Kippo is one of my favorite honeypots due to its sheer simplicity, portability, and ease-of-use. It comes with a really neat feature that allows you to replay what the attacker did once they gained access to the honeypot by way…
Read MoreJanuary 9, 2015
Earlier this week, online greetings card company Moonpig took its API offline as a flaw was enabling orders to be placed on customer accounts by hackers. The flaw, identified by researcher Paul Price, allowed hackers to bypass authentication security and…
Read MoreJanuary 8, 2015
“A Successful SIEM deployment: truth or fantasy”…a controversial opening statement one might say for a consultant who works for a SIEM provider (LogRhythm) and preaches the virtues of the technology. Am I saying that a successful SIEM deployment is a…
Read MoreJanuary 7, 2015
All kind of different services, like web browsing, email, active directory, etc., use the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol to turn IP addresses into human readable names and vice versa. DNS was never intended to be used for data transfer,…
Read MoreDecember 17, 2014
Windows account lockout policies are an effective and recommended best practise for securing against brute force attacks. When these activities occurs within the perimeter of an Enterprise’s network, LogRhythm’s SIEM makes it a simple task to quickly work out the…
Read MoreDecember 10, 2014
On Tuesday, Microsoft released an emergency update to Windows Server 2003 through 2012 R2 to address a vulnerability that enables an attacker to escalate privileges for any account on a Windows Domain. The vulnerability can be detected in Windows Server…
Read MoreNovember 19, 2014
