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Friday, 15 Jul, 2011
Information is being collected about us every second of every day without us ever realizing what happens to it. Most of us don’t really care what happens to our personal data as long as it isn’t misused. So let’s go up close and persona by taking a brief glance at how you can protect your personal data if you are a UK citizen. Worth remembering, your data held in the UK is also shared with other countries, mainly the English speaking world i.e. Canada, New Zealand USA, South Africa and Australia to name a few. The credit reporting agencies share
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Friday, 15 Jul, 2011
This is a good question. There are quite a few ways that social engineering is used by malicious identity thieves, let me name just a few methods that are used and then you will see how they do their deeds.
by Christopher
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Friday, 15 Jul, 2011
The „Nessus” Project was started by Renaud Deraison in1998, Nessus was not the first free open-source vulnerability scanner but it is the most ubiquitous open source scanner. On October 5, 2005, Tenable Network Security changed Nessus 3 to a proprietary
Website creation has become so simple that just anyone can do it. This doesn’t mean that everyone can do it well. There are so many frameworks and tools available to make dynamic sites easy to put up quickly. The author
The smartphone becomes the most popular gadget all over the world. Undoubtedly, compactness, convenience and PCs’ functional capabilities have been winning modern users’ hearts. People may think that Internet surfing is safer with their favorite smartphone than by PCs and
Imagine all the great sources of information on the Internet today such as: news groups, blogs, websites and forums, and you still see networks, and websites being hacked and torn down using old hacking techniques. For God sake, isn’t that
The firewall is the first line of defense on the network perimeter and end points. Firewalls are the gatekeepers to facilitate the flow of necessary traffic to and from assets. The author in his article focuses on the best practices
Is your web application protected against HTTP Parameter Pollution? A new class of injection vulnerabilities allows attackers to compromise the logic of the application to perform client and server-side attacks. HPP can be detected and avoided. But how? This article
This article is about different kinds of Access Control mechanisms and issues with them in Web Applications. Where sufficient authorization checks are lacking, access controls may be abused by the logged-in user. The impact can be catastrophic. Improper access control
With the high demand for applications and information, companies have made data readily and easily available. Web applications, to keep in touch with friends, download music, or order a new espresso machine, are used so commonly you seldom think about
Web application security is very much in its infancy – some security experts believe this is going to be a major emerging area of technology. Nowadays web apps are more complex and are based on a client-server architecture. This architecture
In his last article Matt Jonkman wrote about Command and Control Channels, or CnCs. In this one he continues the topic of CnC channels and take up the discussion of the individual categories. He also describes some up to date
