Browsing Monthly Archive April 2011

An introduction to Bash Scripting for automating some nmap recon

This is a brief intro to automating recon through bash scripting. This example uses nmap scans that we’re automating.  We teach this and much more

April 30, 2011 Hacking

Man In The Middle – Demystified

This is a complete demo of MitM Incoming search terms: infosec mitm tutorial iphone penetration testing man in the middle resource infosecinstitute com/man in the

April 30, 2011 Hacking

Information security at home.

There seems to be a large disconnect between what the average home user knows about security and what people are expected to know at work.

April 29, 2011 General Security

Interview

Our first Interview is coming soon. Subscribe to the newsletter or RSS to be alerted of all new articles and interviews as they’re posted to

April 29, 2011 Interviews

The Biggest Gap in Information Security is…?

As a person who’s committed to helping raise awareness in the security community as a whole, I’ve often found myself asking this question. While there

April 28, 2011 General Security

DOS Commands

tree > directory.txt  (creates a directory tree of the current directory in a text file named directory.txt) tree /F > directory.txt  (creates a directory tree plus all

April 28, 2011 Other

Helix Mounting

umount /media/sda1 This makes sure that the drive is unmounted. It may generate an error if the drive is not mounted, but that is ok.

April 28, 2011 Forensics

CISM Domain – Information Risk Management

CISM Chapter 2 – Information Risk Management (IRM) IRM accounts for 22 percent of the CISM exam or about 44 questions.  In 2010, ISACA reorganized

April 28, 2011 CISM, IT Certifications

Grep Essentials

grep The grep utility, which allows files to be searched for strings of words, uses a syntax similar to the regular expression syntax of the vi,

April 28, 2011 Other

What is DLL Hijacking?

PORTIONS OF THE BELOW EXPLANATION HAVE BEEN SOURCED FROM DLL HIJACKING DEFINITION AT MARAVIS.com AND HAVE BEEN GRANTED PERMISSION TO USE HERE AS A MEANS

April 28, 2011 Hacking

Backtrack Essentials

How to start DHCP in Backtrack 4 pre-final ifconfig eth0 up (or use whatever your card is, eth0 is a common default. This command basically brings

April 27, 2011 General Security

Mac Shortcuts

Learn about common Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts. A keyboard shortcut is a way to invoke a function in Mac OS X by pressing a

April 27, 2011 Other

Metasploit Extras

./msfcli | grep osx/ (grep for only osx exploits) ./msfcli | grep windows/browser/ (grep for only windows browswer exploits) rexploit (reloads exploit) info exploit name (gives information about

April 26, 2011 General Security, Hacking

SEH Based Overflow Exploit Tutorial

Introduction This tutorial will cover the process of writing an SEH based buffer overflow exploit for a known vulnerability in the Vulnserver application. Vulnserver is

April 26, 2011 Exploit Development

Useful Linux Commands

echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward enables ipv4 forwarding on backtrack, and other distros. Bash commands cut -d” ” -f2 > new  (cuts from an nmap grepable scan

April 26, 2011 Other

Insecure Defaults Lead to Mass Open Proxies in China

Description: A bug in Chinese video streaming software leads to mass open proxies on the web. Introduction A security blogger has uncoverd a flaw in the

April 25, 2011 Other

OWASP Top 10 Deeper Dive – A5: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Description: Parsing the OWASP Top Ten with a closer look at Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). No freely available or open source tools "automagically" discovers CSRF

April 21, 2011 Application Security

CISM Domain – Information Security Governance

There are eight (8) task statements for ISG and twenty (20) knowledge statements. The eight task statements are covered in this post by Ken

TDSS part 3: Bootkit on the Other Foot

The final installment of the 3-part series covers the loading the bootkit previously discussed in part

April 19, 2011 Reverse Engineering

TDSS part 2: Ifs and Bots

For this second part of the series, we look in more depth at the internals of the malware, starting with the user-mode implementation of the

April 19, 2011 Reverse Engineering
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