Article Software Piracy - An Attempt to Assess the Problem In many countries we are dealing with two very serious problems. These are copyright and piracy. I would like in this article to look a little…
Article x86 Assembly Language Applicable To Reverse Engineering: The Basics – Part 1 Overview The x86 Assembly language or ASM is the lowest-level programming language understood by human kind and one of the most primitive ones; it…
Article Apache JMeter Part 4: Testing the Throughput and Performance of InfoSec Institute For part 3 of this series, click here. 1. Testing the Throughput of InfoSec Institute [pkadzone zone="main_top"] [pkadzone zone="main_top"] 1.1.…
Article X86 Assembly Language, Part 3.1 For part 2 of this series, please click here. Programming in a high-level language does not require a detailed knowledge of the system hardware.…
Article Flame: The Never Ending Story It is not possible to talk about cyber warfare and cyber weapons without mentioning the famous Stuxnet virus and the series of state-sponsored…
Article Demystifying Dot NET reverse engineering, part 1: Big introduction Disclaimer This, and all upcoming parts, are made with a strict and pure educational purpose just to gain insights into dot NET programs. What…
Article Filter Evasion: Part 1 1. Introduction First we must talk about vulnerabilities. We know that vulnerabilities that are present in any kind of software can be exploited by…
Article Filter evasion: Part 2 For part 1 of this series, please click here. Methods for bypassing a filter There is a number of different attack strings that can be used to…
Article Estimating Projects, Part I Each of us who has ever worked in any programming project has had to deal with one of the biggest problems we face when creating projects. It is, of…
Article Estimating Projects, Part II For part 1 of this series, please click here. In the first part, our discussion of the estimation focused primarily on the general principles of…
Article Investigating the Crime Scene, Part 1: A Brief Introduction to Computer Forensics and Autopsy Recommended reading http://www.thestudymaterial.com/presentation-seminar/computer-presentation/239-computer-forensics-presentation.html?showall=1…
Article Transforming your Android Phone into a Network Pentesting Device Lester: Hey Nash, are you scanning our school's network with just your smartphone? Nash: Well, yes I am! I'm using a network penetration suite just…
Article x86 Assembly Language Applicable To Reverse Engineering: The Basics – Part 2 For part 1 of this series, please click here. Introduction [pkadzone zone="main_top"] We saw in the first article an introduction to the most comm
Article Hacking SVN, GIT, and Mercurial We all know that when programming with a small or large team, having a revision control in place is mandatory. We can choose from a number of…
Article Free Web Application Scanners, Part 2 In the first part of this article, we have seen the need for free web application scanners and also we have looked into a few tools which are…
Article Legal and Technological Concerns Regarding the Use of BIOS Anti-theft Technologies 1. Introduction In 2006, a laptop containing personal and health data of 26,500,000 veterans was stolen from a data analyst working for the US…
Article Inside Android Applications By the end of 2012, the number of Smartphone shipments around the world will explode to nearly 668 million units, and the Android operating system…
Article Network Topology 1. Introduction Whenever we're doing a penetration test, it's good to figure out the topology of the network we're testing. We can't figure out the…
Article Computer Network Diagnostics, Part 1 Sometimes, at the beginning of my adventure to the Internet, I was wondering how it is that I have a local area network and Internet access. See for…
Article The Internet Underground: Tor Hidden Services Some people think onion routing or the Tor network is for criminals and people with something to hide. Well, they are half right. The Tor network…
Article The easier form of hacking: Social engineering When we talk about hacking, especially in today's world, we hear the media giving us the stories of how hackers hack into a database and steal…
Article Wfuzz and WebSlayer 1. Introduction WfFuzz is a web application bruteforcer that can be considered an alternative to Burp Intruder as they both have some common…
Article Backtrack 5 R3 Walkthrough - Part 3 In this article we will we look at some of the other new tools that were added into Backtrack 5 with the release of its latest version R3. Wifite…
Article Wordfence: Security Plugin for WordPress Wordfence is a free security plugin for WordPress. Security "plugins" for Wordpress are often highly criticized as many may give a false sense of…
