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Social(Networking+Engineering) Defeats Physical Security

November 2, 2017 Jared Hall General No Comments

I found an interesting article on Motherboard from a Pentester named Sophie Daniel.  She did more than your standard online cybersecurity Penetration Testers do; she gained unrestricted physical access to a secure facility.  Here’s the general process of the attack: Acquired Business Information Solicited business Information through website data, aerial/satellite photographs, and maps. Acquired Personnel […]

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Chrome Browser Update: 62.0.3202.75

November 1, 2017 Jared Hall General No Comments

Google has released Chrome version 62.0.3202.75 for all operating systems.  This fixes a high-severity stack-based buffer overflow bug. My Chrome browser did not update automatically, but did so when I went into Settings->Help->About Chrome. Threat Post has a more detailed write-up here: https://threatpost.com/google-patches-high-severity-browser-bug/128661/

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Bits on Bitcoin!

November 1, 2017 Jared Hall General, Internet Security No Comments

Author: Jared Hall Revision: 1.0 URL: https://www.jaredsec.com/2017/11/01/bits-on-bitcoin Date: 11/01/2017 Introduction In the midst of the global financial crisis, a paper was anonymously authored in November of 2008. It described a peer-to-peer, distributed, electronic payment system without the oversight of a “trusted” central party, like a bank, PayPal, or the Federal Reserve. The paper was titled: “Bitcoin“. […]

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Speed Dating for SysAdmins

October 17, 2017 Jared Hall Humor No Comments

I got a chuckle out of this comic found on Google IT.  This should be titled: How not to pick up girls!

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BOLO: WPA2 WiFi KRACKed. Ouch!

October 17, 2017 Jared Hall BOLOs, Internet Security No Comments

Perhaps a more apropos title would be:  When “Nonce” is not enough!  Holy cow, Batman, we’re in for a bumpy ride.  The WPA2 protocol is vulnerable to an attack “in-the-wild” called Key Reinstallaton AttaCK (KRACK).  This affects both Client devices and Servers (Router/Access Point). A “Nonce” is a number, usually generated in a pseudo-random fashion […]

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A Netsec’s Favorite Mayonnaise

October 14, 2017 Jared Hall Humor No Comments

From Google’s IT Forum:

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday: October 2017

October 10, 2017 Jared Hall General No Comments

Hmm.  It’s another big update.  Front and Center is CVE-2017-11826, a Remote Code Excecution, Zero-Day bug in all versions of Office 2007 and later, Word Automation Services, and Microsoft Office Web Apps server.  This is important since there are active exploits of this bug “in the wild”. Two other Zero-Day bugs were fixed, CVE-2017-8703 (DOS in the […]

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VPN Services: A Primer

October 10, 2017 Jared Hall Internet Security, Telecom Security No Comments

So, I got an Email last week from a fellow in Estonia asking me to add his site to my list of links.  I don’t really want to link to everybody with an article, but these people did such a good job evaluating different VPN systems that it is worthy to write about it. Their site […]

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The How & Why of Caller-ID/SMS Spoofing

October 9, 2017 Jared Hall General No Comments

Caller-ID Spoofing?  There’s an App for that! I recently received correspondence from individuals that I did not communicate and quickly determined that an unknown party has been spoofing my phone number.  Between 2006 and 2007, I did some work for a small, local CLEC that had a CLASS 5 switch in St. Petersburg.  They had […]

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Common Mistakes Made With Your Tech Partners

October 7, 2017 Jared Hall General No Comments

ZDNet published an article “Ten mistakes to avoid when working with tech partners“, summarized herein by specifying what a company should do: Don’t treat all tech partners the same. Each of your tech partners have different functions, styles, and backgrounds.  They each contribute to your success in a different way.  You cannot manage them in […]

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