The art of responding to incidents in an organized and thoughtful manner.
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Responsible Disclosures and Getting Sued
Lots of websites like Google, Facebook etc acknowledge the white hat hackers on their sites for reporting security vulnerability. But for the vulnerability reporter is it safe from legal perspective ? ...
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Quick Security Mitigations to Impending attacks
Suppose you are the sysadmin, and you know of an impending attack that just started or about to start soon. You can either wait it out, or try a few tricks and quick mitigation to fend off attackers ...
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My website has been hacked, what do i do next? [closed]
So. I couldn't see any other question like this on Sec.Se so i thought i'd ask.
My public website www.foo.com has been hacked. The front page is sending it to be redirected to seoblog.fooblog.com in ...
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How to know what's the type of an attack and from whom is sent?
I'm currently running a game server on a dedicated Windows 7 machine and it is being attacked.
How do I know what kind of attack it is and from whom is sent?
When he attacks, the RDP freezes and the ...
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Is it advisable to fully record terminal interaction for incident response?
We are going to be using a jump box to serve as an SSH bridge to our production systems. Assuming that operators are actually logging in to a shell on the jump box and assuming that it is possible to ...
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Compromised server with psyBNC - what are our next steps?
One of our VPS servers has an install of psybnc on it. The install has been present for quite some time, and has now been brought to our attention. We have backups, but they also have psybnc on them. ...
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What are the most relevant security events/incidents any company should monitor?
What are the most relevant security events/incidents any company should monitor using event management tools? Related to servers, antivirus, networks, etc.
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Incident database? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Resources for data on security incidents
Do you know any websites where they put Information about Security Incidents that happened to organizations/people (e.g. ...
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Unexplained downloading
I was just watching as my bandwidth monitor spiked downloading a file. I checked my current netstat and I didn't recognize one of the IPs so I started capturing the data with Wireshark.
The ...
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IR Jump Bag - What kind of bag/container to use?
I am working on putting together an Incident Response Jump Bag (detailed here).
Any suggestions on what type of container/bag to use for this? It seems like a lot of little items that could be ...
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Penetration testing job entry exam [closed]
What type of hands on tests should I expect in a interview for a entry level penetration tester?
And what do examiners expect a candidate to accomplish (i.e. full compromise)?
The reason I ask is ...
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If my server was compromised, is my database safe?
I have an AWS instance running a rails app that I don't actively maintain. Since I didn't keep track of what was going on with this app, I didn't update it promptly when all the rails vulnerabilities ...
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Wireless Adapters for Testing with BackTrack
I would like to begin testing and working with BackTrack. I have heard that the Alfa AWUS036H wireless adapter works well with BackTrack and allows for packet injection. This adapter, however, is ...
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System image that does not allow for recovery of deleted files?
We are working with an contractor regarding a compromised computer. The contractor has asked for a dd dump of the drive. However, my understanding is that dd would allow the contractor to recover ...
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Is there a Snort rule that equates to “something suspicious flagged from a client side application?”
The reasoning is what if an enterprise monitors snort alerts more-so than say syslog. Is there a specific pre-defined alert for 'client side app says something fishy is going on'?
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Where can I obtain publicly available data about security attacks in Asia and Pacific? [closed]
I am trying to run an analysis of trends of security attacks with respect to world events (i.e. oil price hike induces an increased amount of attacks on oil companies).
The scope of my project is ...
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Handler's log solution for incident response [closed]
I am looking for a incident response handler's log solution that would scale well to record up to 1000 incidents/yr.
What do people use? Any good templates out there? Any software, preferably open ...
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How to decode this runforestrun gootkit [closed]
Infected site is hxxp://www.infraredpsi.com/Pluginlab/Scripts/menuscript.js
online scan result:
http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=141893
I can de-obfuscate the first layer of the code that use the ...
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What is the future of SOC? [closed]
Hi can anyone says working in security operation center (incident response) would be challenging and career growth. i am currently working in application security domain. comparing app security vs soc ...
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Extremely suspicious phone call — what to do? [closed]
Two days ago, I received a call. Someone with a female, possibly asian voice asked "are you using your computer in internet right now." I said "yes", then asked "who are you?". At this point, they ...
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Why bother with attack detection?
The question below goes from a wrong assumption that attacker is able to spoof IP when making HTTP connection. But attacker isn't able to spoof IP if he doesn't have direct access to connection ...
