ooniprobe - Measure Internet Censorship & Speed

Interested in collecting evidence of Internet censorship? Curious about the speed and performance of the network that you are using? By running the tests in this app, you will examine the following: Blocking of websites Presence of systems that could be responsible for censorship and/or...

APT28: At the Center of the Storm

On Jan. 6, 2017, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence released its Intelligence Community Assessment: Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections. Still, questions persist about Russian involvement. Did the Russian government direct the group responsible for the...

Damn Vulnerable Web Sockets: DVWS

Damn Vulnerable Web Sockets Damn Vulnerable Web Sockets DVWS is a vulnerable web application which works on web sockets for client-server communication. The flow of the application is similar to DVWA . You will find more vulnerabilities than the ones listed in the application. Requirements In the...

OONI - Open Observatory of Network Interference

OONI, the Open Observatory of Network Interference, is a global observation network which aims is to collect high quality data using open methodologies, using Free and Open Source Software FL/OSS to share observations and data about the various types, methods, and amounts of network tampering in...

President Obama Orders 'Full Review' of Possible Russian hacking in US Election

In his final month in office, President Barack Obama has ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to conduct a "full review" of pre-election cyber attacks against Democratic Party organizations that many believe affected the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. The United States intelligence...

Nmap OS Identification (NASL wrapper)

This plugin runs nmap to identify the remote Operating System. NOTE: This routine is only started as a last fallback if other more reliable OS detection methods failed. This routine also has a few additional drawbacks: - Depending on the exposed services on the target it might take a considerable...

Wi-Fi Signal Interference Can Leak Your Passwords and Keystrokes

Hackers can steal your sensitive information, such as your Passwords, PINs and Keystrokes, from your phone by observing changes in the wireless signal as you enter them into your smartphones. A group of researchers from the Shanghai Jaio Tong University, the University of South Florida and the...

Election Leaks Failed to Move Needle on Polls

The barrage of information leaks, state-sponsored espionage and hacktivism related to the U.S. presidential election has had a mixed bag of effects on the race and voter confidence. For the most part, attacks against organizations supporting both major political parties, extensive email leaks and...

MIT Researchers Solve the Spectrum Crunch to make Wi-Fi 10 times Faster

While using your cell phone at a massive public event, like a concert, conference, or sporting event, you have probably experienced slow communication, poor performance or slow browsing speeds, as crowds arrive. That's because of ‘Spectrum Crunch’, which means, Interference of WiFi signals with...

Timing of Browser-Based Security Alerts Could Be Better

Multitasking may be the way of the connected world, but as it turns out, it’s not conducive to secure behavior online. Academics from Brigham Young University and the University of Pittsburgh came to that conclusion after using functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI to study how the brain...

CVE-2016-2398

Comcast XFINITY Home Security System does not properly maintain base-station communication, which allows physically proximate attackers to defeat sensor functionality by interfering with ZigBee 2.4 GHz transmissions...

Comcast Xfinity home security system is exposed to serious vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, researchers found that Comcast Xfinity home security system a security vulnerability exists, an attacker can not trigger the alarm of the premise into the user homes. Comcast（Comcast is the largest U.S. cable TV company, but also broadband Internet and IP telephony service provider...

Memory corruption

libpthread in Apple iOS before 8.4.1 and OS X before 10.10.5 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service memory corruption via an app that uses a crafted syscall to interfere with locking...

CVE-2015-5757

libpthread in Apple iOS before 8.4.1 and OS X before 10.10.5 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause a denial of service memory corruption via an app that uses a crafted syscall to interfere with locking...

Scientists have Increased Fiber Optic capacity Nearly 20 Times

There’s a lot of speculations and fears regarding the fiber optic network that delivers the Internet to your home and offices — What will happen when the fiber optic cables max out? Well, there is nothing to fear about it. Your Internet is Safe! Scientists at the University of California, San...

Congress Looking Into Restricting Power of Government-Owned CAs

UPDATE–As the debate over potential government interference with encryption technologies rages in countries around the world, Congress is now going down a different path, asking technology companies whether it’s feasible and potentially effective for certificate authorities to restricting the way...

EMC Secure Remote Services Virtual Edition Provisioning component is affected by SQL injection

------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC Secure Remote Services Virtual Edition Provisioning component is affected by SQL injection ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Han Sahin, November 2014...

Antivirus Exclusions for Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam Threat Hunter service Exclusions When upgrading to Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3, the installer's Configuration Check will display a warning advising: The new Veeam Threat Hunter service scanning process might be interrupted by existing antivirus software on mount hosts. Please read KB199...

Enterprise Manager: Failed to create website 0x80070020

Challenge Attempting to install/upgrade Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager fails with the following error: Failed to create website 0x80070020 Cause Local antivirus or antimalware software is interfering with the installation process. Solution Disable any local antivirus or antimalware software and...

Majority of 4G USB Modems, SIM Cards Exploitable

Researchers say 4G USB modems contain exploitable vulnerabilities through which attackers could, and researchers have, managed to gain full control of the machines to which the devices are connected. Researchers from Positive Technologies presented a briefing detailing how to compromise USB modem...