Browsing Monthly Archive October 2012
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Legal and Technological Concerns Regarding the Use of BIOS Anti-theft Technologies

1. Introduction In 2006, a laptop containing personal and health data of 26,500,000 veterans was stolen from a data analyst working for the US Department

October 31, 2012 General Security
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Free Web Application Scanners, Part 2

In the first part of this article, we have seen the need for free web application scanners and also we have looked into a few

October 31, 2012 Application Security
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Q: A Collection of Metasploit Modules Not Accepted to Main Trunk for Various Policy or Quality Reasons

Introduction I guess we all know what Metasploit is, so we don’t really need to present to the reader the basics of Metasploit. But it’s

October 31, 2012 Other
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Hacking SVN, GIT, and MERCURIAL

1. Introduction We all know that when programming with a small or large team, having a revision control in place is mandatory. We can choose

October 30, 2012 Hacking
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x86 Assembly Language Applicable To Reverse Engineering: The Basics – Part 2

For part 1 of this series, please click here. Introduction We saw in the first article an introduction to the most common x86 assembly instructions

October 30, 2012 Reverse Engineering
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Transforming your Android Phone into a Network Pentesting Device

Lester: Hey Nash, are you scanning our school’s network with just your smartphone? Nash: Well, yes I am! I’m using a network penetration suite just

October 30, 2012 Exploit Development
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Investigating the Crime Scene, Part 1: A Brief Introduction to Computer Forensics and Autopsy

Recommended reading http://www.thestudymaterial.com/presentation-seminar/computer-presentation/239-computer-forensics-presentation.html?showall=1 First Responder’s Guide to Computer Forensics – CERT (search for it on Google) Introduction Sometimes out of curiosity you might happen to

October 29, 2012 Forensics
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Demystifying dot NET reverse engineering – PART 2: Introducing Byte Patching

For part 1 of this series, please click here. Introduction We covered in the first part the very basics regarding dot NET programs, how they

October 29, 2012 Reverse Engineering
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Quick and Dirty BurpSuite Tutorial

In this article, we are going to see another powerful framework that is used widely in pen-testing. Burp suite is an integration of various tools

October 29, 2012 General Security
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Free & Open Source Rootkit and Malware Detection Tools

A lot of sniffers, rootkits, botnets, backdoor shells and malwares are still on the wild today, which are used by malicious attackers after successfully pawning

October 26, 2012 Forensics
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Hacking PDF: util.prinf() Buffer Overflow: Part 2

For part 1 of this series, click here. 1. Introduction In the previous part we’ve seen the structure of the PDF document and extracted the

October 26, 2012 Exploit Development
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Estimating Projects, Part II

For part 1 of this series, please click here. In the first part, our discussion of the estimation focused primarily on the general principles of

October 26, 2012 Other
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Estimating Projects, Part I

Each of us who has ever worked in any programming project has had to deal with one of the biggest problems we face when creating

October 25, 2012 Other
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Filter Evasion: Part 2

For part 1 of this series, please click here. 1. Methods for Bypassing a Filter There is a number of different attack strings that can

October 25, 2012 Application Security
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Thoughts from My Three-Night Coding Excursion: Part 3 – Leveraging C# for Your Daily Reverse Engineering

For part 2 of this series, please click here. C# is my favourite language and I definitely intend to stick with it, as the community

October 25, 2012 Other
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Filter Evasion: Part 1

1. Introduction First we must talk about vulnerabilities. We know that vulnerabilities that are present in any kind of software can be exploited by accepting

October 24, 2012 Application Security
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Thoughts from My Three-Night Coding Excursion: Part 2 – Design in C#

For part 1 of this series, please click here. Let’s get on to understanding the GDI+ library to leverage the use of C# and build

October 24, 2012 Other
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Demystifying Dot NET Reverse Engineering, Part 1: Big Introduction

DISCLAIMER This, and all upcoming parts, are made with a strict and pure educational purpose just to gain insights into dot NET programs. What you’re

October 24, 2012 Reverse Engineering
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Hacking PDF: util.prinf() Buffer Overflow: Part 1

1. Introduction One of the first things we need to do is to remove the PDF Reader we currently have installed and reinstall the old

October 23, 2012 Exploit Development
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Thoughts from My Three-Night Coding Excursion: Part 1 – Design Principles

I will discuss a few topics that motivate me to make software the way I like it. Currently I am writing an Android analysis tool

October 23, 2012 Other
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