Daily Archives: January 27, 2015

DOE Grants $25 Million for Cybersecurity Education

The Department of Energy announced it will provide $25 million in funding over the next five years to support cybersecurity education at more than a dozen Historically Black Colleges and Universities. As highlighted by the President earlier a couple weeks … Continue reading

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Doxing

Here are some doxing tutorials.

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Under 11 Minutes to Crack WiFi for 7 Year Old

Seven-year-old Betsy Davis, using only youtube videos for knowledge, was able to find out how to hack the controlled environment’s public WiFi. She set up a rogue access point for a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack, which allowed her to steal data … Continue reading

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Cisco’s 2015 Security Report

Cisco said Java represented a whopping 91 percent of all indicators of compromise, the best way to combat it? With some good old fashioned Security Awareness. Cisco’s 2015 annual security report,  was released last week. As part of its report, … Continue reading

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Ghost to the Shell

During a code audit, researchers at Qualys discovered a buffer overflow in the __nss_hostname_digits_dots() function of glibc which can get access to the shell. The GHOST vulnerability is a serious weakness in the Linux glibc library. It allows attackers to … Continue reading

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Game of Hacks

Test your application hacking skills! You will be presented with vulnerable pieces of code and you must find which vulnerability exists in that code as quickly as possible. You can also submit questions.

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