Ryan Mazerik

Ryan has over 10yrs of experience in information security specifically in penetration testing and vulnerability assessment. He used to train and mentor consultants of these offerings to expand security delivery capabilities.He has strong passion in researching security vulnerabilities and taking sessions on information security concepts.
Ryan Mazerik

Articles from Ryan Mazerik

General security

Understanding DNS sinkholes - A weapon against malware [updated 2021]

May 17, 2021

Excerpt: Utilizing DNS sinkholes to prevent malware DNS sinkhole or black hole DNS is used to spoof DNS servers to prevent resolving hostnames of specified

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General security

Save Our Souls (SOS) [Updated 2019]

September 3, 2019

Natural disasters are unexpected events that can cause severe financial and environmental loss as well as the loss of human life. As an enterprise, it is our

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Hacking

ICMP attacks

March 12, 2018

ICMP stands for Internet Control Message Protocol and is the most used protocol in networking technology. A connectionless protocol, ICMP does not use any po

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General security

DDoS on UPNP Devices

March 11, 2015

Denial of service (DOS) attack is an attempt to make a machine or a network resource unavailable to its users. It basically consists of methods to temporaril

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Hacking

ScanBox Framework

February 27, 2015

ScanBox is a framework in the form of a JavaScript file. The function of ScanBox is to collect information about the visitor's system without infecting the s

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General security

Securing VoIP systems

August 5, 2014

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet

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General security

Honey Encryption

July 14, 2014

Current Scenario In today's world, cyber criminals often use software to brute force passwords, and some may lead to successful attacks. Since there are many

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Hacking

Active X Exploitation

June 10, 2014

ActiveX is a framework created by Microsoft to extend the functionality of the Component Object Model (COM) and Object Linking Embedding (OLE) and apply it t

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Operating system security

Windows 7 Security Features

May 23, 2014

Windows 7 is an Operating System developed and released by Microsoft in 2009. It was designed to be a successor to the Windows Vista range of operating syste

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Hacking

Remote access tool

April 24, 2014

Remote Access Tool is a piece of software used to remotely access or control a computer. This tool can be used legitimately by system administrators for acce

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Management, compliance & auditing

Information Security Policies

April 16, 2014

Organisations are giving more priority to development of information security policies, as protecting their assets is one of the prominent things that needs

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Hacking

DNS Tunnelling

March 25, 2014

You all know what DNS is, and I don't think any more information is needed on it. Our Internet world exists due to DNS technology, and exploiting DNS can bri

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