What is a rootkit?

January 25, 2009 0 Comments 0 tags

For me, it is the evolution of the Trojan Horse concept. It is, in these days, a complete package of trojanized system utilities, with some interesting add-on programs, like specially

Cyber attacks are real but is there any foolproof defense yet?

January 23, 2009 0 Comments 0 tags

Tulip Systems Inc., the world renowned high bandwidth and broadcast stream hosting service US corporation was under repeated cyber attacks aimed at disrupting web services during the Georgia-Russia standoff few

Hack Tools, Utilities and Exploits

January 22, 2009 0 Comments 0 tags

Packetstorm Last 10 Files glsa-200901-13.txt – Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200901-13 – Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Pidgin, allowing for remote arbitrary code execution, denial of service and

What Damage Can Hackers Do?

January 22, 2009 0 Comments 0 tags

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

Detecting and Preventing Social Engineering and other Hacking Processes

January 21, 2009 0 Comments 0 tags

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

SQL injection Basic Tutorial

January 20, 2009 0 Comments 0 tags

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

[Paper XSS] Vulnerabilities in Common Shockwave Flash Files

January 20, 2009 0 Comments 0 tags

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