Articles tagged with: hack
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Friday, 19 Apr, 2013
EXPLOITING SOFTWARE
A Quick Reference To Metasploit Framework
By Abhinav Singh, the author of “Metasploit penetration testing cookbook,” a contributor of SecurityXploded community
Metasploit is currently the most widely used and recommended penetration testing framework. The reason which makes metasploit so popular is the wide range of tasks that it can perform to ease the work of penetration testing. The article is a quick introduction to the framework and various terminologies related to it.
My First Hack, Basic Introduction To Metasploit Framework
By Guglielmo Scaiola, I.T. Pro since 1987, MCT, MCSA, MCSE, Security +, Lead Auditor ISO 27001, ITIL, eCPPT, CEI, CHFI, CEH
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Wednesday, 7 Dec, 2011
Android Insecurities
by Joey Peloquin
The article will begin with a focus on what the author calls Offensive Mobile Forensics, an analysis technique that mimics the approach an attacker would take in the event they acquired a lost or stolen device. Readers will notice some stark differences between iOS and Android analysis. Next, the author will discuss exploits on the Android system. Lastly, the article will wrap up with a discussion regarding mobile malware, which is far more pertinent due to the ongoing mobile malware epidemic facing Android mobile devices.
Phun with PhoneGap
by Mike Haworth
PhoneGap now (Apache Callback) allows web
Latest News From IT Security World
By Armando Romeo, eLearnSecurity and ID Theft Protect
Duqu: The Precursor Stuxnet Attack
By Rebecca Wynn
Duqu is essentially the precursor to a future Stuxnet-like attack. The threat was written by the same authors, or those that have
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Sunday, 27 Nov, 2011
The U.S government (FBI and DHS) claim that no cyber attack whether from the US mainland or overseas actually happened as repored in the media last week. The media say that 'attackers' were able to burn out
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Sunday, 27 Nov, 2011
Google already offers HTTPS as default for Gmail and encrypted search. Google has now moved on and is now enabling "forward secrecy" by default. Forward secrecy (or PFS) ensures that a session key cannot be compromised if
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Monday, 21 Nov, 2011
Malware Analisys for Windows Systems Administrators Using Sysinternal Tools
By Dennis Distler
Today administrators deal with malware infections almost daily. Often malware is customized for specific organizations, departments in an organization, and even individuals in the organization.
This type of malware typically is
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Thursday, 17 Nov, 2011
Facebook has been under attack from violent images and porn on several users' profile pages. It appears to be one of the most prolific breaches of Facebook security since it was first launched. Users have been tricked
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Monday, 31 Oct, 2011
Latest News From IT Security World
By Schuyler Dorsey, eLearnSecurity i 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.
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Thursday, 27 Oct, 2011
Sixty popular Swedish websites have been identified as potential targets in a massive password hacking incident in Sweden. A leading Swedish Democrat had his Twitter account hacked. The hacker(s) preceded to tweet email addresses and MD5 hashes
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Monday, 17 Oct, 2011
A study of a Botnet creation process and the impact of a DDoS attack against a web server
by Stavros N. Shaeles and Ioannis D. Psaroudakis
Over the following paragraphs we are going to describe in steps, the procedure of setting up
An nVidia GeForce GT220 graphics card, which costs about 30 GBP, is capable of cracking strong passwords in a matter of hours. Security experts were able to crack a 6 character password in 4 seconds, a 7
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Wednesday, 5 Oct, 2011
