March 2016 – Abraxas.io

Don’t DROWN! – Avoiding the TLS/SSL vulnerability

Published March 4, 2016

Don’t DROWN! – Avoiding the TLS/SSL vulnerability

What is it? DROWN (Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption) is a recently discovered (March 2016) vulnerability in SSL/TLS which can allow attackers to break the security SSL and TLS are supposed to provide and acquire the newly decrypted data. The flaw exploits servers which still support encryption services…

PS-Tip #2 – Windows Remote System Uptime

In this post I’ll cover a Python and PowerShell script I wrote for a tool which had a function of obtaining the uptime of a remote machine. I’ll start by posting the script, in full, here: import os import subprocess def ps_remote_system_uptime(): remote_target = raw_input(“Which system do you want the…

PS-Tip #1 – Remote DNS Cache Clearing

PS-Tips are a series of shorter posts which introduce and explain short PowerShell snippets that may help to automate some tasks. There are a requirements to run remote PowerShell commands and I’ll cover the details of setting the prerequisites in a later post. The process for getting setup isn’t too difficult so…

Month: March 2016

Don’t DROWN! – Avoiding the TLS/SSL vulnerability

PS-Tip #2 – Windows Remote System Uptime

PS-Tip #1 – Remote DNS Cache Clearing