Articles tagged with: passwords

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on : Wednesday, 15 Jun, 2011

Hakin9 Extra 1/2011 – Exploiting Software

  • Ask the Social Engineer: Exploitation of the Human OS – The Human Buffer Overflow by Chris Hadnagy Total domination is the goal for a penetration tester in every pentest – To utterly hack the company and demonstrate their true exposure to malicious attacks. Obtaining code execution is the easiest and most direct way to reach this goal. Social Engineering professionals are no different.
  • From Fuzz To Sploit by Israel Torres By now everyone has heard of buffer overflows and a lot have been hearing about it for the last 15+ years. Through this time period there have been many techniques evolved both to combat vulnerabilities
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on : Saturday, 4 Jun, 2011

Believe It or Not: Hackers Hit Sony Networks Again

Sony just can not catch a break. After repeated network breach events over the last two months that have exposed the account details of millions of Sony customers, the hacker collective known as LulzSec claims to have done it yet again. “We are looking into these claims," Jim Kennedy, executive vice president of Global Communications for Sony Pictures Entertainment, said in a statement. The group claims to have hacked Sony Pictures, Sony Entertainment, Sony BMG and compromised sensitive data for over one million customers, as well as gaining access to admin passwords, music "codes" and "coupons". "We recently broke into
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on : Wednesday, 6 Apr, 2011

Security firm RSA Security breached

RSA Security is one of the biggest players in the enterprise security landscape, featuring advanced authentication, access control and data loss prevention products. The hype about the breach occurred to the company spread to almost every security news website. Company’s
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on : Tuesday, 1 Mar, 2011

ID Theft – Hakin9 03/2011

  • The best way, to learn and apply cryptography ARKADIUS C. LITWINCZUK The CrypTool project is about making the sometimes daunting subject of cryptography more accessible and easy to understand. It is the most comprehensive cryptography learning tool worldwide.
  • Analysis of a Scam RICH HOGGAN It’s
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on : Saturday, 1 Jan, 2011

Cybercrime and Cyberwar Predictions for 2011 – Hakin9 01/2011

  • Pros and cons of partial passwords in web applicationsDarek ŁysyszynAlmost every web application requires some kind of authorization. Most of them use user password authorization. And most of time one is forced to type full password. Is this solution convenient
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on : Monday, 1 Nov, 2010

The Spyware Within You

Yes, today’s spyware though resides in your computer or mobile but it’s pretty much inside you. Whatever we do, wherever we go it’s stored in a computer or an embedded device like mobile phone. Author: RAJAT KHARE Source: Hakin9 11/2010 http://hakin9.org What you will learn…
  • The
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on : Friday, 1 Oct, 2010

A Beginners Guide to Ethical Hacking

A beginners guide to Ethical Hacking is a great book from beginners to intermediate users who are interested in learning more about ethical hacking. Author: SHYAAM SUNDHAR Source: Hakin9 10/2010 http://hakin9.org   A beginners guide to Ethical Hacking is a great book from beginners to intermediate
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on : Friday, 1 Oct, 2010

Wuala – Secure Online Storage

There are a lot of online storage/backup solutions available nowadays and it is hard to find differences between them, but I think Wuala from LACIE may have something unique in the way their solution
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on : Friday, 1 Oct, 2010

An Analysis of the Spyware Threat and how to Protect a PC

A Brief History of Spyware Spyware has been around since approximately the midlate nineties but it wasn’t until the millennium that Zone Labs founder Gregor Freund coined the name Spyware. Spyware can be clearly defined as invasive (monitoring your browser
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on : Wednesday, 1 Sep, 2010

Hardware Keylogger – A Serious Threat

Keyloggers are a serious threat for both companies and individuals. Their goal is to log all input made by a user and to then make it available for the attacker. Author: MICHAEL R. HEINZL Source: Hakin9 9/2010 http://hakin9.org   The input collected may
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on : Wednesday, 18 Aug, 2010

Mobile Malware – the new cyber threat

  • Botnet:The Six Laws And Immerging Command & Control Vectors
    Richard C. Batka
    New BotNet communication vectors are emerging. The industry is not prepared. For the next 20 years, BotNets will be what viruses were for the last 20.
  • Hacking Trust Relationships Part
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on : Sunday, 1 Aug, 2010

Hacking Trust Relationships – Part II

This is the second article in a series of six that covers the topic of hacking trust relationships. This article focuses specifically on Vulnerability Identification against a target system, in order to identify and exploit potential trust relationships. Author: THOMAS