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The HTTPS everywhere extension only covers the browser. Other applications might be vulnerable. If he controls the network, he could hijack your DNS and intercept all other connections. He could also use a downgrade attack to force an insecure version of TLS and compromise that. But that’s extremely unlikely, unless he’s either a skilled attacker or can use tools like metasploit.
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You’re pretty well on the right track. It might help if I explain what the attack is doing more. So an attacker starting out knows nothing about you or even where you are. So they need to figure these things out. The most optimal way to do this is by scanning everything and I do mean everything. There are automated scans that get information on literally everything that is open on the web. An unconfigured device that’s capable of ssh can get hit with login attempts after just 30 seconds of being plugged in. So first they try to find someone and let’s say by random they get you, they don’t know who you are yet but they have an IP now. First they run scans to see what’s available, what services are internet capable and talking to anyone who asks. Once they know what services they will do banner grabbing to try to find out specifics about the service like version number. Once they have this information they can dig for more or look for vulnerabilities specific to that service and version. Metasploit will actually tell you which attacks work for the version numbers you’ve discovered, pretty handy. If they decide to proceed they send the correct exploit to you computer and bam they’re in to do whatever. If you’re running something out of date there are usually vulnerabilities that just will allow access to attackers, this is why updating is important. Security through obscurity first relies on not being seen in the first place whether through not connecting to much or being something no one cares about hacking in the first place. Second it relies on being uncommon enough to not have a bunch of known vulnerabilities. A random GitHub program with 10k downloads is going to have a lot less known vulnerabilities than Microsoft office. Third it relies on being so little known that even if someone can figure out how to hack in they won’t know what to do. Imagine trying to find important documents on someone’s heavily customized Linux box as opposed to a Windows box. Tldr: security through obscurity is first hoping you don’t get seen then hoping if you are seen that they don’t care. It’s not good security but it might work.
Metasploit, hack the NSA!
A company can essentially admit to making an open-to-the-public cyberweapon and there’s nothing more than a vague press release and a few news articles on it. Citation needed. Automating metasploit shouldn’t be headline grabbing news and it sounds like you know better.
Metasploit becomes your “decompiler”.
Most of the time, yes. It has a relation with the impact. I’m referring to activity on social networks such as Mastodon and Bluesky, but also to other sources like Nuclei templates, Metasploit modules, and the Shadowserver Honeypot dataset. We rely on different types of sightings. It’s not just about “mentions.” The sightings used in the reports are from different sources: https://www.vulnerability-lookup.org/tools/#sightings Regarding social network mentions, especially on platforms like Bluesky, I was quite skeptical at first since there’s a lot of noise. Lot of people are simply ranting. I changed my mind on this. Honestly, most of the time when we observe a spike in activity shortly after — or even before — the publication of an advisory, it turns out to be a severe vulnerability. Or something we have to look at. We discussed this topic in our paper presented in Berlin: https://www.vulnerability-lookup.org/events/#first-cyber-threat-intelligence-conference , and more recently, we explored its connection with forecasting and automated classification techniques in our paper “VLAI: A RoBERTa-Based Model for Automated Vulnerability Severity Classification.”
I want to go into a career in networking and maybe some scripting/programming. Maybe over the winter break I’ll use one old laptop we have for a tiny cybersecurity home lab. I’ll put Metasploitable on it and open it up to my home network and go at it with my main Linux box. Is that what you meant by selfhosting and homelabbing? I did learn Python by doing some tinkering with discord.py, similarly to what you were saying about Rust. That was pretty simple; I get the feeling that Python was designed to be learned. I’m glad I learned that in high school. For taking hardware apart, my family does have an ancient Apple laptop no one uses anymore, but I heard Apple makes it a huge pain to get into those. What about old Android smartphones? Are those dissectable and fixable like old consoles would’ve been?
You’re looking at my worst nightmare 😅 I would download metasploit and dig up some interesting exploits to try against it.
Thank you! I believe both titles are abs((float)$incredible)/INF… The story, characters, references, technical features, or every single bit and algorithm is perfect… Not to mention upgraded kernels and shells, including drones and 'dgets! Yet it all may not match the “good” you are searching for at this particular moment, or would it? How could we know! Both titles were developed by different genius teams even, the former is Ubisoft Monreal, the latter - Ubisoft Toronto! I.e. Even if MetaSploit and not Snyk’s or PortSwigger’s but FOSS is there… you may still find that the payload in all the exploits the solution provides you with, written by OSINT or more hopefully red… authors on the wires, is indeed a required parameter to be set upon execution/injection by you, the main host in the network! 🦋 How to not find Watch_Dogs 2 and Watch_Dogs Legion both very different and ineffably marvelous… I uploaded a few screenshots found in some remote backups: - Watch_Dogs 2: https://imgur.com/a/GZ7F88U; - Watch_Dogs Legion: https://imgur.com/a/U07Yfch (Wrench is there, too, with Aiden!); 👻 Being bored and hateful is a choice. It all depends on what you are searching for, doesn’t it ^^ That is so… meta! ~ Wrench ✨
I’m still at university and we had one course on it sec, but those were my only option to ehance my skills in this field. I fiddled around with ctfs a little and tried to learn some stuff with metasploit. But i feel like the learning curve is very steep, also because it’s such a broad field. I’m currently studying electrical engineering and information technology. I have some skills in programming, embedded, some webdev stuff and some SQL. What would you say is an easie field to get started in? Some friends of mine are at the same point right now, their skills arenmore limited though. Thanks in advance :)