This Week in Security: Password Sanity, Tank Hacking, And The Mystery 9.9

It looks like there’s finally hope for sane password policies. The US National Institue of Standards and Technology, NIST, has released a draft of SP 800-63-4, the Digital Identity Guideline. …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Password Sanity, Tank Hacking, And The Mystery 9.9

This Week in Security: Open Source C2, Raptor Trains, and End to End Encryption

Open Source has sort of eaten everything in software these days. And that includes malware, apparently, with open source Command and Control (C2) frameworks like Sliver and Havoc gaining traction. …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Open Source C2, Raptor Trains, and End to End Encryption

This Week in Security: The Rest of the IPv6 Story, CVE Hunting, and Hacking the TSA

We finally have some answers about the Windows IPv6 vulnerability — and a Proof of Concept! The patch was a single change in the Windows TCP/IP driver’s Ipv6pProcessOptions(), now calling …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: The Rest of the IPv6 Story, CVE Hunting, and Hacking the TSA

This Week in Security: Three Billion SS Numbers, IPv6 RCE, and Ring -2

You may have heard about a very large data breach, exposing the Social Security numbers of three billion individuals. Now hang on. Social Security numbers are a particularly American data …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Three Billion SS Numbers, IPv6 RCE, and Ring -2