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NY Charges First American Financial for Massive Data Leak

Krebs on Security

had exposed approximately 885 million records related to mortgage deals going back to 2003. Worse still, the DFS found, the vulnerability was discovered in a penetration test First American conducted on its own in December 2018.

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First Cyber Attack ‘Mass Exploiting’ BlueKeep RDP Flaw Spotted in the Wild

Security Affairs

Microsoft has released patches for Windows 7, Server 2008, XP and Server 2003. osum0x0 announced to have has developed a module for the popular Metasploit penetration testing framework to exploit the critical BlueKeep flaw. The researcher Z??osum0x0 ” concludes the expert.

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NSA urges Windows Users and admins to Patch BlueKeep flaw

Security Affairs

Microsoft has released patches for Windows 7, Server 2008, XP and Server 2003. osum0x0 announced to have has developed a module for the popular Metasploit penetration testing framework to exploit the critical BlueKeep flaw. A few hours ago, th e esecurity researcher Z??osum0x0 Enable Network Level Authentication.

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OpenVAS 8.0 Vulnerability Scanning

Kali Linux

Vulnerability scanning is a crucial phase of a penetration test and having an updated vulnerability scanner in your security toolkit can often make a real difference by helping you discover overlooked vulnerable items. For this reason, we’ve manually packaged the latest and newly released OpenVAS 8.0

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UNRAVELING EternalBlue: inside the WannaCry’s enabler

Security Affairs

By scanning a range of IP addresses, they can identify potential targets that have SMB services exposed to the internet. The image below shows prebuilt EternalBlue exploits Cybernews screenshot Shodan and Similar Tools: Shodan is a search engine that scans and indexes internet-connected devices, including vulnerable systems.

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Rainbow Table Attacks and Cryptanalytic Defenses

eSecurity Planet

Cryptanalysts are commonly responsible for penetration testing cryptographic systems like deriving plaintext from the ciphertext. Read more : Best Internet Security Suites & Software. What are Cryptanalysts? Common Types of Cryptanalytic Attacks. Oechslin’s Cryptanalytic Time-Memory Trade-Off.

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Xen and the Art of Vulnerability Maintenance

NopSec

This recent spate of malicious attacks has shown just how vulnerable our Internet-based world is. In the era of ‘Internet of Things’, minor flaws can have catastrophic consequences if vulnerabilities are not fixed in time. Penetration Test There are many reasons to conduct a penetration test.