by Bob Rudis and Phil Kostenbader
Hardware and software firewalls promise to protect your system and your network from the dangers of the Internet, but how well do they really fare against cutting-edge attacks? This article presents ...
by Marek Bialoglowy
Introduction to Bluetooth
Bluetooth (BT) wireless technology provides an easy way for a wide range of devices to communicate with each other and connect to the Internet without the need for wires, cables ...
by Sachin Shetty
Spyware overview
Spyware is a categorical term given to applications and software that log information about a user's online habits and report back to the software's creators. The effects of these ...
by Thorsten Holz, Frederic Raynal
Introduction
This paper will explain how an attacker typically proceeds in order to attack a honeypot for fun and profit. In part one we compared honeypots to steganography and then looked at ...
by Keith J. Jones, Rohyt Belani
Introduction
Electronic evidence has often shaped the outcome of high-profile civil law suits and criminal investigations ranging from theft of intellectual property and insider trading that ...
by Thorsten Holz, Frederic Raynal
Introduction
To learn about attack patterns and attacker behavior, the concept of electronic decoys or honeypots are often used. These look like regular network resources (computers, routers, ...
by Timothy E. Wright
1. A Classic scene from the information security professional's work life
One of your systems administrators pokes his head in your office door. "The print spooler machine may have been compromised. ...
by Michael Ossmann
Introduction
In part one we examined the latest generation of passive WEP cracking tools that use statistical or brute force techniques to recover WEP encryption keys from captured wireless network ...
by Artur Maj
Introducing part three
This article concludes our three part series dedicated to configuring Apache 2.0 with SSL/TLS support -- for maximum security and optimal performance of SSL based e-commerce transactions.
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by Don Parker
1. Introduction
The purpose of this article is to explain the existence of alternate data streams in Microsoft Windows, demonstrate how to create them by compromising a machine using the Metasploit Framework, and ...