Prove you are a human. If you think about that sentence for too long, you realise it’s actually incredibly complex and can bring about a sense of existential angst. Yet, it’s something that is demanded of us on a near daily basis, sometimes more. It turns out, proving our humanity doesn’t require showing the capacity to love, or even passing Blade Runner’s Voight-Kampff test. Rather, we just need to be able to click on pictures of cars or shop fronts.
Empire is an open source post-exploitation framework that acts as a capable backdoor on infected systems. It provides a management platform for infected machines. Empire can deploy PowerShell and Python agents to infect both Windows and Linux systems.
Developers the world over depend on the Apache Struts open source framework to build valuable and powerful applications. This open source component and the Apache Software Foundation that stands behind it have provided organizations with a cost-effective force multiplier that allows their teams to develop faster and more efficiently. A very active project, GitHub shows Apache Struts as having 5,441 commits and 112 releases.
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. Some very exciting news, well I say exciting, its more like we’ve made a step forward in regards to IoT security at long last. Hopefully more will come on board and in time others will see the benefit.
So what exactly is Infrastructure Modernization? “Infrastructure Modernization” is fast becoming the new buzz-term in business IT, but since it was coined there’s been some questions as to what it really means, why it’s becoming increasingly important, and what can be done to address the challenges it raises.
