Catertrax, one of Invicti’ valued clients, have recently provided us with a case study of their use of the scanner and how it helps them to maintain their security and reassure their customers. āInvicti has helped make our application stronger and given our clients the…
Invicti represented at national conference in Portugal
On 9, 10 April Invicti partner RedShift consulting participated in the 1st NATO Cyber Defence Projectsās ConferenceĀ āA Smart Approach to a Smarter Cyber DefenceāĀ in Portugal.Ā The event aimedĀ to enhance and reinforce international cooperation by stimulating the involvement of academia and industry at the NATO and National…
Invicti detects new critical IIS server vulnerability CVE-2015-1635 (MS15-034)
Yesterday was Patch Tuesday ā Microsoft’s monthly rendezvous with all administrators wanting to keep their Microsoft products up to date with all security patches. This was no ordinary Patch Tuesday for web administrators. MS15-034Ā contains a CRITICAL security update for Microsoft IIS which addresses a remote…
Heartbleed still affecting over 70% of top organisations
Despite first being disclosed in April of 2014, it seems that many of the top global organisations are still exposed to the Heartbleed vulnerability. In reports from threat intelligence agencies and the University of Maryland, estimates of susceptibility among the top 2000 global organisations ranges…
Invicti Network Scans Defend against Trojans and Backdoors
The task of keeping the systems running on the network perimeter and all the services exposed on the internet is substantial and ongoing. Considering that most network admins are time-starved, they canāt always be blamed for missing the latest security update for their software. A…
Lessons to Learn from the AllCrypt Hack
On March 18, 2015, AllCrypt, a small crypto currency exchange posted what may very well be one of their last posts on their blog. The Bitcoin exchange had been hacked, resulting in stolen crypto currency. The AllCrypt Team described the attack in detail in their…
Cyber Security and the Data Protection Act
Records management company Iron Mountain have just published a report on public sector agencies, revealing that around 40% have suffered a data breach. It also noted that information security teams are under-resourced, lacking in the required skills or are performing roles above their grade. Considering…
Political hacking – the latest cyber threat
Regardless if you believe North Korea were the culprits or not, everyone will acknowledge that since the Sony hack, weāve all started to take cyber terrorism a little more seriously. You mean they donāt just want financial details and government intelligence? No, thatās right, terrorists…
Troubleshooting tips for Apache, Part 4 – Run Apache HTTP Server as a single process
Run Apache HTTP Server as a single process and use debugging tools A typical Apache HTTP Server installation runs with several processes. However, to simplify troubleshooting itās best to run Apache as a single process. This can be done by using the X option when…