Hacker Tools for Information Gathering

When starting an security assessment or penetration test with a new client, often the first step is information gathering or reconnaissance. Sure, you could just ask the client for the information you want, but where’s the fun in that?  Here is a list of tools to use to find information that they may not know is publicly available.

Google hacking or Google “dorks” – Johnny Long literally wrote the book about Google ...

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cybersecurity, Security, surveillance

What Are You Letting OUT of Your Network?

I had an interesting question from a client last month.  They were looking for guidance on “egress filtering.”  Egress filtering is the concept of tuning your perimeter defenses (firewalls, routers, IDS*, and UTM* devices) to review and restrict the flow of information that is leaving your network.

Historically, most perimeter defenses are are designed to keep ...

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MAY
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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, Security

Go Big or Stay Home

It is my belief that if you are planning a crime, you might as well go for the glory.  The jail time is the same whether you steal $50,000 or $50 million.

I’m not sure if this is the biggest phishing scam ever, but it is the biggest I’ve heard of.  A Lithuanian man named Evaldas Rimasaukas devised a scheme that extracted over $100 million from Google and Facebook.  He achieved this ...

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MAY
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cybersecurity, Phishing, social engineering

Report and Recover from Identity Theft with New FTC Service

Identity theft is a crime that can take years to recover from.  One of the early problems for an identity theft victim has been the requirement to file a police report.  Many police departments do not devote much effort to identity theft, so sometimes getting the police to actually create a report and provide you with a report number can difficult.  If ...

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MAY
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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, Identity Theft, law and policy, passwords, Phishing, Security, social engineering

How Do You Know If Your Identity Was Stolen?

Identity theft can be devastating, and painfully hard to resolve.  It can have negative effects on your credit rating.  It could result in you being arrested for an open warrant on charges for a crime committed by the person who is using your identity.  Identity theft occurs in different ways.  Sometimes is is part of an online scam that may start with ...

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MAY
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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, Identity Theft, Phishing, social engineering

Anti-Drone Tactics

Drones have become the must-have item for many people this year.  Some of them are your neighbors, and they may be annoying you or intruding on your privacy.  On the other hand, it may be a member of our military hunting a terrorist.  Or, increasingly, it may be a terrorist using a drone to provide surveillance, or worse yet, deliver something deadly like ...

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MAY
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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, Security, surveillance

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The Google Docs Hoax: What Have We Learned?

It has been a couple of weeks since the Google Docs hoax spread across the Internet like wildfire.  What have we learned about this exploit?

Originally this appeared to be a phishing campaign, but phishing emails are spoofed clever replicas.  These emails were the genuine article, and were sent from Google mail servers, from the hijacked Google accounts of people you were likely to know.  This made the exploit difficult to ...

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MAY
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Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, Identity Theft, passwords, Phishing, Security, social engineering, Software vulnerability, Virus

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