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Know your enemy. The more you know about your enemy, the more effectively you can fight him and protect from him. But this rule works in both directions. Not only do security specialists try to know about malicious code but also bad guys try to protect and hide from them.
Author: MICHAEL R. HEINZL
Source: Hakin9 9/2010
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In the world of Internet many kinds of malicious software create havoc – Trojan horses, worms, viruses. Security specialists stand in a fight to neutralize and stop these programs. They are trying to understand how this software works. They are using all kinds of specialized
This information could be used in a penetration-testing scenario. This is how I would approach an unsecured VOIP implementation. This test was conducted on 30 phones and the laptop used was able to handle the load since the voice codec used by the phone system was G711@8hz.
Author: Marc-Andre Meloche
Source: Hakin9 9/2010
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Every company has an IT staff on a separate dedicated floor; this could be useful to gain sensitive information about network infrastructure or accounts, or this could also used to get information on senior staff. Also, most of the time the IT staff will not use safe security practices
This paper talks about the analysis of a suspicious executable named unwise_exe. The binary exhibits how diversified functional characteristics can transform a victim’s machine into a slave.
Author: ADITYA K SOOD
Source: Hakin9 9/2010
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This malware can undertake a lot of network
Mobile phone malware first appeared in June 2004 and it was called Cabir. The mobile-phone features at most risk are text messaging (using social engineering), contacts list, video and buffer overflows. GSM, GPS, Bluetooth, MMS and SMS will indeed be
Traditional IT training has always been in the classroom where you spend a week or two with strangers and just follow the instructor through the coursebook, but in recent years more and more courses are becoming available via online learning
There have been billions of dollars in damages caused by exploiters on the Internet. These exploiters are intelligent cyber terrorists, criminals and hackers who have a plethora of tools available in their war chest – ranging from spyware, rootkits, trojans,
We are receiving malware daily via hundreds of facets that the Internet enables with various services; most common are via e-mail and web surfing.
Author: ISRAEL TORRES
Source: Hakin9 8/2010
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What you will learn…
- You will learn how to armor your malware against
ARP Poisoning and other Layer 2 attacks are present since many decades now and one may think that they are absolute. However, we still see them quite often on the network. The biggest advantage is easy access to sensitive information
A three part series about the study of the ever increasing threat of Malwares that uses the Web to propagate.
Author: RICHARD C. BATKA
Source: Hakin9 8/2010
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What you will learn…
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Thursday, 1 Jul, 2010
So here’s a question: Which IT sector accounts for fully 25% of the industry’s year-over-year growth and, if the same growth trajectories continue, will generate about one-third of the IT industry’s net new growth by 2013?
Author: MIKE ARMISTEAD
Source: Hakin9 7/2010
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Thursday, 1 Jul, 2010
In general a monopoly is bad for an industry. Prices invariably increase beyond reasonable production costs and innovation stops. It’s a natural law that competition brings about new advances and achievement.
Author: MATTHEW JONKMAN
Source: Hakin9 7/2010
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Intelligence is of course an
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Thursday, 1 Jul, 2010
A discussion on how radio frequency-enabled technology could leave people vulnerable to identity theft and then potential identity fraud.
Author: JULIAN EVANS
Source: Hakin9 7/2010
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Identity theft and identity fraud is a growing business. The crime itself is very much still in
