It happened to me a little more complex than expected, so I thought it would deserve a post. There are a few good tutorials already, but they actually did not work flawlessly for me. So while this post is mostly based on them, there are some slight differences. Getting Metasploit First, let’s fetch Metasploit. Adjust…
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This article, which comes with nice screencasts, is an interesting state of art on industrial system – or rather lack of – security. These systems are popularly known as SCADA systems, but SCADA systems are just a subpart of ICS (Industrial Control Systems). Well, there is no surprise that they have been highly insecure from their…
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One of my relative got hacked. After a phone conversation with him, I realized that his computer was hacked a few days before. He told me that he saw the mouse moving by itself, but what happened then was not clear to him. Anyway, he did not feel the urge to call me immediately. Needless to…
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What is McAfee Application Control I had the opportunity to review this security software, and I want to share here the results of my tests. McAfee bought the SolidCore solution and renamed it into McAfee Application Control (along with other features). For convenience, we will keep referring the solution as SolidCore. In a few words, this tool…
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I haven’t investigated much (and I will not more), but since my upgrade to Mac OS 10.8 (Mountain Lion), Safari supports safe renegociation. Meanwhile, I had received a laconic answer from Apple to my bug report saying that they “are aware of this issue”. Note that Safari 6.0 on Lion did not (at least on my…
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