You’re asking one question: “What makes Python different?” And the short answer is: “lots of things“. The longer answers starts by stating that there’s lots that’s familiar, too. Python is a lot like…
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When it comes to Web Development, JavaScript frameworks are one of the most favoured platform for developers & businesses in today’s time. Possibly, you have had a chance to experiment with one or…
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On October 5, 1991, Linus Benedict Torvalds, a graduate student from the University of Helsinki in Finland, announced in a Usenet newsgroup that he had created a small UNIX-like operating system called Linux….
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Alright, far too often (especially in the IRC channels) there is a time where even the most beginner of users are faced with the terminal. It has many names: terminal, shell, console, “command…
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Static program analysis is the analysis of computer software that is performed without actually executing programs. In most cases the analysis is performed on some version of the source code, and in the…
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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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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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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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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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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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The most prominent components of web applications that intruders will first seek to exploit are vulnerabilities within the web platform. The web platform commonly includes: Web server software (such as IIS or Apache)….
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Web application hacking is not just about using automated tools to find common vulnerabilities. It is indeed a methodological approach that, if followed, would help reveal many more flaws and potential security vulnerabilities. The…
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From an end-user perspective, an Android application may appear as a simple standalone application. However, any Android application consists of many components that work in the background to accomplish the given task. Android…
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The use of wireless networks has increased exponentially over the last decade or so. Wi-Fi is being extensively used not only by corporate organizations but also by individuals and home users. If you…
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Most intrusion detection systems work on a signature basis. It’s quite possible for the attacker to create a custom packet payload that won’t match any of the signatures in the predefined database of…
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Whenever there’s an intrusion into a system (human or malware), it makes a lot of changes in various parts of the affected system. The intrusion might create new files or delete existing ones, change…
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The arrangement of files in a Linux system may seem at first to be a semi-arbitrary arrangement of files and directories, based on historic practice. To an extent that’s true, but over the…
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