Articles tagged with: vulnerabilities
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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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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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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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Monday, 14 Nov, 2011
Rootkits Hidden in Hardware of PC by Anibal Sacco
Let's think like an attacker for a second. There are multiple applications dedicated to find malicious code both in user and in kernel space. So new places have to be found to
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Thursday, 10 Nov, 2011
Apple has updated vulnerabilities in Java for Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 systems, some of which could allow an attacker to execute code outside of the secure Java sandbox. Vulnerabilities in Shockwave and Java are becoming
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Thursday, 10 Nov, 2011
Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.1.629 and earlier versions on the Windows and Macintosh operating systems. These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker, who successfully exploits these vulnerabilities, to run malicious code on the
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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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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.
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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
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Friday, 14 Oct, 2011
Apple has this week (12th October) released it's latest mobile operating system called iOS 5. The new iOS 5 patches 96 vulnerabilities, including 69 security fixes for WebKit.
The more notable security fixes included are; memory corruption issues
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Thursday, 6 Oct, 2011
Microsoft have released their "Patch Tuesday" update for October 11th which includes a critical flaw that could give attackers the ability to remotely spread a virus through compromised Internet Explorer and Windows users. The security update will
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Friday, 23 Sep, 2011
CONTENT:
Cracking Java Applications Using AOP exploits (part 1)
By Daniel Drozdzewski
Aspect Oriented Programming is a paradigm that aims to modularise software further by the separation of crosscutting concerns. Daniel will show us the basics of AOP and a simple, yet powerful
