Articles tagged with: online
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Friday, 15 Feb, 2013
BACKTRACK 5R3 EXPLORED
Why Do Hackers Use Backtrack?
By William F. Slater, III
Backtrack distribution has quickly risen to the position of becoming the de facto hacker’s tool for network infrastructures. William F. Slater, III introduces you to Backtrack Linux. His article is not a Backtrack user guide, nor is it a User Guide for any or all the tools that are available in Backtrack Linux. His article shows how to use it to make your organization more secure.
Backtrack Linux – How to Ditch the Menu and Ball from the Command Line?
By Alex Kah
The Backtrack menus already provide an overwhelming amount of
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Thursday, 8 Dec, 2011
A Trojan (identified as Trojan-Downloader.Win32.VB.aoff) is targeting Windows-based systems by removing built-in AV software and clearing a path for cybercriminals to silently steal online banking credentials. The Trojan affects 'ntldr' the default boot loader in Windows.The Trojan is propagating as an attachment on an email. This attack vector relies on the victim clicking on the malicious link which then downlaods two malicious files from AWS. The malicious files are "xp-msantivirus" and "xp-masclean" which worm their way to the bootloader(ntldr). The malicious files replace the bootloader file with a malicious version of GRUB and ntldr then boots into
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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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Tuesday, 29 Nov, 2011
Advanced SystemCare 5: IObit Debuts The New Release Of Its Flagship Software Suite.
Advanced SystemCare is one of the most downloaded Windows utility programs; version 5 of the software sees new functionality and features, making it one of the most comprehensive
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Thursday, 10 Nov, 2011
Most of Julian's (
http://julianevansblog.com) readers probably have a Facebook account, and some of you might also have a Twitter and foursquare account. Given Julian's blog is all about protecting your online and offline identity you
The major UK banks and card schemes are a list of 26 companies that are working with the UK government on the creation of a new personal identity system for consumers transacting online. The '
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Monday, 24 Oct, 2011
Cracking Java Applications Using AOP Exploits (part 2)
By Daniel Drozdzewski
AOP has been used in the domain of Software Security before. Its use was mainly for validation, auditing and authorization purposes, which in turn improve software security as a whole.
SpyEye has been observed trying to trick users into reassigning their cellphone numbers to receive one-time passwords (OTP) from their banks by SMS. The social engineering scam (assuming SpyEye has already infected the target PC) is found
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Thursday, 6 Oct, 2011
The city of Yverdon-les-Bains will host by end of October the 2011 edition of the Application Security Forum - Western Switzerland conference. For this second edition, an exceptional lineup consisting of:
19 speakers and trainers, both locally and internationally recognized,
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Thursday, 29 Sep, 2011
Adobe is released a security update on (Sept. 21) to fix critical flaws in its Flash Player program that are being exploited in online attacks. The security issues include a cross-site scripting vulnerability that leaves Flash open
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Monday, 19 Sep, 2011
Event: Cyber Security: SCADA Systems
A technical exploration of protecting SCADA, smart grid and real-time systems
Date: 2 December 2011
Venue: IET London: Savoy Place
www.theiet.org/scada
Join us at our exciting Cyber Security: SCADA Systems seminar to explore the technical world of protecting
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Wednesday, 14 Sep, 2011
The SpitMo SpyEye hacking toolkit app is targeting smartphones running on the Android operating system according to security vendor Trusteer. The SpitMo is primarily targeting banking web pages. When a user browses to the targeted bank a
