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All posts by Jago Maniscalchi

antibvirus-shellcode
Anti-virus evasion – 2. Using custom shellcode
February 11, 2012, No Comments

In the previous article in this series – Choosing a Payload – we examined the impact that different Metasplo ...

antivirus-msfpayload
Anti-virus evasion – 1. Choosing a payload
February 4, 2012, 1 Comment

I know a number of professional penetration testers who refuse to use Metasploit in their professional tests because of ...

couple-password
What is your password worth?
February 3, 2012, No Comments

However you design and protect your information system, authorised users must be able to identify and authenticate thems ...

bottom-jeans
Biometrics of the bottom
January 22, 2012, No Comments

Researchers at Japan’s Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology have identified what they believe to be a new b ...

fulldiskencryption
The Benefits of Full Disk Encryption
January 13, 2012, 2 Comments

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is asking everybody to adopt a New Year’s Resolution for 2012 – to use fu ...

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Password reminders from power adaptors
January 10, 2012, No Comments

A recent patent filing in the US (2012/0005747) by Apple, sets out a system for two-factor authentication using computer ...

wps
Bypassing WPS Router Security
January 4, 2012, No Comments

Security researcher Stefan Viehbock recently released information about a method that can be used to bypass the security ...

password
10% of passwords cracked in 5hrs
January 3, 2012, No Comments

At the end of 2011, the hacking group Anonymous published a million password hashes stolen from US firm Strategic Foreca ...

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Kim Jong-Il death exploited
January 2, 2012, No Comments

The former North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il, who suffered a fatal heart attack on board a train on December 17th last y ...

Digital Threat Manifesto-430px
Ten Rules of Information Security
December 4, 2011, 1 Comment

There are a number of rules, or principles, that I firmly believe should be at the heart of any organisation’s Inf ...

mydoom
Anti-virus won’t keep your data safe
December 3, 2011, No Comments

Two of the key rules of Information Security are to understand what you are protecting and to understand what you are pr ...

DARKMARKET UK
Dark Market – Lessons on Cyber Crime
November 7, 2011, No Comments

Former BBC and Guardian correspondent Misha Glenny is an expert on many subjects. He wrote the definitive account of the ...

apt-people
APT – More Persistent than advanced
October 30, 2011, No Comments

RSA, one of this years highest profile victims of an ‘Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)’ held a summit in Was ...

the-register-hacked
The Register Hacked
September 4, 2011, No Comments

The popular technical news website ‘The Register’ has been defaced today in an attack by a Turkish hacking g ...

cyberwar
What is Cyberwar?
September 4, 2011, 1 Comment

Introduction This article is intended as an introduction to Cyberwar, during which we will propose a definition for the ...

snorby-feat
Snorby – NSM on Rails
August 27, 2011, No Comments

Our last Network Security Monitoring review was of sguil, a distributed application that captures network security data ...

network-ops-center
An intro to Network Security Monitoring
August 26, 2011, 1 Comment

In an article early last year on sguil, I described the concept of Network Security Monitoring (NSM). The concept was de ...

htaoe
Review: Hacking, The Art of Exploitation
August 24, 2011, No Comments

A review of Hacking, The Art of Exploitation by Jon Erickson (2nd Edition). This 450-page introduction to hacking – ...

blog
15 of the best Internet security blogs
August 20, 2011, No Comments

In order to keep up to date, I scan daily across an incredible number of Internet or security focussed news sites and bl ...

browser-malware-results
Internet Explorer 9 blocks 99% of malware
August 17, 2011, No Comments

Studies this year have shown that users are four times more likely to be exploited by downloading and executing maliciou ...