SNMP – basic facts

SNMP stands for Simple Network Management Protocol and is a standard protocol for collecting and organizing information about managed devices on IP networks and for modifying that information to change device behavior. Typical devices include routers, switches, servers, workstations, printers and modem racks. This protocol exposes system configuration information in the form of variables on the managed devices. These variables can be

Watering Hole Attack

From time to time the media reports on “huge” hacker campaigns targeting specific companies. Often a buzz word comes up naming the attack strategy – they were hit by a Watering Hole Attack.  No further mentions of what it means was ever given. The term Watering Hole Attack means to start an attack against a target by

eZ Publish – determine version, heartbeat and copyright

ez Publish provides us with a module called “ezinfo” which we can utilize to get important information about the running system. Amongst the information we can extract from this module is: eZ Publish version which modules installed if the system is able to communicate with the back-end copyright Please note that “ezinfo” does not interface

Cascading MySQL mishap

A couple days ago I was doing some routine cleanup on a remote hosted site. I have paid access to this server and was working with the MySQL CLI tool. Both username and password is intricate. Just for the hell of it I tried one silly thing – connecting to the server using stock credentials.