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Is there a legitimate reason why 100K+ of data would be sent/received in NTP requests? [on hold]

Posted on January 5, 2018 by Ivan

I’m looking at some network activity and noticing a lot of supposed NTP traffic sending payloads of 100K+ bytes of data and receiving the same amount right back.

Representative sample of a larger payload:

192.168.x.x 123… Continue reading Is there a legitimate reason why 100K+ of data would be sent/received in NTP requests? [on hold]→

Posted in ntp

Is it secure to return JWT in a cookie?

Posted on August 27, 2017 by Ivan

I would like to implement the following authentication/authorization system for a website I am working on:

Support authentication via social network (e.g. Facebook)
Use JWT for authorization

So far I saw that JWT is usual… Continue reading Is it secure to return JWT in a cookie?→

Posted in cookies, JWT, OAuth

How to find all the microphones in a room?

Posted on August 20, 2017 by Ivan

“Smart” devices are all around us nowadays and many of them have built-in mics which can be be misused to spy on you in cases when the device is hacked (which is rather probable to happen as there are countless and growing vu… Continue reading How to find all the microphones in a room?→

Posted in Hardware, privacy, smart tv, surveillance | Tagged Audio

Are there any good OSINT feeds related to phone phishing?

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Ivan

There are lots of feeds related to fraudulent and malicious domains and IPs, but we’re seeing more and more social engineering attempts coming in via phone.

When these are reported to us, I’d like to document the phone numbe… Continue reading Are there any good OSINT feeds related to phone phishing?→

Posted in blacklist, Phishing, phone, Social Engineering

Help me identify the hash type of Acronis True image [on hold]

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Ivan

Please help me identify this Hash Code.

xh/jPO8NNCde71oQLxFgHNj1MOs3zDj9SipRknT7/jkmaA==

Continue reading Help me identify the hash type of Acronis True image [on hold]→

Posted in hash

What type of encoding/encryption has been used for symbols? One symbol is encoded as 7-8 numbers [duplicate]

Posted on March 13, 2017 by Ivan

This question already has an answer here:

How to determine what type of encoding/encryption has been used?

8 answers

Ther… Continue reading What type of encoding/encryption has been used for symbols? One symbol is encoded as 7-8 numbers [duplicate]→

Posted in Cryptography, encryption

How to protect a legacy Android smartphone from new exploits?

Posted on March 9, 2017 by Ivan

My Android smartphone is many years old though still satisfies more than absolutely, I really don’t want to change it for a new one. The vendor, however, doesn’t seem to issue updates any more. Besides installing fresh Cyanog… Continue reading How to protect a legacy Android smartphone from new exploits?→

Posted in Android, linux, Mobile, Vulnerability

Traffic not passing trough OpenVPN Connect on Android

Posted on August 3, 2016 by Ivan

I am trying to use OpenVPN Connect (the official OpenVPN app) on Android.

I import the profile and everything seems to be correct until I notice that traffic is not passing trough the VPN. The status is displayed as connect… Continue reading Traffic not passing trough OpenVPN Connect on Android→

Posted in Android, OpenVPN

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