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Article Invoking Assembly Code in C# Abstract This article explains the techniques of inline Assembly programming by linking or invoking the CPU-dependent Native Assembly 32-bit code to…
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Article API hooking API hooking is a technique by which we can instrument and modify the behavior and flow of API calls. API hooking can be done using various methods…
Article Buffer Overflow Attack & Defense Abstract This paper attempts to explain one of the critical buffer overflow vulnerabilities and its detection approaches that check the referenced…
Article Android hacking and security, part 3: Exploiting broadcast receivers In the first two articles, we discussed attacks associated with Activity Components, content provider leakage and ways to secure them. In this…
Article Remote access tool Remote Access Tool is a piece of software used to remotely access or control a computer. This tool can be used legitimately by system administrators…
Article Privacy and Security Issues for the Usage of Civil Drones In December, Amazon.com, the world's largest online retailer, announced that it is testing unmanned drones to deliver products ordered by its…
Article David & Goliath – Winning Strategies in Cyber Warfare Fortunately fashion is not key to helping us win the Cyber-War because sartorial elegance has never been a strong suit of the IT profession, but…
Article Hacking Implantable Medical Devices Preface: Modern Medical Devices and their Software Contemporary healthcare relies heavily on medical devices to help patients lead normal and…
Article Securing IIS Server Checklists Abstract This paper is designed to demonstrate the common IIS web server security specifications in the form of a checklist that aids web masters or…
Article Exploiting unintended data leakage (side channel data leakage) In the previous articles, we discussed attacks associated with activity components, content providers, broadcast receivers, and ways to secure them.…
Article Fool the Network Hunters (Hackers) Portspoof is meant to be a lightweight, fast, portable, and secure addition to any firewall system or security system. The general goal of the…
Article iOS Application Security Part 34 - Tracing Method calls using Logify In the previous articles, we have seen how applications like Snoop-it can trace method calls specific to the application at runtime. This is very…
Article Cloud-Based File Sharing Websites: A Data Security Disaster Waiting to Happen? Have you ever stopped to consider the sensitivity and potential value of the information you have distributed using the many widely available file…
Article Public Key Cryptography and PuTTYgen – Program for Generating Private and Public Keys In today's electronic world where everything is done online, "trust" is hard to come by. Conversations can be snooped on, credit card numbers can be…
Article Encrypted code reverse engineering: Bypassing obfuscation Obfuscation is a distinctive mechanism equivalent to hiding, often applied by security developers, to harden or protect the source code (which is…
Article Exploiting Windows 2003 server reverse shell This paper is intended to explain several Metasploit approaches to exploit the vulnerable Windows 2003 server operating system, especially through…
Article 2013 Data Breaches: All You Need to Know Introduction: Statistics 2013 may be remembered as the "year of the retailer breach". This statement was reported in the last Verizon Data Breach…
Article Debugging Java Applications Using JDB This article walks the readers through debugging Java programs using a command line tool called JDB. Though this article doesn't touch Android…
Article A History of Malware: Part One, 1949-1988 These days, malware is an everyday concern, even among ordinary end users. A countless amount of money is lost every year worldwide due to malware,…
Article Android Tamer – A Walk Through Are you a Backtrack/Kali freak? Ever thought of having a similar distribution in your arsenal dedicated for Android Security? "Android Tamer" is the…
Article Heartbleed: What can be Learned from Playing the "Blame Game"? By now, everybody who hasn't been living under a rock since April 7th this year has heard of Heartbleed. Most know that it is a devastating blow to…
Article Android Application Security Testing Guide: Part 2 In our last part of this series (Android Application Security Testing Guide: Part 1), we discussed static analysis of Android APK files on the…
