The denial-of-service (DoS) attack, is a common attack used by those who want to make a point or make money, by disrupting the availability of websites and web services. In simple terms the threat actor finds a way to flood a system with malicious network traffic to overload network infrastructure …
CISA issues an advisory on Drupal updates
After WordPress, Drupal is probably one of the most popular web content creation environments. Drupal Releases Security Updates | CISA
Spied on through your webcam – thankfully Screencastify fixed it!
The developers of the Chrome extension, Screencastify, used for capturing and sharing videos from websites, have fixed an issue where victim could have been spied on using the webcam in their device. Any recorded video could then have been stolen. Chrome extension Screencastify fixes webcam spy bug • The Register
I wrote some simple malware to steal credit card data and how that connects to a Texas data breach
OK it was part of my Master course, and it was an attack against a sand-boxed compromised server, and the malware, to be honest, would not last a moment in the real world with the current state of the art when it comes to protecting customer payment information. However the …
Anatomy of a WordPress hack
We have a WordPress protocol that we enact with cyber security clients, the hosting clients who buy into the full support package and it comes as part of the “Be the Best Consultant You Can website package“. It is needed as WordPress sites are very prolific and so they are …
