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Mauchel Barthelemy commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, February 23, on the site 7 years, 5 months ago
Thank you Mengqi for this article. I believe this Metasploit extension is a crucial step towards improving IoT security. Pen-testers and companies should take full advantage of this to stay a couple steps ahead of the bad guys.
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Mauchel Barthelemy commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, February 9, on the site 7 years, 5 months ago
Why do companies tend to have users change their passwords themselves as an initial step to interact with employees or consumers after a potential security breach? Isn’t such reaction become too predictable for hackers? If so, aren’t they using this in their own advantage? I’m not saying it’s a bad strategy to suggest so; however, I believe a…[Read more]
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Mauchel Barthelemy wrote a new post on the site MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing 7 years, 5 months ago
The author of this article, David Nield, did a wonderful job explaining how users can take advantage of all security features from all major technology platforms. Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, you […]
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Mauchel Barthelemy posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
I was not aware that they allegedly often times sent their employees to work at large tech companies to have them intentionally install back-doors. This is something major if happens to be true and could spark major debates, lawsuits or change the IT Security industry forever.
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Mauchel Barthelemy commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, February 16, on the site 7 years, 5 months ago
They are at least trying to do something positive out of this unfortunate situation. It’s hard want to put blames on whoever in a situation like this for a company of Yahoo’s magnitude. Outsiders will never know and understand what really happened besides there was some sort of negligence, and as a result Yahoo got hacked. It’s complicated. It’s…[Read more]
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Mauchel Barthelemy wrote a new post on the site MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing 7 years, 5 months ago
Another month another WikiLeaks revelation, and cybersecurity is right in the middle of it all. As you probably already heard this past week, WikiLeaks released what many believe to be CIA’s tools arsenal to h […]
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Mauchel Barthelemy posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
Thanks for bringing this up Scott. A friend of mine is managing a small business website using WordPress. We walked through this and verified the vulnerability, so he quickly updated WordPress to the latest version.
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Mauchel Barthelemy posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
This is the reason it makes perfect sense to place a data center away from see-through windows locations. Hackers will not hesitate to go above and beyond to come up with new ways to steal people’s information every chance they get. IT security professionals and researchers should think the same. Researchers at Ben-Gurion University exemplify g…[Read more]
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Mauchel Barthelemy posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
Very good article Brent. I have not been to Arby’s for a while, so I’m unsure if the restaurant franchise now enables the chip technology in debit/credit cards. If not, this might be a good time for them to start because the chip method is more secure.
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Mauchel Barthelemy posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
Penetration testing must neither be a one-time effort nor should it be occasionally. Pen-testing should be regarded as a long-term business commitment by organizations of all sizes. New forms of vulnerabilities are discovered almost every day. Therefore, one of the best ways to minimize the chances of being hacked are to follow news, keep…[Read more]
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Mauchel Barthelemy posted a new activity comment 7 years, 5 months ago
Interesting piece of discovery. I will give this a try on a virtual Windows 7 machine in my testing environment. But first, for how long these exploits have been around? Aren’t these vulnerabilities Microsoft should have already addressed by now?
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Mauchel Barthelemy commented on the post, Progress Report for Week Ending, February 9, on the site 7 years, 5 months ago
I’m not sure if this is either more of a Google’s Android issue or a developer one. Regardless what is, all parties involved should play their part to resolve this issue. Like I always say, the key here will be to work together. Together is stronger, and in turn stronger is better against hacking. The Android team will need to reinforce the…[Read more]
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Mauchel Barthelemy commented on the post, Happy Birthday SNL // the typists from the Carol Burnett show, on the site 7 years, 5 months ago
If I’m not mistaken, I believe the author is referring to the wireless portable USB chargers. The ones you charge at home and carry around to simply plug into your smart device once running out of battery.
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Mauchel Barthelemy commented on the post, Happy Birthday SNL // the typists from the Carol Burnett show, on the site 7 years, 5 months ago
Well, this should not be a surprise because most private organizations have not taken cyber security serious until recent years. Therefore, it will take some time before students realize demand is rapidly growing in this field. It won’t be long before cyber security talent’s demand catches up with software programming. In fact, these two will go…[Read more]
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Mauchel Barthelemy commented on the post, Happy Birthday SNL // the typists from the Carol Burnett show, on the site 7 years, 5 months ago
Great post Mengqi! I’m going to conduct a research to find out how reliable is this claim. I currently use several devices from which I set voice recognition as one of the authentication methods. Also, I am using a banking service that allows account access via voice recognition. I recently enabled this feature, so I am anxious to verify how…[Read more]
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Mauchel Barthelemy wrote a new post on the site MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing 7 years, 5 months ago
Change your passwords now! Believe that this is the best way to start warning you about what I’m about to tell you. In case you have not heard, Heartbleed 2.0 is here and it is called Cloudbleed. This is the l […]
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I feel like I need a full week off to change all of my passwords! Probably for the better though. There has been a major uptick in brute force password and account enumeration attacks using credentials obtained from breaches such as LinkedIn, Yahoo, etc. Probably a better time than ever to do a massive password update, especially to online banking and investment sites and online retail stores (e.g. Amazon).
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Mauchel Barthelemy wrote a new post on the site MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing 7 years, 6 months ago
MIS5212 Assignment1 (Executive Summary)
MIS5212 Assignment1 (Presentation)
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Mauchel Barthelemy wrote a new post on the site MIS 5212-Advanced Penetration Testing 7 years, 6 months ago
Let me start with Selena Larson’s (a CNN tech reporter) opening idea of this article, “I know the feeling: Your battery is low, but you have to keep tweeting. You see a USB port or an outlet in public, plug in you […]
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I’m not surprised that charging stations with USB outlets are at risk, but I’m not clear from this article if traditional outlets could also be used to hack your phone. The article recommends using your own portable USB battery pack, but if you have your own USB cord and plug, are you really at risk if you plug this into a traditional wall outlet?
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If I’m not mistaken, I believe the author is referring to the wireless portable USB chargers. The ones you charge at home and carry around to simply plug into your smart device once running out of battery.
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Mauchel Barthelemy posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
It probably wasn’t a good idea to bring the NES back after all. On a serious note, this is a good example for those who probably believe cyber security has not been around too long ago. On the contrary, older technologies posed securities threats too and were probably as unsecured as newer technologies. The main difference here is that today’s…[Read more]
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Mauchel Barthelemy posted a new activity comment 7 years, 6 months ago
Loi, I totally agree with you on this one. Backdoor is nothing but a necessary evil the majority of times. Somehow, some way, it will be discovered and most likely by the bad guys. Organizations should stay away from creating backdoor because it auto-destructs.
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