Monday, August 25th, 2008
Traditionally, the area of information security has been purely defensive. Classic examples of the defensive mechanisms used in order to protect communication networks include firewalls, encryption and IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems). The strategy follows the classical security paradigm of "Protect, Detect and React.” In other words, try to protect the ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
The first stage of penetration testing is usually passive information gathering and enumeration (active information gathering). This is where tools like dnsenum come in, the purpose of DNSenum is to gather as much information as possible about a domain.
The program currently performs the following operations:
1. Get the host’s addresse (A ...
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
With identity theft on the rise and personal information at a premium, it's never been more important to be cautious about what you reveal online.
Social-networking sites such as Facebook have largely usurped chatrooms and forums -- at least in the grown-up world -- as fun places to hang around online ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
For years, organizations have focused on the evil outsiders that were behind attacks on their networks. Firewalls, IDS, IPS technologies have come to the rescue and have resulted in impregnable walls protecting organization networks. Now with strong walls, the challenge is ensuring the trusted insiders don't walk out with the ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
This paper will help you configure your web browser for safer internet surfing. It is written for home computer users, students, small business workers, and any other person who works with limited Information Technology (IT) support and broadband (cable modem, DSL) or dial-up connectivity. Although the information in this document may ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Traditional IDS/IPS systems occur at the network level, usually plugged into a spanning port on a switch. I love this concept and think it should be part of any defense in depth strategy. The two primary weaknesses in these devices are, (1) they cannot process encrypted streams and (2) they ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
The wildly popular open source Snort intrusion prevention technology is getting a major makeover.
Marty Roesch, who wrote the first version of the software nearly 10 years ago, has rewritten the software from top to bottom in the next-generation Snort 3.0 release, due in beta next month and early next year ...
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