pktrecon, Kory Findley – Paul’s Security Weekly #589

    Kory Findley talks about his Github project pktrecon. Internal network segment reconnaissance using packets captured from broadcast and service discovery protocol traffic. pktrecon is a tool for internal network segment reconnaissance using broadca… Continue reading pktrecon, Kory Findley – Paul’s Security Weekly #589

IPv6 Christmas Display Uses 75 Internet’s Worth of Addresses

We’ve seen internet-enabled holiday displays before, and we know IPv6 offers much more space than the older IPv4 addressing scheme that most of us still use today, but the two have never been more spectacularly demonstrated than at jinglepings.com. The live video stream shows an Internet-connected Christmas tree and an LED display wall that you can control by sending IPv6 ICMP echo request messages, more commonly known as pings.

Reading the page, you quickly parse the fact that there are three ways to control the tree. First, you can type a message in the box and press send – this …read more

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IPv6 Will Bring Security Threats: What You Need to Know to be Prepared

It is no secret that the proliferation of connected devices has exhausted IPv4 addresses. This was first forecasted and examined in the 1980s, and has been in the process of being fulfilled since 2011. As of September 2015, North America exhausted its … Continue reading IPv6 Will Bring Security Threats: What You Need to Know to be Prepared