links plugin 2.0 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 sort, 2 search, or 3 dir parameter...