What Damage Can Hackers Do?
Hackers like to subvert computer security without permission. They are cyber criminals. This can mean gaining access to a computer across the Internet for illicit purposes. They might engage in any of the following activities: * Vandalism—Destruction or digital defacement of a computer or its data for destruction’s sake. Sometimes this is ego-driven. They break [...]
Detecting and Preventing Social Engineering and other Hacking Processes
Social engineering attacks are growing fast, and today majority of attackers use social engineering techniques to infiltrate into a victim’s network. It is very difficult for a technician to identify social engineering attacks, as these attacks do not involve any technical tools or any software-coding program. A social engineering hacker attempts to persuade users to [...]
SQL injection Basic Tutorial
One of the major problems with SQL is its poor security issues surrounding is the login and url strings.this tutorial is not going to go into detail on why these string work as am not a coder i just know what i know and it works SEARCH: admin\login.asplogin.asp with these two search string you will [...]
[Paper XSS] Vulnerabilities in Common Shockwave Flash Files
SummaryCritical vulnerabilities exist in a large number of widely used web authoring tools that automatically generate Shockwave Flash (SWF) files, such as Adobe (r) Dreamweaver (r), Abobe Contribute (r), Adobe Acrobat (r) Connect ™ (formerly Macromedia Breeze), InfoSoft FusionCharts, and Techsmith Camtasia. The flaws render websites that host these generated SWF files vulnerable to Cross-Site [...]
DNS disaster: first attacks reported
The first attacks that are likely to have stemmed from a serious Domain Name System flaw have been reported. Dan Kaminsky (Credit: Kaminsky’s blog) The existence of the Domain Name System (DNS) flaw, which could be used to redirect browsers to malicious sites, was revealed at the start of July by security researcher Dan Kaminsky. [...]
