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Hacking March 14, 2011 Jack Koziol

Charlie Miller Reveals His Process for Security Research

As the first in an ongoing series of interviews, we got recent Pwn2Own winner Charlie Miller to answer a few questions and pull back the curtain a bit on the...

CISSP March 14, 2011 Kenneth Magee

CISSP Domain – Cryptography and Security

There are books upon books about cryptography and this article will not attempt to regurgitate all of the historical background about the subject. However,...

Hacking March 10, 2011 Stephen Bradshaw

Stack Based Buffer Overflow Tutorial, part 3 – Adding shellcode

This is the third article in a series of three on stack based buffer overflow. Before you read further, you will want to read the first and second articles. At...

Hacking March 10, 2011 Stephen Bradshaw

Stack Based Buffer Overflow Tutorial, part 2 – Exploiting the stack overflow

This is the second article in a series of three on stack based buffer overflow. Before you read further, you will want to read the first article. In that article...

Hacking March 10, 2011 Stephen Bradshaw

Stack Based Buffer Overflow Tutorial, part 1 – Introduction

Introduction This tutorial, in three parts, will cover the process of writing a simple stack based buffer overflow exploit based on a known vulnerability in...

CISSP March 4, 2011 Kenneth Magee

CISSP Domain – Telecommunications and Network Security

Telecommunications and Network Security is this week’s CISSP domain posting. The dreaded OSI model, there’s no way around it, PDNTSPA or Please Do Not Throw...

Hacking March 1, 2011 Stephen Bradshaw

Debugging Fundamentals for Exploit Development

Introduction This is a basic exploit writers tutorial for OllyDbg, a 32 bit assembler level analyzing user mode debugger for Windows. Version 1.10 of OllyDbg...

Hacking February 28, 2011 Stephen Bradshaw

Tricks for Exploit Development

This is the second article in a series about using the OllyDbg, a 32 bit assembler level analyzing user mode debugger for Windows. In part one of this tutorial...

CISSP February 24, 2011 Kenneth Magee

CISSP Domain – Physical and Environmental Security

This week’s article looks at the Physical and Environmental Security domain of CISSP. First and foremost, (ISC)2 and the CISSP exam consider human safety...

CISSP February 18, 2011 Kenneth Magee

CISSP Domain – Security Architecture and Design

This article will cover some of the major areas within Security Architecture and Design by looking at: design concepts, hardware architecture, OS and software...