Karthik

Karthik is a cyber security researcher at Infosec Institute and works for Cyber Security and Privacy Foundation (a non-profit organization) as a researcher, in India. He finds deep interest in Information security as a whole, and is particularly interested in VA/PT and serving to the cause for Nation's Security.
Karthik

Articles from Karthik

Penetration testing

Android exploitation with Kali

April 17, 2018

In this tutorial, we shall see how to create an apk file using the tools offered by Kali Linux. Kali Linux is a Linux distro with a preset of hacking tools a

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Hacking

Analyzing Quantum Insert Attacks

May 7, 2015

A Quantum Insert Attack is a classic example of man-in-the-middle attacks which resurfaced into news among the top 10 biggest leaks by WikiLeaks founder Edwa

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Threat Intelligence

What We Learned from APTs in the Current Year

October 30, 2013

Early this year we witnessed major IT firms suffering from data breaches of one kind or another, and they have come out in the open about the breaches, as we

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Management, compliance & auditing

Enterprise Security Management

September 26, 2013

An enterprise invests considerable amount of time in its day to day scanning and managing patched for the infrastructure. But, an enterprise psychological an

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Application security

The Mobile Device Management Saga: An SIEM (Security Information Event Management) perspective

July 25, 2013

Wikipedia defines Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions as solutions that secure, monitors and supports mobile devices, deployed across various Mobile ser

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Digital forensics

Cracking the Maze of Advanced Persistent Threats!

June 25, 2013

Advanced Persistent Threats, as the name suggests, are advanced, persistent and deadly in their nature. The ghost of APTs can affect any organization at any

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Hacking

Advanced Persistent Threats – Attack and Defense

June 13, 2013

Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) was originally coined while nations were involved in cyber-espionage. These techniques are used by cyber-criminals to steal

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Application security

L-7 Protocol analysis

May 28, 2013

Traditional intrusion detection systems have always relied on protocol specific analysers to extract the context of the traffic stream. Basically, an intrusi

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Hacking

Google Hacking – For fun and profit - I

May 1, 2013

Google has been used ever since its beginning to find answers for most if not all of our questions from the beginning of the universe to even finding cure fo

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General security

Pimp my Chrome

March 20, 2013

You might be wondering about the title. Let me tell that you shall have your answer by the end of this story. Hacking has been considered as a mysterious ac

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General security

Identity Management Solutions

February 15, 2013

Identity management as a platform is an emerging branch of Information security. Top vendors such as Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle have taken serious plunges in

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Application security

A prototype model for web application fingerprinting: w3 scrape

January 4, 2013

Introduction: Web application fingerprinting is one of the most important aspects of the information gathering phase of ethical hacking. This allows us to n

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