Protect Your Wireless Network from Leechers and Hackers
Nowadays pretty much everyone uses wireless networking from your smart phone to your home and/or business networks. There are many security issues with wireless...
General security
IObit Protected Folder Authentication Bypass
Acknowledgements
I would like to dedicate this article to all my friends, they know who they are, and to Irene, for her love and support.
Intro
From time...
Chapter 7: The role of cryptography in information security
After its human resources, information is an organization's most important asset. As we have seen in previous chapters, security and risk management is data...
In-Depth WordPress Security
Note: the following suggestions are at your own risk! This article assumes some level of understanding of what changes are being suggested.
Wordpress is the...
CISO Series: Richard Bejtlich
This is an interview with Richard Bejtlich, Chief Information Security Officer at Mandiant.
1. We have readers with varying levels of information security experience....
IPv6 Surface Analyzer
IPv 6 is a version of IP after succeeds of IPv4. Just like IPv4, IPv6 is an internet-layer protocol for packet-switched internetworking.
While IPv4 uses 32...
Social Media Security
Excerpted from Securing the Clicks: Network Security in the Age of Social Media by Gary Bahadur, Jason Inasi, Alex de Carvalho (McGraw-Hill; 2012) with...
Defending yourself from Google hackers
Before looking how we can prevent ourselves from Google hackers, let's see what Google hacking is.
Google Hacking:
Google hacking is a hacking technique that...
CISO Interview Series- Doug Steelman: CISO Dell SecureWorks
Profile Subject: Doug Steelman
Doug Steelman is the Chief Information officer of Dell SecureWorks, where he leads the defense of Dell SecureWork's networks.
Before...
Measuring the Internet – Part I: Distributed nmap
Last month, I participated in a project that involved the scanning of a whole continent. The goal of the project was to report, within 20 days, how many hosts...