Computer and software industry maker HP is in the process of notifying customers about a seemingly harmless security incident in 2010 that nevertheless could prove expensive for the company to fix and present unique support problems for users of its older products. Earlier this week, HP quietly produced several client advisories stating that on Oct. 21, 2014 it plans to revoke a digital certificate the company previously used to cryptographically sign software components that ship with many of its older products.
Track Down Active Directory Attack Attempts
There is nothing scarier to an Active Directory administrator than the thought of someone attacking the domain controllers. The majority of attacks come from within the internal network and come from existing domain users.
Shell-shocked by shell shock? I give you “CMD Caret” ^&
There seems to have been so much hype over the recent bash bug, shell shock! And there were all the people in the Microsoft world thinking YES we are so cool we are NOT affected by it! Yea right I knew it, there had to be something much the same as the bash bug available in CMD.exe It affects the Windows CMD.exe Shell and I will provide a working example of how it can be exploited. It does show the whole hype of the bash bug bearing in mind you need access to the machines shell in the first place