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Article U.S. Cyber Policy – Course and Legal Aspects Image courtesy of Gualberto107 / FreeDigitalPhotos.net [pkadzone zone="main_top"] Introduction Cyber policy is an important issue that many would…
Article Android Master Key Vulnerability—PoC The recently discovered master key vulnerability in Android has given a jolt to the Android team and other parties involved. This vulnerability…
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Article Weapon of anonymous Before starting, I would like to give a small preview about the topic. This article focuses on the world famous hacker group, known as "Anonymous."…
Article Penetration Testing for iPhone Applications — Part 6 In Part 1 of the article we have discussed about the iPhone application traffic analysis. Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 covered in-depth analysis of…
Article Keygenning: Part I Introduction : A key generator or a Keygen is a computer program that will generate a valid « Product Serial or Key » in order to completely…
Article PsyOps and Socialbots Introduction Social media are the principal aggregation "places" in cyberspace; billions of connected people are using it for a wide variety of…
Article IOS Application Security Part 15 - Static Analysis of IOS Applications using iNalyzer In the previous article, we looked at how we can use Sogeti Data protection tools to boot an iDevice using a custom ramdisk with the help of a…
Article Python for Web application security professionals Introduction: Python is an open source, interactive, object oriented programming language. It's very easy to learn and an extremely powerful high…
Article Penetration testing of an FTP service In this article we are going to learn how to configure ProFTPD service in a CentOS machine. After that we will conduct penetration testing to…
Article Using Hashes in Computer Security 1. Introduction Hashes are often used in computer security. This article presents how data integrity, authenticated data integrity and…
Article The Hunt for Memory Malware Memory forensic is a skill to find out all the artifacts in the memory that is present in the running computer. It is an interesting method to find…
Article IOS Application Security Part 16 - Runtime Analysis of IOS Applications using iNalyzer In the previous article, we looked at how we can perform static analysis of IOS Applications using iNalyzer. In this article, we will look at how we…
Article XKeyscore: NSA’s Surveillance Program Introduction The former contractor for NSA, Edward Snowden, became famous for revealing PRISM, a confidential mass surveillance program run by the…
Article WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) Introduction Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) can be used to manage the deployment of the latest Microsoft Windows operating system updates.…
Article Phishing with Data URI Phishing Phishing is a method of e-mail fraud that is used to gather personal and financial information from the recipients. According to Wikipedia,…
Article OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence) With an estimated 80% of required information available for use in an open source for specific information vital for a deep analysis in newspapers,…
Article Penetration testing of web services with CGI support This article shows hands-on penetration testing using an Apache server with CGI access; it identifies some vulnerabilities and performs exploits…
Article Online dictionary attack with Hydra When an attacker wants to learn credentials for an online system, he can use brute force or a dictionary attack. This article introduces these two…
Article Email encryption: Mailvelope Between constant password breaches and the NSA looking in on everything you do, you've probably got privacy on the mind lately. If you're looking…
Article System address map initialization in x86/x64 architecture part 1: PCI-based systems This article serves as a clarification about the PCI expansion ROM address mapping, which was not sufficiently covered in my "Malicious PCI…
Article Protect Data by Preventing Insecure Cryptographic Storage Daily, we read news about hacking and data leaks. Hackers are really active these days. So, it is our responsibility to prevent them in getting…
