Author: HackWatchit

Wi-Fi is everywhere. Whether you travel for business or simply need Internet access while out and about, your options are plentiful. You can sign on at airports, hotels, coffee shops, fast food restaurants, and now, even airplanes. Wi-Fi wasn’t born to be secure; it was born to be convenient. Wireless networks broadcast messages using radio and are therefore more susceptible to eavesdropping than wired networks. Today, with criminal hackers as sophisticated as ever, if you are using an open unsecured network on your mobile device, you risk exposing your data. There are many ways for hackers to see who’s connected…

Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon, according to four people familiar with recent US intelligence on the issue and a document reviewed by CNN. The intelligence indicates that foreign adversaries are eager to exploit the Trump administration’s efforts to conduct mass layoffs across the federal workforce – a plan laid out by the Office of Personnel Management earlier this week. Russia and China are focusing their efforts on recently fired…

As organizations accelerate their release cycles and rely on complex software ecosystems, security vulnerabilities become harder to track—and easier for attackers to exploit. From open-source dependencies to misconfigurations in production, security gaps can lead to data breaches, compliance failures, and costly downtime. In fact, 59% of security professionals report that today’s attack surfaces have become unmanageable, with Generative AI and code security emerging as key blind spots. This growing complexity makes application and software security testing more critical than ever, requiring organizations to implement a proactive, layered approach. This guide will break down the most critical types of application and software security…

The momentum has shifted in the yearslong battle between top crypto companies and protocols and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the new Trump administration. The regulator, which now has a crypto task force led by longtime industry advocate Hester Peirce, is moving away from what Pierce and others have called “regulation by enforcement” to less hostile engagements with crypto. Thus far, those words have rung true with the SEC recently backing away from fights with multiple top crypto companies. Here are the SEC’s biggest pivots, reversals, and exits so far under Trump.BinanceFollowing a joint request, a U.S. district judge granted…

15 Aug 2023 Podcasts 🔵Join us for the Antisyphon Blue Team Summit! https://www.antisyphontraining.com/training/blue-team/2023/06/blue-team-summit-coming-in-august-2023/ Blue Team Summit Coming in August 2023! – Antisyphon Training Wrangling the M365 UAL with PowerShell and SOF-ELK (Part 1 of 3) Talkin’ About Infosec News – 8/14/2023 Looking For Something?Browse by category Select Category Alyssa Snow  (7) Ashley Knowles  (1) Ashley Van Hoesen  (1) Author  (402) Backdoors & Breaches  (7) Beau Bullock  (32) Ben Bowman  (1) Ben Burkhart  (1) Blue Team  (101) Blue Team Tools  (40) Brian Fehrman  (18) Brian Ireland  (1) Brian King  (20) Bronwen Aker  (1) C2  (29) Cameron Cartier  (2) Carrie Roberts  (5) Chris Traynor  (2) CJ Cox  (8) Connor Costigan  (1) Corey Ham  (3) Craig Vincent  (2) Dale Hobbs  (3) Daniel Pizarro  (1) Darin Roberts  (1) Dave…

Ever take a look at an ATM and feel like something’s off? You might have come across an ATM skimmer. It works like this… A crook tampers with an ATM by attaching a physical device that skims card info as cards people grab or deposit money. From there, a keypad overlay or tiny pinhole camera captures your PIN as people tap it in. And with that info, the crook has everything they need to create several counterfeit cards. Of course, that thief has to transfer that info. In some cases, the thief creeps back, removes the skimming device, downloads your…

The core aim of Business Continuity Planning is to ensure that an organisation can continue to deliver its products and services, minimise downtime and recover swiftly when faced with disruption. There is a fundamental question, often posed when organisations begin: “should I plan for scenarios or impacts?” For example, should we have a plan for fire, flood, terrorist event and gas leak? Or should we instead plan for shared impacts such as the loss of premises? The simple answer is that the only practical solution is to plan for impacts, not scenarios. The longer answer is that scenarios also have…

SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 35  |  Security Affairs newsletter Round 513 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION  |  Meta fired 20 employees for leaking information, more firings expected  |  Ransomware gangs exploit a Paragon Partition Manager BioNTdrv.sys driver zero-day  |  Microsoft disrupted a global cybercrime ring abusing Azure OpenAI Service  |  Attackers could hack smart solar systems and cause serious damages  |  Enhanced capabilities sustain the rapid growth of Vo1d botnet  |  Cisco fixed command injection and DoS flaws in Nexus switches  |  China-linked threat actors stole 10% of Belgian State Security Service (VSSE)’s staff emails  |  FBI: North…

Judge upholds ban on DOGE accessing sensitive Treasury information, for now Judge Vargas issued a preliminary injunction but said she may lift the ban if Treasury certifies that DOGE members have received cybersecurity training. The Associated Press February 21, 2025 7:46 pm < a min read NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge in Manhattan on Friday extended a ban on Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency accessing sensitive Treasury Department information, but rejected broader restrictions sought by 19 Democratic state attorneys general who sued over the issue. Judge Jeannette A. Vargas issued a preliminary injunction but said she may…