Articles inside the category: Magazine
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Friday, 31 Aug, 2012
Malware discovery and protection
Khaled Mahmoud Abd El Kader
Very often people call everything that corrupts their system a virus, not aware of what viruses mean or do. This paper systematically gives an introduction to different varieties of beasts that come under the wide umbrella called malware, their distinguishing features, prerequisites for malware analysis and an overview of malware analysis process.
Basic Malware Cleaning
Bart Parys
Malware is common nowadays. Each day, machines get infected with viruses, spyware, Trojans, keyloggers, rogueware, ransomware, rootkits. The list continues with more advanced malware like Conficker, Duqu, Stuxnet, Flame. The malware scenario on itself has also drastically changed.
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Wednesday, 22 Aug, 2012
Malware, a cyber threat increasingly difficult to contain
By Pierluigi Paganini
When we speak about malware we introduce one of the worst cyber threat that daily evolve with the capacity to hit every sector without distinction.
Burp Suite Automating Attacks
By Ric Messier
Burp Suite provides a powerful set of tools that not only perform automated scanning that can provide the tester with an overview of how the Web application handles security challenges, but also provide the ability to perform powerful, targeted attacks.
Memory Levels Gate Mitigation
By Amr Thabet
The author created two Modes (normal and high modes) to stop any way to bypass the mitigation
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Tuesday, 21 Aug, 2012
Dear Hakin9 followers:
This month we have decided to devote the current issue to Nmap. Some of you have most likely used Nmap sometime or another, while others use it on a daily basis for network
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Thursday, 16 Aug, 2012
Helix2009R1 is Forensically Sound...Surely?
By Amy Cox and Eyal Lemberger
The golden rule is that the initial media should not be altered. But ACPO do give some wriggle room with the secondary rule being that if the original media is altered
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Tuesday, 7 Aug, 2012
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Hacking Attacks - How and Why
By Vikas Kumar
In this age of prolific Internet use, a major concern that has emerged among webmasters and web hosts alike is the threat of hacking. Originally referring to the process of
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Wednesday, 1 Aug, 2012
POWER IN THE DATA CENTER: STANDARDS & PRACTICES
by Richard Batka
First it should be said that all power is basically the same. The power that makes things run at work is the same power that runs things at home.
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Friday, 20 Jul, 2012
Searching For Exploits, SCAPY Fuzzing
By Craig Wright
SCAPY is a series of python based scripts that are designed for network level packet manipulation. With it, we can sniff network traffic, interactively manipulate it, and fuzz services. More, SCAPY decodes the
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Monday, 16 Jul, 2012
Quantum Computing: Why Would You Care?
By Ayo Tayo Balogun
Quantum computers will be valuable in factoring large numbers, and therefore extremely useful for working on extremely complex encryption algorithms. Our current methods of encryption are simple compared to the complicated
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Perimeter Protection
By Dusko Pijetlovic.
With over half a million apps in the App Store, Apple’s trademark slogan “There’s an app for that” is bordering on reality. We use these apps for online banking, social networking and e-mail
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Tuesday, 3 Jul, 2012
IN BRIEF
By Armando Romeo, eLearnSecurity and ID Theft Protect
As usual specialists from companies eLearn Security and ID Theft protect will share with us latest news from IT security world. Read it to up-date yourself.
There’s Nothing But Data Out There
By Craig
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Monday, 25 Jun, 2012
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Monday, 18 Jun, 2012
Timing Attacks on AES
By Vincent Rijmen
In this article, we explain two timing attacks on AES. Firstly, by way of introduction, we show how a naive implementation of the finite field operations used in the MixColumns step of AES leads
