Category Archives: Reading

I read this last week: WC 3 December 2018

Here’s a few of the interesting and useful articles and tools that I’ve come across last week. Articles and news: Investigating eCommerce scammers on Amazon using OSINT OSINT expert Jake Creps takes  deep dive into the OSINT tools available to identify fraudulent and scamming vendors on Amazon Automation of parsing hundreds of declassified CIA documents… Read More »

I read this last week: WC 26 November 2018

Here’s a few of the interesting and useful articles and tools that I’ve come across last week (after a couple of weeks away on holiday) Articles and news: How Azure could be vulnerable to brute force and DOS attacks One might presume that Azure Active Directory is secure, but is it? Hacking team hacker Phineas… Read More »

I read this last week: WC 29 October 2018

Here’s a few of the interesting and useful articles and tools that I’ve come across last week. Articles and news: 30 years ago, the world’s first cyberattack set the stage for modern cybersecurity challenges Back in November 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, was a 20-something graduate student at Cornell who wanted to know how big the… Read More »

I read this last week: WC 22 October 2018

Here’s a few of the interesting and useful articles and tools that I’ve come across last week. Articles and news: Badge Cloning: Clone HID Prox with Proxmark3 RDV4 – Standalone Mode You see those folks badging into their secure facilities, and you think to yourself, “Self. I, too, would like to badge into those secure… Read More »

I read this last week: WC 15 October 2018

Here’s a few of the interesting and useful articles and tools that I’ve come across last week. Articles and news: Zero-day in popular jQuery plugin actively exploited for at least three years For at least three years, hackers have abused a zero-day in one of the most popular jQuery plugins to plant web shells and… Read More »

I read this last week: WC 08 October 2018

Here’s a few of the interesting and useful articles and tools that I’ve come across last week. Articles and news: A beginners guide to Vulnhub This is a guide for anyone who has an interested in penetration testing but no experience with it. 5 ways to bypass account lockout in web applications Where a system… Read More »

I read this last week: WC 01 October 2018

Here’s a few of the interesting and useful articles and tools that I’ve come across last week. Articles and news: Dark Web Report + TorGhost + EyeWitness == Goodness Outlining the automated tools and process used to grab screenshots of Dark Web sites. Caveat Emptor: Be very aware that blindly collecting screen grabs from Dark Web sites… Read More »

I read this last week: WC 24 September 2018

Here’s a few of the interesting and useful articles and tools that I’ve come across last week. Articles and news: Thick client: The attacking databases the fun/easy way I was recently looking at a desktop application of a large security firm which manages the security of various large buildings around the UK…… 50 Million Facebook… Read More »

I read this last week: WC 17 September 2018

Here’s a few of the interesting and useful articles and tools that I’ve come across last week. Articles and news: Basic penetration testing lab – 1 Setting up a penetration testing lab from scratch Head in the clouds A primer for cloud services, focusing on security issues related to storage and VM’s List of InfoSec… Read More »

I read this last week: WC 10 September 2018

Here’s a few of the interesting and useful articles and tools that I’ve come across last week. Articles and news: Inside the Magecart breach of British Airways: How 22 lines of code claimed 380,000 victims A report by RiskIQ into the ba.com data breach From OSINT to Internal: Gaining domain admin from outside the permiter… Read More »