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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…
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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…
Article Fitting cyber attacks to jus ad bellum — Consequence-based approach, Part III 1. Criticism and Possible Flaws of Consequence-Based Approach and Seven-Factor Test There are people from the field of law, and not only from that…
Article Means and Methods of Web Tracking: Its effects on privacy and ways to avoid getting tracked 1. Introduction Below, we will discuss the reasons that incited people, businesses and governmental agencies to employ web tracking, detailed and…
Article Password Auditing Explained Why Audit? Harriet Beecher Stowe is credited with the quote "Human nature is above all things lazy" - while I prefer to think of myself as…
Article The Mobile Device Management Saga: An SIEM (Security Information Event Management) perspective Wikipedia defines Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions as solutions that secure, monitors and supports mobile devices, deployed across various…
Article How Edward Snowden protected information … and his life Who is Edward Snowden? Edward Snowden is the man who changed the history of the Internet; he revealed information on the largest and most secret…
Article Facebook Technologies As in any other field, for a win, we should take a look at the successful stories and case studies around us. In this article I would like to talk…
Article .NET Reverse Engineering –Part 2 Introduction The first Article of this series touched the most significant aspect of the MSIL code Instructions, for instance, how a program written…
Article IOS Application Security Part 10 - IOS Filesystem and Forensics In this article, we will be looking at the IOS filesystem, understand how the directories are organized, look at some important files, and look at…
Article Confessions of an Identity Thief – Part 2 The saga continues. Now things get really interesting. In our last episode our identity thief had successfully procured a check made out to the…
Article Rootkits On Your Smartphone While security of mobile operating systems is one of the most researched topics today, exploiting and rootkitting ARM-based devices gets more and…
Article IOS Application Security Part 11 - Analyzing Network Traffic over HTTP/HTTPS In the previous article, we looked at IOS filesystem and forensics. In this article, we will be looking at how we can analyze the network traffic…
Article .NET Reverse Engineering – 3 Introduction We have taken tour of the syntax and semantics of raw CIL up till now. In this article, we shall be confronted with the rest of…
