Articles tagged with: prevent
Quick Start. Installing DefenseWall HIPS is a very simple and straightforward process. I did not experience any problems at all while installing and configuring the program.
Author: Don Iverson
Source: Hakin9 6/2009
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Conventional anti-malware programs rely heavily on regularly updating the program definitions. This is necessary in order to cope with the ever-changing landscape of threats. DefenseWall HIPS is a Host Intrusion Prevention System program and as such it doesn’t need to be concerned about updating definitions or even about having definitions at all. HIPS programs are frequently found actively protecting enterprise level networks and are usually very complex and generally very expensive. It
What is a CVV Number? CVV stands for CARD VERIFICATION VALUE CODE (CVV). CVV is an authentication procedure which was established by credit card companies to further efforts towards reducing fraud over the Internet. The procedure is in fact very simple indeed. It requires the card holder to enter the CVV number whenever a transaction is made online or over the telephone to verify that the individual has the original card in their possession. The CVV code is in fact a very useful antifraud security feature for card not present (CNP) transactions. If you take a closer look at your
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Wednesday, 1 Apr, 2009
In every company network, which is based on Microsoft Windows, there are printers connected to print servers that have been shared over the network and thus can be used by many employees at the same time. This article shows how
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Wednesday, 1 Apr, 2009
It doesn’t take much investigation to conclude that Web Applications are one of the fastest growing aspects of the new Web 2.0 internet. As a result most organizations have at least one Web Application running which presents a very convenient
The 1920's and 1930's in the United States were a very turbulent time. Prohibition was in place for 13 of those years preventing the consumption of alcohol.
Author: MATTHEW JONKMAN
Source: Hakin9 3/2009
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This of course fueled a black market that produced, transported and
In part one of analyzing malware I provided an overview of the process we are going to follow to analyze malware. If you followed the process, depending on the malware, you may have realized that malware developers have plenty of
This article describes a few modern techniques for buffer overflow exploitation. There are just as many ways to prevent BOF with defensive mechanisms as there are ways to bypass those defenses.
Author: JUSTIN SUNWOO KIM
Source: Hakin9 3/2009
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This article is an introduction to analyzing malware. I will take you through the basic steps you need to perform in order to understand what malware is doing to your systems.
Author: JASON CARPENTER
Source: Hakin9 2/2009
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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN...
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Thursday, 1 Jan, 2009
Crime happens every day on this grand old Internet we call home. Daily, hourly, minute by minute. I'd venture that there are easily several crimes a second involving a user giving up their sensitive information, buying a fake security program,
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Thursday, 1 Jan, 2009
Most of all companies only provide a very restrictive environment. While Network and Security Adminstrators do their job, securing the enterprise network from intruders, users are trying to compromise perimeter security to get more than is allowed. Surfing the www
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Thursday, 1 Jan, 2009
Security issues arise from the fact that a limited user has full control over his own processes on the Windows platform. Security mechanisms implemented in the user's own processes can be bypassed.
Author: DIDIER STEVENS
Source: Hakin9 1/2009
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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN...
Why your applications
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Thursday, 1 Jan, 2009
Brief Summary: One of the challenges when conducting a successful penetration test of vulnerability assessment is quickly locating and exploiting Cisco devices within the network fabric. Cisco-Torch uses several methods we will detail to execute scanning, fingerprinting and exploitation duties
