In the previous article in this series – Choosing a Payload – we examined the impact that different Metasplo ...
I know a number of professional penetration testers who refuse to use Metasploit in their professional tests because of ...
However you design and protect your information system, authorised users must be able to identify and authenticate thems ...
Researchers at Japan’s Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology have identified what they believe to be a new b ...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is asking everybody to adopt a New Year’s Resolution for 2012 – to use fu ...
A recent patent filing in the US (2012/0005747) by Apple, sets out a system for two-factor authentication using computer ...
Security researcher Stefan Viehbock recently released information about a method that can be used to bypass the security ...
At the end of 2011, the hacking group Anonymous published a million password hashes stolen from US firm Strategic Foreca ...
The former North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il, who suffered a fatal heart attack on board a train on December 17th last y ...
There are a number of rules, or principles, that I firmly believe should be at the heart of any organisation’s Inf ...
Two of the key rules of Information Security are to understand what you are protecting and to understand what you are pr ...
Former BBC and Guardian correspondent Misha Glenny is an expert on many subjects. He wrote the definitive account of the ...
RSA, one of this years highest profile victims of an ‘Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)’ held a summit in Was ...
The popular technical news website ‘The Register’ has been defaced today in an attack by a Turkish hacking g ...
Introduction This article is intended as an introduction to Cyberwar, during which we will propose a definition for the ...
Our last Network Security Monitoring review was of sguil, a distributed application that captures network security data ...
In an article early last year on sguil, I described the concept of Network Security Monitoring (NSM). The concept was de ...
A review of Hacking, The Art of Exploitation by Jon Erickson (2nd Edition). This 450-page introduction to hacking – ...
In order to keep up to date, I scan daily across an incredible number of Internet or security focussed news sites and bl ...
Studies this year have shown that users are four times more likely to be exploited by downloading and executing maliciou ...