NopSec

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Google security researchers Bodo Moller, Thai Duong and Krzysztof Kotowicz recently uncovered a vulnerability in SSL 3.0 that could allow secure connections to be compromised by attackers. The researchers are calling the attack POODLE, or Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption. “SSL 3.0 is nearly 18 years old, but support for it remains widespread,” Moller wrote in a blog post describing the issue. “Most importantly, nearly all browsers support it and, in order to

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Kali Linux

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Squash the Bugs with Kali 1.0.9a Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve seen a bunch of nasty bugs hit the scene, from shellshock to Debian apt vulnerabilities. As we prefer not to ship vulnerable ISOs, we’ve rolled up new images for our Kali Linux and NetHunter releases as well our Amazon AWS images with the relevant security fixes in place.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Spinbackup is a premier Cloud-to-Cloud Backup Cloud Cybersecurity solutions provider for G Suite and Office 365. The company is an authorized Google Partner featured on the G Suite Marketplace, and an Advanced Technology Partner of Amazon. Over 1,000 organizations with more than 150,000 G Suite users and 20,000 individual Google users currently rely on Spinbackup. […] The post Cloud Data Protection Investment for Spinbackup first appeared on SpinOne.

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NopSec

OCTOBER 3, 2014

If you are like us at NopSec one of the companies that operators on Amazon AWS cloud, this past couple of days resembled a lot more a perilous path. A series of reboot of the entire Amazon cloud forced us and most AWS-based cloud providers to spend long hours in the office or remotely to make sure things were in order after the reboot. “These updates must be completed by Oct. 1 before the issue is made public as part of an upcoming Xen Security Announcement (XSA),” according to the A

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NopSec

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The term “security breach,” and other similar phrases, have become commonplace. This year alone we have seen the data of millions of people illicitly accessed and stolen from the networks of giants like Target, eBay, and JPMorgan Chase. Each week there seems to be a new report on some company falling prey to ever-ready attackers. In order to continue successful business operations, maintain customer trust, and build a strong brand reputation, everyone from the CEO to the network analyst needs to

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NopSec

OCTOBER 10, 2014

It is no secret that hackers have been making the rounds, targeting organizations of all sizes, from national retailers to local financial institutions, using familiar exploits like Heartbleed and Shellshock to execute their hits. 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.

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