As the world becomes increasingly digitized, IT security impacts more and more of our lives. Most ordinary citizens are unaware of how our important civic
Marc Winner hasn’t come up with a way to precisely measure the return on investment for security training. What he does know for certain, however,
The DOS (Denial of service) attack is one of the more powerful hacks, capable of completely taking a server down. In this way, the server
Wireless networks have become very common in today’s world, people are used to be connected to wireless networks in office, home, coffee shops etc. In
Web application analysis plays a major role while doing a vulnerability assessment/penetration test. Proper information about the web application (for example like type of plugins
Introduction: In my last article, we’d discussed the most important ways in which a rootkit enters a system and subsequently masks its presence so it
Part 1 is here: http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/writing-self-modifying-code-part-1/ All the code for this tutorial is on github. Links for particular components are interspersed, or you can just pull
Some Random Number concepts: “Random numbers” means numbers which are random in practice (i.e. unpredictable and non – reproducible). As simple this term looks when
Chapter 1Security: A working definition Managing Risk Probability of Occurrence Business Impact Threat Sources Human Threats Geographic Threats Natural Threats Technical Threats Security as a
I was showing off a trick to export Firefox SQLite tables to a spread sheet, and while she is a forensics person, she had never
Introduction In Virtual LAN or VLAN is a group of hosts communicate with each other, even thoughthey are in different physical location. Virtual LAN provides
Privacy and Big Data Terence Craig and Mary E. Ludloff O’Reilly Media At this point, everyone and their uncle is on Facebook. Free webmail accounts
This article will talk about the maintaining access step in a penetration test. After an attacker has broken into the system and got access, escalated
We have seen our fair share of malware codes from time to time. With the help of disassemblers and debuggers, we have a shot of
Introduction: Social engineering is commonly understood to mean the art of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential information –Wikipedia Pen testers can break
