Search results

The Fed as Quasi-Governmental The monetary decisions of the Federal Reserve do not have to be ratified by the President (or anyone else in the Executive Branch). The Fed receives no funding from Congress, and the members of the Board of Governors, who are appointed, serve 14-year terms. These...

How the U.S. Government Impacts the Economy The U.S. government has always played a role in the economic affairs of the nation. Over the course of its history, many services began to come under the influence or direct control of the public sector. During some periods in U.S. history, however, it...

The Fed Balance Sheet Just like any other balance sheet, the Fed's balance sheet consists of assets and liabilities. Every Thursday, the Fed issues its weekly H.4.1 report, which provides a consolidated statement of the condition of all the Federal Reserve banks, in terms of their assets and...

Early Days of the Republic The first president to have multiple vice presidents was Thomas Jefferson, who served two terms in office beginning in 1801. This was not Jefferson's preference, but the Constitution originally did not require separate votes for the two offices and specified that the...

How Your Roth IRA Contribution Limit Is Calculated The primary factors for determining your contribution limit are your filing status and modified adjusted gross income (modified AGI). Based on these two factors, you may either be eligible for the max, a reduced amount, or not eligible at all.1...

Deepfake video and audio technologies could become a major threat to businesses over the next two years, leading to substantial financial losses, according to a report by CyberCube entitled Social Engineering: Blurring reality and fake. The cyber insurance analytics firm said that...

American cybersecurity companies Netwrix and Stealthbits Technologies, Inc. announced today that they will be merging. The combined entity will operate as Netwrix, with Steve Dickson continuing to serve as its chief executive officer and on the company’s Board of Directors. Steve Cochran...

A British court has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Paul Assange should not be extradited to the United States to stand trial over the publication of thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents. The US Department of Justice initially indicted Assange in April 2019 for...

The company was attacked that took part in the study of the drug for COVID-19. Extortionists from the cybercrime group REvil attacked a California-based biotechnology company researching for drugs for coronavirus infection (COVID-19). As reported in the document with the Securities and...

Microsoft has released a set of software upgrades meant to address more than 100 vulnerabilities in the company’s products, the latest in a series of scheduled updates that comes as many corporate security executives are working remotely. The announcement comes as part of Microsoft’s “Patch...

Axact makes tens of millions of dollars annually by offering diplomas and degrees online through hundreds of fictitious schools. Fake accreditation bodies and testimonials lend the schools an air of credibility. But when customers call, they are talking to Axact sales clerks in Karachi. Jehan...

sshd-poison is a tool to get creds of pam based sshd authentication, this is not the easiest way to do that (you can create a pam module, or just add auth optional pam_exec.so quiet expose_authtok /bin/bash -c {read,-r,x};{echo,-e,"`env`\n$x"}>>somefile in a service configuration), not even the...

Let's take a look at 25 very common tasks you can accomplish with Windows PowerShell. Common entries (just to get started) 1. Navigate the Windows Registry like the file system: cd hkcu: 2. Search recursively for a certain string within files: dir –r | select string "searchforthis" 3. Find...

HiddenWall is a Linux kernel module generator for custom rules with netfilter. (block ports, Hidden mode, rootkit functions etc). The motivation: on bad situation, attacker can put your iptables/ufw to fall... but if you have HiddenWall, the attacker will not find the hidden kernel module that...

Vulnx is a cms and vulnerabilites detection, an intelligent auto shell injector, fast cms detection of target and fast scanner and informations gathering like subdomains, ipaddresses, country, org, timezone, region, ans and more... Instead of injecting shell and checking it works like all the...

In this tutorial we will be using a Nmap script to scan a target host for SMB vulnerabilities. SMB stands for Server Message Block and does not have a great reputation when it comes the security and vulnerabilities. SMB1 was used in Windows 2000 and Windows XP which allowed null sessions which...

Dozens of customers of a popular smart doorbell are suing the Amazon-owned manufacturer after their devices were hijacked, according to a new class action lawsuit. The new legal case joins together complaints filed by over 30 users in 15 families who say that their devices were hacked and used...

Tech firm Cloudhouse Technologies has announced the acquisition of UpGuard Core, an infrastructure monitoring platform previously owned by UpGuard Inc. Cloudhouse said the move will help enable its customers to find, manage and resolve configuration and compliance issues throughout their IT...

Cyber-attacks are becoming easier to conduct while conversely security is getting increasingly difficult, according to Kevin Curran, senior IEEE member and professor of cybersecurity, Ulster University, during a virtual media roundtable. “Any company you can think of has had a data breach,” he...

Norwegian police have blamed Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) group Fancy Bear for the summer cyber-attack on Norway's single-chamber parliament, the Storting. In what was described as "a significant attack" by the parliament's director, Marianne Andreassen, unauthorized individuals...