ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking
Wade Mackey
https://thehackernews.com/2017/06/wordpress-hacking-sql-injection.html
Speaking of wordpress since we use that here 🙂 This site basically sums up how vulnerable sites that use
a WordPress plugin are potentially to sql injection related attacks. Hopefully our schools site doesn’t use this
plugin that is causing all sorts of problems.
https://www.wired.com/2017/03/whatsapp-hack-shows-even-encryption-apps-vulnerable-browser/
This site goes over in detail what happened to the Whatsapp application recently where their
encryption apps were even broken into. It just goes to show that anything is potentially vulnerable if
if it is on the web in a public space and not private.
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/dhs-mandates-dmarc-https/
Here we can see what attempts the federal govt is taking to secure the govt networks.
It is good to see that they are trying to step up their security more and more.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2017/02/20/four-disruptive-cyber-trends-at-rsa/#5272e2d69917
This article is interesting in all of the different kinds of cyber tools out there that companies could use to
analyze any kind of potential cyber security attack on their systems.
https://www.databreachtoday.com/dhs-official-no-proof-kaspersky-software-used-to-hack-fed-it-a-10456
Despite everyone’s concern about the Russians using Kaspersky to spy on the governments computer systems there is no evidence that this has occurred. While at the same time ruining a corporations image. People react out of fear and in this case it proves it in my opinion.
https://thehackernews.com/2014/06/new-banking-malware-with-network.html
This is an interesting article in that it discusses how attackers used a combination of malware
and network sniffers to attack users to try to gain their bank information. This is pretty unsettling as
more and more attacks like this happen. Makes you not trust banks and their software as more and more
cases like this in the news is reported.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/hacked-home-devices-can-spy-you-n814671
This is kind of scary considering more and more of our appliances/devices connect to the internet.
It is scary because if hackers really want to mess with major corporations they can potentially mess
with them through their appliances without them knowing it.