1. Autospy Autopsy is a digital forensics platform and graphical interface to The Sleuth Kit and other digital forensics tools. It can be used by law enforcement, military, and corporate examiners to investigate…
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Anyone can, with the right equipment, access wireless networks (wireless local area networks, wlan’s). After all, there is no physical barrier that makes break-in attempts more difficult, as is the case with wired…
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A penetration test is very different and much more intrusive than a simple vulnerability analysis. It consists mainly of furthering the vulnerability analysis by exploiting the vulnerabilities discovered during the latter. Unmistakably, the…
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Reverse-engineering is especially important with computer hardware and software. Programs are written in a language, say C, C++ or Java, that’s understandable by other programmers. But to run on a computer, they have…
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For those who are interested in learning how to do Penetration Testing, there are many tools and operating systems are available, but very few targets to practice against safely – not to mention…
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Network scanning refers to the use of a computer network to gather information regarding computing systems. Network scanning is mainly used for security assessment, system maintenance, and also for performing attacks by hackers….
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1. Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) CVE (Common Vulnerability and Exposures) is a list of entries, each containing an identification number, a description, and at least one public reference – for publicly known…
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1. Nudge4j Nudge4j is a tiny piece of Java code to make your Java application accessible to the browser. It’s meant for use during development to provide an environment for experimenting with code…
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A conference is a meeting of people who “confer” about a topic. Conference types include: Convention (meeting), meeting of a, usually large, group of individuals and/or companies in a certain field; Academic conference,…
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1. Practical Malware Analysis: A Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software 1st Edition Amazon Buy Link – https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Malware-Analysis-Hands-Dissecting/dp/1593272901 Price – $28.78 (Paperback) & $34.35 (Kindle) Rating – 4.5 out of 5 Nostarch Link – https://nostarch.com/malware…
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Security testing is the process of assessing and testing a system/application to discover security risks and vulnerabilities of the system and its data. There is no universal terminology but for our purposes, we…
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A Penetration test is the process of actively evaluating company’s information security measures. Security measures are actively analyzed for design weakness, technical flaws and vulnerabilities. The results are delivered comprehensively in a report,…
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Nowhere is the term hacker more misconstrued than in the network security field. This is understandable because the very same tools that network security professionals use to probe the robustness of their own…
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SubBrute is one of the most popular sub-domain brute forcing tool through which we can easily enumerate the best possible sub-domains of any domain along with all DNS records. It is one of…
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WPA/WPA2 vastly improves the security of wireless networks; however, the extra protection comes at the price of added complexity to the protocol. Although WPA was developed with security in mind, it does have its own…
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The Apache Web server is a remarkable piece of software. The basic package distributed by the Apache Software Foundation is quite complete and very powerful, and a lot of effort has gone into keeping…
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As seen from the previous articles, SQL injection has the ability to attack a web server database, compromise critical information, and expose the server and the database to a variety of malicious exploits;…
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Due to safety reasons, there are some trucking regulations are in place for the truck drivers and other roadway users. However, these hours-of-service regulations may seem a bit complicated even though they are…
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1. Character Set: A character set is a specification that determines the set of codes used to represent the characters of a particular language or set of languages. Among the oldest character sets…
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Unvalidated data Never trust anything you get from a Web browser. The browser is completely outside of your control, and it’s easy to fake values like the HTTP referrer. It’s also easy to…
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Cryptography is essentially used for converting plain text into cipher text to ensure confidentiality. If a user has the appropriate key, the cipher text can be reversed to get the original plain text….
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Although Bluetooth is extremely convenient for short-range wireless data transfers, it also has several security risks if not configured and used securely. Following are some of the common Bluetooth threats: 1. Loss of…
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