Threat: A potential cause of an unwanted Incident, which may result in harm to a System or OrganizationVulnerability: A vulnerability is a weakness of an asset or control that could potentially be exploited by one or more threats.Risk: A combination of the probability of an Event and its Consequence Risk Assessment is the total sumContinue reading “Threat, Risk and Vulnerability”
Author Archives: Aayush Goel
What is ISMS,CIA Triad
Information Security Management System (ISMS) Information Security Management System (ISMS) is a management system made of multiple interacting components. What is information? As per ISO/IEC 27000:“Information (knowledge or data) is an asset which, like other important business assets is of value to an organization and consequently needs to be suitably protected”. Information can be: InformationContinue reading “What is ISMS,CIA Triad”
Lab 1: Role Based Access Control
Objective You have been asked to create a proof of concept showing how Azure users and groups are created. Also, how role-based access control is used to assign roles to groups. Specifically, you need to: Step 1: Login to the portal Step 2: Go to Microsoft Entra ID and click on add user Step 3:Continue reading “Lab 1: Role Based Access Control”
Near Field Communication (NFC)
Near Field Communication, or NFC, is a short-range wireless communication technology that enables devices to interact with each other within a close proximity, typically within a few centimeters. It operates at a frequency of 13.56 MHz and can be used for various applications, such as contactless payment systems, secure access control, and data sharing between devicesContinue reading “Near Field Communication (NFC)”
Wazuh
Setting up Wazuh on Virtual Machine (OVA) User: wazuh-user Password: wazuh In our case it will be https://192.168.29.160 You will get the following web page User: admin Password: admin Setting up an agent on the endpoint. Once you login into the wazuh dashboard you can add agents: On clicking Agents option you will get theContinue reading “Wazuh”
Weekly roundup for August 27 to September 2
Notepad++ Flaw Several Buffer Overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in Notepad++ that can be exploited by threat actors for malicious purposes. The severities of these vulnerabilities vary from 5.5 (Medium) to 7.8 (High). Splunk IT Service Intelligence Injection Flaw Splunk has been reported with a Unauthenticated Log injection vulnerability in the Splunk IT Service IntelligenceContinue reading “Weekly roundup for August 27 to September 2”
Weekly roundup for August 20 to 26
SEIKO Data Breach The watch manufacturing company Seiko, targeted by the threat group BlackCat/ALPHV who operates as ransomware as a service. On August 10, the company notified its customers about a data breach after they detected unauthorized access to its server. Cloud Host Lost All Data There has been a cyber attack on two cloudContinue reading “Weekly roundup for August 20 to 26”
HackTheBox – Keeper
User Flag Ater adding the target machine in /etc/hosts we conducted a NMAP scan. While accessing the IP over browser we got the following URL. After adding this URL in the /etc/hosts file we tried to access the URL. We tried to brute force the credentials manually and the following credential set worked. root:password UponContinue reading “HackTheBox – Keeper”
HackTheBox – Photobomb
NMAP Scanning Added address in /etc/hosts and open the web page Upon clicking the link it asks for credentials. As we do not have any credentials I got the page below. I tried to view the source code and found the photobomb.js file. After opening that file I got the credentials. Username: pH0t0 Password: b0Mb!Continue reading “HackTheBox – Photobomb”
HackTheBox – Precious
NMAP Scanning Add website to hosts file: Open the web service This website takes a web page URL and converts it into PDF. On examining the pdf, it shows that it is using pdfkit v0.8.6 version On searching we found vulnerability for mentioned version On studying the POC it looks like the URL parameter isContinue reading “HackTheBox – Precious”
