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Article Reverse engineering with OllyDbg The objective of writing this paper is to explain how to crack an executable without peeping at its source code by using the OllyDbg tool. Although,…
Article 2013 - The Impact of Cybercrime Introduction Recent studies published on the evolution of principal cyber threats in the security landscape. They present concerning scenarios,…
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Article Web Services Penetration Testing, Part 2: An Automated Approach With SoapUI Pro In the previous article, we discussed how the sudden increase in the use of web services makes it an important attack vector. Also, we covered…
Article IOS Application Security Part 21 - ARM and GDB Basics All the IOS devices released uptil now are based on the ARM architecture. All the Objective-C code that we write while developing IOS applications…
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Article Top Links of Tools Compilation for Pentesting, Forensics, Security, and Hacking Are you still looking for a suite of tools that may complete your day-to-day activities, or are you just looking for new tools that you can try or…
Article How Classified NSA Exploit tools RADON and DEWSWEEPER Work The NSA FoxAcid Platform Security expert Bruce Schneier is one of the most authoritative experts who revealed that the NSA has a wide-ranging…
Article IOS Application Security Part 22 - Runtime Analysis and Manipulation using GDB In this article, we will look at how we can use GDB to perform runtime analysis of IOS applications. In the previous articles, we have looked at how…
Article Reverse Engineering with Reflector: Part 1 Abstract This paper intended to teach sophisticated reverse engineering tactics, mainly by using Red Gate Reflector. This article demystifies…
Article Reversing firmware part 1 The article will explore various strategies for reversing firmware, with some examples. Finally, some best practices are mentioned. Embedded systems…
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Article Privacy Implications of the Internet of Things Introduction The term "Internet of Things" refers to the use of the Internet for monitoring, tracking, controlling, and interconnecting everyday…
Article Risk associated with cookies The Internet is surely the best resource to gather any kind of information about products, shops, customer complaints, user experience, etc.…
Article Human Factors in Information Security Management Systems It is hard to accept that nowadays, organizations get along without having an astute and decisive information system. Providing a reliable and…
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Article SIM card forensics: An introduction The SIM (subscriber identity module) is a fundamental component of cellular phones. It also known as an integrated circuit card (ICC), which is a…
Article Exploiting Linux Kernel Heap Corruptions (SLUB Allocator) 1. Introduction In recent years, several researchers have studied Linux kernel security. The most common kernel privilege vulnerabilities can be…
Article .NET reversing with Reflexil Technically speaking a .NET built software or component (DLL) resembles an executable assembly. That's because it's compiled in MSIL, and you can…
Article Analyzing malicious PDFs PDF files have become very common in everyday work. It's hard to imagine business proposals without PDFs. The PDF format is used in almost all…
Article Windows Systems and Artifacts in Digital Forensics: Part III: Prefetch Files 1. Introduction In this article, I'm going to focus on prefetch files, specifically, their characteristics, structure, points of interest in terms…
