Use a USB dongle to emulate a nic and get credentials from locked windows machines

If I plug in a device that masquerades as a USB Ethernet adapter and has a computer on the other end, can I capture credentials from a system, even when locked out (yes, logged in, just locked). (..or do even more, but we’ll save that for another time, this post is already too long) Source: Read more about Use a USB dongle to emulate a nic and get credentials from locked windows machines[…]

When you’ve paid the ransom but you don’t get your data back

One in five firms that pay ransom fail to get their data back, according to new research from Trend Micro. A poll of IT managers at 300 UK businesses sponsored by Trend Micro found that 44 per cent of UK businesses have been infected by ransomware in the last two years. The study also found Read more about When you’ve paid the ransom but you don’t get your data back[…]

Using known private keys on internet connected devices has gone up 40% since 2015

To accomplish the mammoth task of informing about 50 different vendors and various ISPs we teamed up with CERT/CC (VU#566724). We would really like to report that our efforts were successful, but as it turns out the number of devices on the web using known private keys for HTTPS server certificates has gone up by Read more about Using known private keys on internet connected devices has gone up 40% since 2015[…]