Nessus is a remote security scanning penetration testing tool, which scans a computer and raises an alert if it discovers any vulnerabilities that malicious hackers could use to gain access to any computer you have connected to a network. It does this by running over multiple open checks or fixed …
Security
Increasing Windows RDP security without a CA
For windows 7 and above the built in Remote Desktop access for support uses a self-signed certificate that makes use of the now deprecated SHA1. If you delete the certificate and reboot, or start/stop the RDP service, the self-signed certificate gets auto recreated with the same SHA1 and so far I …
Code EOL Review
Code End Of Life (EOL) is often not factored in during purchases. Updating software and firmware is an essential part of most compliance standards and makes good security policy sense anyway. Cyber Essentials requires that software: be patched within 14 days of an update being released, where the …