Blog Posts Tagged with "Hacking"
Hacking-Kung Fu: Aims and Objectives Part 2
May 07, 2012 Added by:Quintius Walker
A major aim of Kung-Fu Hacking training is System Security - or more so being able to secure your own systems. This ability to defend ourselves is a general asset, and has long-term benefits as more and more vulnerabilities become exploitable to the general public...
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Fear and Loathing in Infosec: The Black Mass
May 02, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
Gesticulating and making odd sounds, the hackers milled and jerked around like some strange species of black raptors. Babbling incoherently about arcane knowledge in the hopes of one upping the other hapless technoweens in the room....
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Recovering Windows Passwords Remotely in Plain Text
April 26, 2012 Added by:Dan Dieterle
There has been a lot of buzz across the web the last few months about a program called “Mimikatz”. It is an interesting program that allows you to recover Windows passwords from a system in clear text. The passwords for anyone who has logged into a machine can be displayed...
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Observations on Lack of Research in Social Engineering
April 20, 2012 Added by:Bozidar Spirovski
The attack was performed by multiple phone calls which created contact with multiple targets. Each call was a probing attempt to collect as much information possible. The first and second stage of the attack was aimed at the same targets but with several days delay between stages...
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Security BSides Chicago 2012 Presentation Lineup
April 19, 2012 Added by:Security BSides
Each BSides is a community-driven framework for building events for and by information security community members. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. It is where conversations for the next-big-thing are happening. You don’t want to miss it...
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Hacking-Kung Fu: Aims and Objectives
April 16, 2012 Added by:Quintius Walker
Understanding Kung Fu-Hacking enables you to realize that there is more to it than merely learning form or exploits. Understanding will lead you, if you are still not able to defend yourself in real world situations or compromise systems outside lab environments, to ask why...
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Governments and Gaming Platforms: It's Time for Warfare
April 10, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The U.S. Navy has reported that scope of the project is to hack into consoles to access to sensitive information exchanged through their messaging services. They have offered guarantees that the spying technology will be used only on nations overseas...
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OWASP Releases Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) 1.4.0
April 09, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications... ZAP provides automated scanners as well as a set of tools that allow you to find security vulnerabilities manually..."
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EU: Possession of Hacking Tools to Become a Criminal Offense
April 04, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Cyber attacks on IT systems would become a criminal offense punishable by at least two years in prison throughout the EU under a draft law backed by the Civil Liberties Committee. Possessing or distributing hacking software and tools would also be an offense...
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CyberPatriot Announces National Championship Winners
March 27, 2012 Added by:Headlines
“CyberPatriot has introduced the area of cyber defense to tens of thousands of students across the country, and they’ve embraced the opportunity to learn and develop the skills to be successful in a field critical to America,” said Bernie Skoch, CyberPatriot Commissioner...
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Cyber Attacks are Fastest Growing National Security Threat
March 23, 2012 Added by:Bill Gerneglia
Cybercrime is a relatively new phenomenon but because of its recent scale and game-changing implications for both government and industry it is rapidly becoming the dominant risk theme of the 21st century. The opportunity for cyber attacks grows daily...
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Location, Location, Location: It Works in Risk Management
March 21, 2012 Added by:Edwin Covert
With the increase in cybercrime costs, organizations need to be able to ensure they are maximizing their return on risk management investment. An effective way of doing this is making sure the information security or risk management team is properly aligned within their organization...
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Developing the LNK Metasploit Post Module with Mona
March 21, 2012 Added by:Rob Fuller
One of Mona’s many and least well known functions is ‘header’, which outputs a ruby version of a file broken into ASCII and binary parts. The problem: I need to recreate a file in a way I can manipulate it in a post module without using the spec or Railgun to assist...
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Security Tips When Providing Free Wi-Fi at Your Business
March 08, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Wi-Fi is great for bringing in customers and as a promotional tool that creates customer loyalty. Merchants such as hotels, coffee shops, burger joints and anyplace with a store front, chairs and tables is offering free Wi-Fi. But what about all the Wi-Fi security threats?
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Researchers Successfully Hacked Online Voting System
March 07, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Within 48 hours of the system going live, we had gained nearcomplete control of the election server. We successfully changed every vote and revealed almost every secret ballot. Election officials did not detect our intrusion for nearly two business days..."
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On Hacking Humans at the RSA Conference
March 07, 2012 Added by:Jeff Bardin
RSA was a veritable cornucopia of data collection. There were no firewalls, human IDS/IPS or content filtering at this show. People openly discussed strategic plans, engineering specs and tactical activities whether over morning coffee or late night shots of Patron...
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