SecPoint® Cloud Penetrator “Online vulnerability assessment scan” Waking up every morning a skeptic is not that difficult. By 10 AM there are usually two or three interactions that prove I was right. I was invited by Hakin9 to do an evaluation of a product called “SecPoint® Penetrator”, a service provided by SecPoint® of Copenhagen Denmark [...]

In this article, Orlando presents the DDoS attack structure and the Botnet structure . He will explore DDoS attack, the Botnet prevention and the DoS defense systems. He discovers what the mainly motivations pushing hackers to commit criminals act with Botnets and DoS is. You will learn what the DDoS attack structure is and how [...]

When the future comes to your doorstep, you are not sure whether to invite it in or keep it out. And when the future comes crashing in, you are either overwhelmed and mostly feel powerless. This is how one feels when their website or online service crashes. Not sure if this was a spike in [...]

Discussions about denial of service revolve around networks. When someone mentions denial of service, it seems as though it’s common to envision a large flood of traffic of one sort or another. The problem is that there are a number of conditions that might cause a denial of service and not all of them are [...]

The DDoS attacks are used to break the availability of resources and services therefore have a fundamental role in the perspective of the attackers. Its intrinsic nature of the potential success that possess, allow attackers to obtain a high impact on the infrastructure victim. by Jorge Mieres

Internet defined as a „web between webs project” was initially a project of DARPA (American Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) developed and was put in use in order to provide communication between it`s troops after a possible nuclear attack, later on started to be used at universities and subsequently by whole world, seems to be [...]

Most of the botnets currently used by cybercriminals are imple mented in traditional languages such as C++. More recent example are written in Java, achieving some degree of portability but the basically share the same limitations. All these botnet creators fac the same problems, first they need to create a Command & Contro center, to [...]

This article talks about novel security vulnerabilities of IPv6 tunnel – an important type of migration mechanisms from IPv4 to IPv6 im plemented by all major operating systems and routers. The vulner abilities allow an attacker to form routing loops which can easily pro duce DoS attacks. Gabi will describe the principles of the attack [...]

Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, LinkedIn, Skype, the list goes on and on and a majority of the one billion people that use these social net working sites consistently use them while at work. This unchecked flow of data is a new source of sensitive information and creates se curity loopholes for serious cyber attacks. From a [...]

As the enterprise pushes into the cloud, it is important to remain mindful of the distributed IT and communications assets that ar fundamental to day-to-day operations. The widespread adoption of IaaS solutions to virtualize back office infrastructure has allevi ated some of the management and maintenance headaches as sociated with physical IT infrastructure, however it [...]

Digital Forensics is mostly like the movies, the main aspect is to gather evidence or digital footprints which will help you understand any digital crimes that might have occurred inside your organization. This is used in most cases related to computer crimes. New crime vectors are now implicating the use of computers mostly. It is [...]

Contrary to what we wish, mobile digital forensics is made easy because we as individual like to think that no one is ease dropping, shoulder surfing, watching us type in our passwords, taking out our SIM card and copying it while we are with the boss/in the bathroom/heating up lunch, etc. This article goal is [...]

Are we ready for digital evidence? It’s a question that we need to ask more often as crimes will inevitably include forensic evidence gathered from a computer or other digital device on a more consistent basis. Similarly, we still live in a world where we think the computer and what we do on it or [...]

Forensic Improvisation is the concept to capture important intelligence using the available tools at hand and not necessarily the desired toolset. Think of it as guerrilla forensics without the idea of warfare. There is a myriad of ready to burn LiveCD/DVD/USB forensic toolsets that suit the job nicely but that would require training, planning and [...]

Social engineering is nothing new. From some of the oldest stories recorded in mankind? history till today, social engineering has been used. The interesting part about social engineering is that the methods used have not changed much. Sure there is new technology and a deeper understanding of humans and psychology, but the underlining principles of [...]

This article is meant to give you a quick overview of the best practices for Information Security (INFOSEC) forensics. To get started, let? first define this subject and then dig into the tools used in this field of computer and criminal justice sciences. by Gary S. Miliefsky

In this article we will know where bitcoins come from, their future, how to get them, what can we do with them, and most importantly, how to protect them. by David Montero SUBSCRIPTION FOR INDIVIDUAL SUBSCRIBERS

BitCoins are a fascinating experiment in economics – a field that generally doesn’t have much room for real world experimentation. Whether it succeeds in the marketplace or not isn’t as important as the kinds of lessons that we can learn from it. by Jeremy Lichtman SUBSCRIPTION FOR INDIVIDUAL SUBSCRIBERS

One of the most desirable aspect of internet’s currency, Bitcoin, is the way it is produced. Very differently from most currencies, where the power and decision to make more money are held on the hands of central and commercial banks along with governmental interests, the bitcoin system has a very open and decentralized production where [...]

We can create a Flash Drive with Linux based operating system to keep our Bitcoin’s safe. To create that, we need a Flash Drive with a minimum capacity of 1GB(but I recommend a bigger one, for example 16GB, we must remember , in this system will download block content of approximately 300MB and block index [...]