Week 4 Reading

The reading this week went through a number of additional modules and uses of metasploit. I thought it was fun to read some of the more random ones like the OSX camera exploit that takes a picture from the camera and the ability to see the mines in mine sweeper using mimkatz. The part about creating your own module was a lot for me to take in, slightly beyond my skill set at this time. The GUI section was a walkthrough of both the community version and the version found in Kali, Armitage.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-chrome-gets-ready-to-mark-all-http-sites-as-bad/

Google is preparing to show an icon on all non HTTPS websites in an effort to promote more webmasters to upgrade their websites to a more secure status. The big draw of an HTTPS website is that the connection is encrypted, making any data on the website more secure. I think this is a good initiative. It’s not harming a user’s ability to visit and use an HTTP website but it is responsibly communicating important information to website viewers so that they can make an informed decision about their browsing.