The Remote Desktop Protocol Vulnerability – ‘CVE-2012-0002’ is not dead yet!

On March 13, 2012, Microsoft disclosed the details of a ‘critical vulnerability’ called Remote Desktop Protocol Vulnerability – CVE-2012-0002 in its bulletin. And even four years after this vulnerability was patched, it is still being exploited in the wild by attackers to carry out ‘Remote Code Execution’ on their victims computers. Affected Operating Systems: Microsoft […]

How does a hacker crack encrypted password databases?

We recently published a post about the inherent dangers of passwords and how they are increasingly vulnerable thanks to user negligence. With so much data being safeguarded by elemental passwords, the need for a refined security layer is imperative. However, a common question we received was about how attackers actually store and share compromised passwords […]