Security and Privacy Are Not As Different As People Think

Description : A realistic Boot2Root. Gain access to the system and read the /root/flag.txt Note : Only works in VMware Network : NAT/DHCP Questions :  @bhansawan File : OVF Difficulty to get entry : easy/intermediate Difficulty to get root : intermediate/hard The SCIIT's Server has just been attacked, the IT staff have taken down their windows server and are now setting up a Linux server running Debian. Could there a few weak points in the new unfinished server? Hints: Remember to look for hidden info/files** DOWNLOAD LINK : 

WHAT IS PRIVILEGE ESCALATION? Privilege escalation is the act of exploiting a bug, design flaw or configuration oversight in an OS or application to achieve an higher access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user. The result could lead to unauthorized actions. OBJECTIVE In this blog, we will talk in detail as what security issues could lead to a successful privilege escalation attack on any Linux based systems. Linux Permission Model Linux has inbred from UNIX the concept of ownership and permissions of files . File permissions are used to protect systems against malicious tampering. 1.       In the above two screenshots, we can see that the file ‘p.txt’ only has read & write access by the owner ‘ root’ . 2.       We can see the permission denied error when I tried reading the file when I tried to access as “ sawan ”. Security Professionals usually perform Privil...

WHY IS CYBER SECURITY IMPORTANT? Cyber Security is important because without any understanding or consideration of the issue you are waiting to be attacked. It may not happen now, or next week, but eventually you will be breached and you will have to deal with the fallout. In fact, in the last few years, cyber crime has grown at such a rapid rate it is now an issue all businesses should constantly be monitoring and managing. The latest “Cost of data breach study: Australia”, by IBM and the Ponemon Institute, concluded that in 2014 the likelihood of an Australian company or organisation experiencing a data breach involving at least 10,000 records had increased to 18 per cent over a 24 month period – that is, nearly one in five Australian companies or organisations will experience a serious data breach in the next two years. And this breach rate continues to grow. The problem is also growing rapidly in other Asia-Pacific nations. The Australian Institute of Criminology ...

Backdoorme - BACKDOOR EXPLOIT FOR HACKERS Tools like metasploit are great for exploiting computers, but what happens after you've gained access to a computer? Backdoorme answers that question by unleashing a slew of backdoors to establish persistence over long periods of time. Once an SSH connection has been established with the target, Backdoorme's strengths can come to fruition. Unfortunately, Backdoorme is not a tool to gain root access - only keep that access once it has been gained. Please only use Backdoorme with explicit permission - please don't hack without asking. Usage Backdoorme is split into two parts: backdoors and modules. Backdoors are small snippets of code which listen on a port and redirect to an interpreter, like bash. There are many backdoors written in various languages to give variety. Modules make the backdoors more potent by running them more often, for example, every few minutes or whenever the computer boots. This ...

How did this happen? Frame a plot/solution via a story (A video/Write-up). The winner would win a 32 GB persistent bootable KALI LINUX OS. Submit the You-tube video link/ Write-up @ hackin2minutes@gmail.com Winner will be announced  LIVE on my you-tube  channel  CYBER WIZARD                                                         Subscribe my Youtube channel :  CYBER WIZARD                                                              Story Professional, coordinated attackers with a plan, breached a server maintained by  Anonym University and walked off with nearly 800,000 records,...

“Security and Privacy Are Not As Different As People Think”                       How we're dramatizing a distinction that serves no purpose,                            And introducing unneeded complexity in the process. S.B There’s a common belief in InfoSec community that Security and Privacy are related, but that they’re different enough to constantly mention the distinction. I don’t think the difference should matter much to defenders, and in fact, if you look close enough the distinction nearly vanishes. They are simply different aspects of the unified goal of protecting information. Security and Privacy are both about preventing unwanted outcomes related to data. As a society and as consumers we care about controlling who has our information, and ...