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Keatron Evans


Keatron, one of the two lead authors of "Chained Exploits: Advanced Hacking Attacks From Start to Finish", is a Senior Instructor and Training Services Director at InfoSec Institute.

Keatron is regularly engaged in training and consulting for members of the United States intelligence community, military, and federal law enforcement agencies. Keatron specializes in penetration testing and digital forensics. In addition to training, Keatron serves as Senior Security Researcher and Principle of Blink Digital Security which performs penetration tests and forensics for government and corporations.



Incident Response and Computer Forensics on Rootkits

Lets pick up where we left off with the rootkit and post-exploitation video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izv1b-BTQFw). Except, we are now doing incident response. First you’ll see some

July 27, 2011 Articles

Advanced Rootkit Exploit – Demonstrated

This is mainly post-expoitation demonstration, that first starts with a walk-through of exploiting a windows machine. Next, we walk through getting a copy of the

June 28, 2011 Articles

Flesh Tone Analysis – Intermediate Computer Forensics

This analysis comes in handy in computer forensics cases such as porn or child pornography investigations. This video shows how to search through hundreds of

May 01, 2011 Articles

SQL Injection – Another hacking how-to

We wanted to get up a brief demo of the ubiquitous SQL Injection. We use it here to get control of the OS. We’ll have

May 01, 2011 Articles

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 Articles

Man In The Middle – Demystified

This is a complete demo of MitM Incoming search terms: man in the middle https exploit ‘man in the middle’ Permanent link to this post

April 30, 2011 Articles

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 Articles

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 Articles

What is DLL Hijacking?

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April 28, 2011 Articles, Hacking

Computer Forensics: Alternate Data Streams

Alternate Data Streams are a way to store data on a machine that is not readily accessible to users. Using ADS, files are not easily

April 12, 2011 Articles

Computer Forensics: Snort Logs Analysis

Sometimes the best evidence of a network intrusion resides in network or traffic logs. Snort is a well known open-source traffic analysis and network intrusion detection

April 07, 2011 Articles

How to Learn the IT Skills of a Security Professional

In the comments to an earlier article, Ideal Skill Set For the Penetration Testing, a reader, Nicole, asked, “Does anyone have any suggestions on where

March 31, 2011 Articles

iPhone Security: 10 Tips and Settings

The iPhone is one of the most popular mobile devices on the market with an array of downloadable apps for users to do any number

March 24, 2011 Articles

iPhone Security: iPhone Forensics

In this video, we will review the wealth of forensic data stored on an iPhone 3Gs using Paraben’s Device Seizure software. The iPhone is one

March 23, 2011 Articles

Some common Infosec job roles and related certifications

Most people hear the term Infosec, and they automatically associate that with network and telecom security, but in reality it’s much broader than that. IDS

February 07, 2011 Articles, CCNA, CEH, CISA, CISM, CISSP, IT Certifications, MCITP

Advanced Tutorial: Man in the Middle Attack Using SSL Strip – Our Definitive Guide

We got a lot of great feedback from our first Man in the Middle Video so we decided to double-down and give you guys some

November 19, 2010 Articles

iPhone App Exposes Pontentially Anyone’s Social Security Number.

There has been web sites around for a while that allows one to listen in on certain police, fire department, and other public service radio

November 03, 2010 Articles
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Ideal Skill Set For the Penetration Testing

Based on questions I’ve gotten over the years and specifically in class, I’ve decided that we need to address some basic skills that every penetration

August 27, 2010 Articles

Video: Man-in-the-Middle – how it works

This is a step-by-step video of the man-in-the-middle attack. We teach this and much more in our ethical hacking course. We’ll also teach you how

August 17, 2010 Articles

Video: Ethical Hacking demo – basic client-side attack

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August 16, 2010 Articles
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