Article Link manipulation Link manipulation Phishing Tools & Techniques Articles: [clist id="1470339196766" post="36036"] [pkadzone zone="main_top"] Overview Phishi
Article Port scanners Port scanning is a popular reconnaissance technique which is used to discover the open ports and services available on a particular host. It can be…
Article Website Forgery We visit websites in search of a desired result: information, a transaction, interaction, or some free or paid service. The natural tendency is to…
Article Case Study of Phishing for Data Theft/Ransom: Locky Ransomware Ransomware like Locky spreads mainly through phishing emails, encrypts files using strong encryption, demands payment, and can cripple networks.…
Article Ransomware as a Service: 8 Known RaaS Threats The rapid rise of crypto-ransomware over the past several years is undoubtedly the number one security concern that antimalware labs are yet to…
Article Phishing Attacks in the Government and Military Phishing Targets: Government and Military Phishing Targets by Industry: Financial Phishing Government and Military Phishing Healthcare Phishing…
Article Relevance of Windows EventIDs in investigation In this article, we will take a look at important Windows Event IDs, what we normally see in logs and how different EventID can be used to construct…
Article The Dark Web: a Paradise for Scammers Introduction Journalists and laymen of matter believe that black markets hosted on the dark web are places where criminals can do their business in…
Article Phishing Definition, Prevention, and Examples Phishing Definition, Prevention, and Examples Related articles in this section: [clist id="1470243405619" post="35256"] What is Phishing? Phishing…
Article Metasploit Certification Overview Metasploit, a well-known security framework, it is widely used by information security experts during the penetration testing process for developing…
Article Phishing Simulation – How Do You Calculate Effectiveness and ROI? (Part 2 of 2) In our first article about calculating the effectiveness and return on investment (ROI) of a phishing simulation, we discussed theoretical or model…
Article Firmware Analysis for IoT Devices Introduction This is the second post in the IoT Exploitation and Penetration Testing series. In this post, we are going to have a look at a key…
Article Android Malware Analysis Objective: This exercise covers the techniques to analyze Android malware by using a custom malware sample. The malware, when running on an Android…
Article Financial Losses from Phishing The Cost of Data Breaches The cost of spear-phishing attacks in 2015 averaged more than $1.5 million per incident, with only some 3% of companies…
Article Phishing: Denial of Service (DoS) Implications A denial of service attack can be bewildering to victims. It’s like an ambush of boy scouts by a team of fully armed United States Marines.…
Article Ransomware Mitigation and Prevention Crypto ransomware continues to be a scourge on the computer security arena. Not only do these infections grab and hold end users' files hostage, but…
Article Ransomware: A Highly-Profitable Evolving Threat Introduction Ransomware is considered by the security industry one of the most dangerous threats to Internet users and organizations across the…
Article Hooking and Patching Android Apps Using Cydia Substrate Extensions Introduction: In one of the previous articles, we have discussed how to exploit debuggable applications on Android. You can find that one here.…
Article New Wave of Cyber-attacks on Banks 1. Introduction In the past two years, the financial world has been stunned by three major cyber-attacks on banks, namely, (1) the attack on…
Article Why GIAC? A Suitable Choice that Meets Professional Needs The protection of information assets is a top priority for any business or organization; this explains the growing need for experts in a number of…
Article Ethical hacking vs. penetration testing History of ethical hacking It all began in the 1960s at MIT when the notion "hacker" was coined to mean someone dedicated to solving technical…
Article Building Serialized Phishing Simulation and Security Awareness Campaigns The Science of Forming Habits As we discussed earlier, the main goal of an organizational security awareness education program is to modify the…
Article The Breach of Anthem Health - the Largest Healthcare Breach in History It was February 4, 2015, and an announcement that would shake the medical and insurance industries to their core was about to be made. Anthem, Inc.,…
Article Common malware persistence mechanisms As we know, malware becomes stealthier by somehow achieving persistence on the exploited machine. This helps malware authors to inject/exploit once,…
