A Maryland security firm has released an open-source tool that can be used to exploit a vulnerability that permits the brute force hacking of wireless routers, connected using the WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) standard, to retrieve passwords.
A computing standard than enables users to easily stand up an encrypted wireless network suffers from a design weakness that could enable attackers to gain router access, according to US-CERT.
There is no holiday lull for Microsoft, as the software giant is working to address a potentially dangerous denial-of-service vulnerability impacting its entire .NET Framework. Other vendors may be impacted too.
One day after releasing version 9 of its Firefox web browser, Mozilla on Wednesday issued Firefox 9.0.1 to address an issue that caused Windows, Mac and Linux users' browsers to crash.
Some time ago I was talking with Martin Bos also know as @pure_hate one of the members of the Backtrack Development team and a Pentester and he mentioned that he would love to have a better way of using the psexec module that is already part on the framework in an easier way than using […]
With the holidays right around the corner, expect many workers to soon be returning from their breaks with shiny new personal devices, like an iPad, in hand -- and wanting to connect them to the corporate network. IT departments must have a response plan in place.
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