Article Cracking the Maze of Advanced Persistent Threats! Advanced Persistent Threats, as the name suggests, are advanced, persistent and deadly in their nature. The ghost of APTs can affect any…
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Article What is Bitcoin? Bitcoin is a digital currency or, we might say, electronic cash that uses peer-to-peer technology for transactions. Here peer-to-peer means it is…
Article The ZeroAccess Botnet Revealed There has been a large spread of Botnet-related threats in the web world recently. Now when we talk about botnets, it is basically a collection of…
Article Project Artemis – OSINT activities on Deep Web Introduction During the last months I was a member of the board for a project titled Artemis, a research project that I started with my co-author…
Article IOS Application Security Part 6 - New Security Features in IOS 7 As we all know, Apple recently introducted its new version of IOS at WWDC 2013 with a completely redesinged User Interface. If you haven't seen it…
Article Using OSINT in Your Business How could organisations leverage open-source intelligence to gain more insight into their cyber threats? It seems that many organisations, including…
Article Encryption – Anything to Declare? Encryption is a great tool for reducing risks of the loss and interception of data. Encryption technology it has become increasingly deployable and…
Article Windows Memory Protection Mechanisms Introduction When trying to protect memory from being maliciously used by the hackers, we must first understand how everything fits in the whole…
Article Botnets Unearthed – The ZEUS BOT Zeus, also known as ZBot/WSNPoem, is famous for stealing banking information by using man in the browser keystroke logging and form grabbing. As the…
Article IOS Application Security Part 7 - Installing and Running Custom Applications on Device without a registered developer account Usually, to test apps on a device, you need to be a registered developer which costs about $99/year. For people who want to learn IOS Application…
Article The Palantir Technologies model, lights and shadows on a case of success Introduction In this article one of the most debated intelligence company is presented: the Palantir Technologies, a firm that is recognized as one…
Article Programming with COM Abstract This article commences by taking a brief backward glimpse at COM then compares it with the way that components interact in .NET, and…
Article IOS Application Security Part 8 - Method Swizzling using Cycript In the previous article, we looked at how we can install custom apps on our device without a developer certificate. In this article, we will look at…
Article Fitting cyber attacks to jus ad bellum — Instrument-based approach Introduction The coming of new technologies is challenging to many fields of human activity. In particular, there is a discrepancy between IT and…
Article .NET Reverse Engineering-1:CIL Programming Introduction The prime objective of this article is to confront with the .NET mother tongue language termed as Common Instruction Language (CIL)…
Article Common Vulnerability Scoring System 1. Introduction This article presents an open framework for scoring IT vulnerabilities— the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Version 2.0.…
Article Confessions of an Identity Thief Note: This is the first in a series of articles written by a convicted felon currently serving 57 months in a federal correctional institution for…
Article Fitting cyber attacks to jus ad bellum — Target-based approach I. Essence The target-based is the second approach that theorists and practitioners use to tuck cyber warfare into the unfitting law framework that…
Article .NET Assembly Programming Abstract In this series, we'll examine the core details of creating, deploying and configuring .NET assemblies and its advantage over existing COM…
Article Password Cracking Evolution In this article, my goal is to show the evolution in password cracking era how hackers/crackers cracked passwords around 10 years ago and how they…
Article Socket Programming Introduction This article will give you a broad understanding of key networking concepts, such as ISO stack and TCP/IP, and how applications can…
Article IOS Application Security Part 9 - Analyzing Security of IOS Applications using Snoop-it In some of the previous articles, we have looked at how we can dump class information of IOS apps using class-dump-z, hook into the runtime using…
