Burp Suite – Ookla.com
‘Frighteningly Easy’ Hack Guesses Full Credit Card Details in 6 Seconds.
Researchers from the UK’s Newcastle University have developed a so-called Distributed Guess Attack that essentially circumvents all security features for protecting online payments to steal card number, CVV and expiration date of any Visa card. The attack takes advantage of the manner that different online merchants request different types of information for processing a credit or debt card payment, even though most of them at a minimum require the card number or and expiry date. In addition, there is no mechanism currently in place to detect multiple invalid payment request made on the same card yet from different online merchant sites. Therefore, it is possible that a hacker to make unlimited times of guess on a card’s CVV or expiration date by spreading the guesses across multiple sites. Based on these two manners, an attacker can obtain full card details by automatically generating and verifying different combinations, and the process can be done through 1,060 and 60,000 attempts and takes only six seconds. The guessing attack worked only on Visa’s network. MasterCard’s network would quickly detect the guessing attack.
I was surprised that Visa would have such a great vulnerability in its credit and debt card payment process. As one of the world largest financial service corporation, Visa processed 100 billion transactions with a total volume of US $6.8 trillion. Over 1.5 billion credit cards are Visa cards. With such a large number of users and transaction volume, this vulnerability is an great challenge to Visa that it has to figure out an appropriate solution to improve this security issue and protect its customer information.
Burp Suite Analysis of CNN.com
CNN.com has a reputation among my colleagues in IT for how long it takes to load its front page. I reasoned that it must be pulling in many resources from third party sites. Therefore I thought it would be an ideal target for the Burp Suite intercepting proxy.
Burp Suite Analysis-xfinity
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1- TalkTalk and Post Office customers hit by Mirai worm attack 2- Ransomware Crooks Demand $70,000 After Hacking San Francisco Transport System
1- TalkTalk and Post Office customers hit by Mirai worm attack
It has been reported this week that 900,000 routers hit by huge Mirai worm cyber-attack. TalkTalk and Post Office customers were largely affected by this attack in United Kingdom. The good news is that TalkTalk has identified the source of the problem and rolled out a resolution to all customers. Also, a UK Post Office spokesperson confirmed that customers still experiencing problems should reboot their router as a solution. Luckily this was something that TalkTalk and the UK Post Office quickly addressed. Below is the article.
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/deutsche-telekom-cyber-attack-mirai
2- Ransomware Crooks Demand $70,000 After Hacking San Francisco Transport System
I know we already posted topics about ransomware on our class blogs, but I also found this article interesting as ransomware is becoming a more and more popular form of attack from hackers. This week, Forbes reported that hackers took control of the San Francisco transportation system and demanded 100 Bitcoin, worth roughly $70,000, to release Muni machines from their control. Ransomware should be one of the areas of focus for cyber security. Article is below.
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