Most breaches don’t start with malware or zero-day exploits. They start with a login.  An attacker gets hold of a password, maybe through phishing, reuse, or a leaked credential dump. They test it ...

Most IT pros realize that using Telnet to manage routers, switches, and firewalls is insecure. Transmitted in clear text across a network, Telnet traffic basically publicizes any login usernames and ...

1 - If I have forwarded only the ssh port from my firewall to a machine set up as a ssh server (rsa login only, ssh only for people in a group, no root login) is it a security risk to have other ...

A look at SSH Tectia, a suite of SSH products supported under Linux, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX and Windows. Last week we began slicing and dicing a protocol called Secure Shell, which not only provides safe ...

Sometime around the start of 1995, an unknown person planted a password sniffer on the network backbone of Finland’s Helsinki University of Technology (now known as Aalto University). Once in place, ...

Researchers have published details about a new attack method that exploits a vulnerability in the Secure Socket Shell or SSH networking protocol that raises concerns about the security of data ...

Once upon a time, there were only Unix machines on the Internet. No, really, you could look as hard as you liked and all you would find were *nixen from wall to wall. Anyway, in those far-off days, we ...

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A threat actor is using an open-source network mapping tool named SSH-Snake to look for private keys undetected and move laterally on the victim infrastructure. SSH-Snake was discovered by the Sysdig ...

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