Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This blog examines the escalating phishing landscape, shortcomings of common anti-phishing approaches, and why implementing a Protective DNS service as part of a layered defense provides the most effective solution. This is where Protective DNS comes in. No reliance on match lists, signatures, or patterns.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Applications and websites can be hardened using application security tools or penetration tests to probe for vulnerabilities or coding oversights. DNS servers can be specifically targeted by attackers and vulnerable to various types of attacks. If the organization does not use it, UDP access to port 53 (DNS) should be blocked.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2019

But if we go on the Akamai blog we can still find a reference to Elknot posted on April 4, 2016 on a topic referred to “ BillGates ”, another DDoS malware whose “ attack vectors available within the toolkit include: ICMP flood, TCP flood, UDP flood, SYN flood, HTTP Flood (Layer7) and DNS reflection floods. The Server Silde (C2 Tool).

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2024

3 Main Types of Firewall Policies 9 Steps to Create a Firewall Policy Firewall Configuration Types Real Firewall Policy Examples We Like Bottom Line: Every Enterprise Needs a Firewall Policy Free Firewall Policy Template We’ve created a free generic firewall policy template for enterprises to download and use.

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Hacker's King

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Reconnaissance, or recon , is the first step in any successful hacking or penetration testing. Clone ReconFTW from GitHub Download the tool by cloning its GitHub repository. This script will download and configure the tools that ReconFTW needs, such as Subfinder , Amass , Nmap , and more 4. These are the steps: 1.Prerequistes:

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Kali Linux

JANUARY 20, 2016

After 5 months of testing our rolling distribution (and its supporting infrastructure), we’re confident in its reliability - giving our users the best of all worlds - the stability of Debian, together with the latest versions of the many outstanding penetration testing tools created and shared by the information security community.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 17, 2024

Figure 1 — Cloudflare RBI Diagram The primary focus of RBI is to prevent user interactions with web-based malware such as cross-site scripting (XSS), drive-by downloads, and various forms of malicious JavaScript. Other RBI solutions are set to a fail-closed state that blocks the download of a file if it cannot scan it.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Often auditing will be performed through the review of networking logs, but penetration testing and vulnerability scanning can also be used to check for proper implementation and configuration. DNS security (IP address redirection, etc.), endpoint security (antivirus, Endpoint Detection and Response, etc.),

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Hacker's King

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Sub-domain takeovers typically happen when DNS records still exist for sub-domains, but the associated resources (like web services) are no longer available. Enumerating Sub-domains: Subzy scans your domain or sub-domains and analyzes their DNS records to pinpoint linked services like AWS, GitHub, or Heroku. Here’s how it works: 1.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

Offering an array of free and open-source DFIR solutions, the SIFT Workstation provides three options for deployment: Download virtual machine, Native installation on Ubuntu system, or Installation on Windows via Linux subsystem. Another top Linux distro for digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) is the Ubuntu-based SIFT Workstation.

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Hacker's King

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

You may like to read more about Dx-Raptro : The PowerFull DOS Tool What You’ll Learn in This Article What is Harvester Passive & Active modules Installation Usages theHarvester is a simple-to-use, yet powerful tool designed to be used during the reconnaissance stage of a red team assessment or penetration test.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Penetration testing and vulnerability scanning should be used to test proper implementation and configuration. Similarly, spoofed domain name system (DNS) and IP addresses can redirect users from legitimate connections to dangerous and malicious websites.

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NopSec

JUNE 16, 2020

Penetration testing demands a diverse skill set to effectively navigate and defeat security controls within the evaluated environment. LLMNR is derived from DNS protocol, and is intended to enable hosts on a local network to easily perform name resolution. In most organizations a WPAD host does not exist.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 28, 2021

Verifying and logging software updates and downloads. More robust security for Domain Name Systems (DNS). Headquartered in Kyiv, Hacken was also founded in 2017 and offers solutions in three areas: blockchain security, penetration testing , and security assessments. Distributed PKI and multi-signature login capabilities.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The final javascript downloader aims to drop a file from [link] placing it into the system temporary directory and naming it nanagrams.exe. work and through a random loop redirects the downloader script to a different dropping URL. In particular the attacker refers to JavaScript through the object “emotionless.Language”. 66.133.129.5)

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NopSec

MARCH 6, 2020

NetBIOS was eventually superseded by Dynamic DNS, and performance further increased with changes to the protocol in SMB v2.0 SMBMap is a handy SMB enumeration utility used in penetration testing! The tool was created with penetration testing in mind. SMBMap was developed to address this gap. Neat, so what now?

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

SaveBreach reported SolarWinds was “using [an] unencrypted plain FTP server for their Downloads server in the age of global CDN technologies.” Attackers can steal source code , detection tools, and penetration testing technologies built to fend off the best malicious threats in the world. Mail DNS controls.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In June, more than six months after DarkHalo had gone dark, we observed the DNS hijacking of multiple government zones of a CIS member state that allowed the attacker to redirect traffic from government mail servers to computers under their control – probably achieved by obtaining credentials to the control panel of the victims’ registrar.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2023

It is not advised that readers attempt to recreate these conditions, attempt to download and use known vulnerable software in any capacity, or attempt these exploitation techniques against systems not owned by the reader. Some are less obvious, such as ensuring sound DNS security through solutions like Cisco Umbrella or DNSFilter.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 16, 2023

Downloadable malware : When clicked, links in emails or extensions on websites immediately download malicious software onto a host machine. DNS attacks : DNS cache poisoning, or hijacking, redirects a legitimate site’s DNS address and takes users to a malicious site when they attempt to navigate to that webpage.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 28, 2023

You decide to take a look at their DNS cache to get a list of internal resources the user has been browsing and as you look through the list, there are several that you recognize based on naming conventions. Introduction Let me paint a picture for you. One in particular might be interesting: Atlassian. version Display version information.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 11, 2023

So originally, it was sold as sort of an entry level penetration testing exam. But effectively the course is supposed to teach basic penetration testing skills. So effectively, it is sent some I think it was XP dirtree which caused a DNS lookup on the collaborator server. TIB3RIUS: Yeah. That one that one.

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NetSpi Technical

DECEMBER 22, 2024

By carefully crafting the payload, we were able to send DNS queries from the backend to an external server under our control to ultimately disclose information about the database including usernames, tables, and service account. Upon executing the payload, we received DNS requests from the server, confirming the vulnerability.

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