A very quick post about a new thread which has been started yesterday on the OSS-Security mailing list. It’s about a vulnerability affecting almost ALL SSH server version. Quoted from the initial message; It affects all operating systems, all OpenSSH versions (we went back as far as OpenSSH 2.3.0, released
Waiting for the new year party, this is a last quick post in 2014! It’s not the first time that I see a peak of rogue authentication requests against some of the WordPress websites. But for a while, there is a constant flood of IP addresses trying to bruteforce the WordPress login
A few days weeks ago, I wrote a blog post (link) about a (unsuccessful) WordPress bruteforce attack agains this site. I captured the attackers’ traffic in a big pcap file. It was a good opportunity to perform a quick analysis to try to extract some statistics. Here follow more details
OpenSSH is a common tool for most of network and system administrators. It is used daily to open remote sessions on hosts to perform administrative tasks. But, it is also used to automate tasks between trusted hosts. Based on public/private key pairs, hosts can exchange data or execute commands via
