Article BEAST vs. CRIME attack Some months ago there was a top story popping up in almost all the security news feeds about CRIME attacks being able to break SSL. In this article,…
Article CSRF proof of concept with OWASP ZAP This article introduces CSRF (cross-site request forgery) vulnerability and demonstrates how to prepare a CSRF proof of concept with OWASP ZAP.…
Article Unsafe Programming Abstract In .NET, unsafe code really means potentially unsafe code, which is code or memory that exists outside the normal boundary. This article…
Article Port scanning using Scapy TCP connect scan TCP connect is a three-way handshake between the client and the server. If the three-way handshake takes place, then communication…
Article Will the iPhone 5S Be The Catalyst to Fingerprint Scanners on All Our Devices? A phone used to be a simple device you would make phone calls with. It could have your contact list, or even a log of recent contacts, but that was…
Article IOS Application Security Part 20 - Local Data Storage (NSUserDefaults, CoreData, Sqlite, Plist files) In this article, we will look at the different ways in which applicatons can store data locally on the device and look at how secure these methods…
Article Brainpan Brainpan is a vulnerable virtual machine created by superkojiman. It's a vulnerable virtual machine with vulnerable services and it's not intended…
Article Phishing Counter-Measures Unleashed In this article, I have done my best to gather and explain all the possible ways by which phishing can be avoided. Here I am going to explain…
Article Demystifying Java Internals (An introduction) Volume 1 Java is a technology that makes it easy to develop distributed applications, which are programs that can be executed by multiple computers…
Article Symmetric and asymmetric encryption This article explains how symmetric and asymmetric encryption work. It also describes how to build a secure mail system using these two types of…
Article Photo forensics: Detect photoshop manipulation with error level analysis Error Level Analysis is a forensic method to identify portions of an image with a different level of compression. The technique could be used to…
Article Optimizing Managed Code Execution Abstract As an application grows ever more complex, it is necessary to build a more efficient and faster .NET application that requires a special…
Article What We Learned from APTs in the Current Year Early this year we witnessed major IT firms suffering from data breaches of one kind or another, and they have come out in the open about the…
Article Gentoo Hardening Part 1: Introduction to Hardened Profile Introduction In this tutorial, we'll talk about how to harden a Linux system to make it more secure. We'll specifically use Gentoo Linux, but the…
Article Understanding Session Fixation 1. Introduction Session ID is used to identify the user of web application. It can be sent with the GET method. An attacker can send a link to the…
Article Gentoo Hardening: Part 2: Introduction to PaX and Grsecurity Configuring PaX with Grsecurity We've already briefly discussed PaX, but now it's time to describe it in detail. PaX provides the following security…
Article Reverse engineering with OllyDbg The objective of writing this paper is to explain how to crack an executable without peeping at its source code by using the OllyDbg tool. Although,…
Article 2013 - The Impact of Cybercrime Introduction Recent studies published on the evolution of principal cyber threats in the security landscape. They present concerning scenarios,…
Article Gentoo Hardening: Part 3: Using Checksec Checksec The checksec.sh file is a Bash script used to verify which PaX security features are enabled. The latest version can be downloaded with the…
Article Remoting Technology Distributed Computing Abstract[pkadzone zone="main_top"] This article covers the means of cross-process and cross-machine interaction of…
Article Modern Online Banking Cyber Crime Introduction In recent years, cyber crime has grown by leaps and bounds. Cyber crime revenue grew to levels comparable to that of a state, and major…
Article Web Services Penetration Testing, Part 2: An Automated Approach With SoapUI Pro In the previous article, we discussed how the sudden increase in the use of web services makes it an important attack vector. Also, we covered…
Article IOS Application Security Part 21 - ARM and GDB Basics All the IOS devices released uptil now are based on the ARM architecture. All the Objective-C code that we write while developing IOS applications…
Article Fuzzing for SQL injection with Burp Suite intruder This article introduces Burp Suite Intruder and shows how it can be used for SQL injection fuzzing. Burp suite intruder It is a part of Burp Suite,…
