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Unsafe Programming

Abstract In .NET, unsafe code really means potentially unsafe code, which is code or memory that exists outside the normal boundary. This article digs into t
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CSRF proof of concept with OWASP ZAP

This article introduces CSRF (cross-site request forgery) vulnerability and demonstrates how to prepare a CSRF proof of concept with OWASP ZAP. [pkadzone
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BEAST vs. CRIME attack

Some months ago there was a top story popping up in almost all the security news feeds about CRIME attacks being able to break SSL. In this article, I would
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Hardware attacks, backdoors and electronic component qualification

The capillary diffusion of technology in our society has an important consequence. Hardware has to be properly analyzed during acquisition and qualification
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Identity Management and Access Control in a Single Sign-on Environment

In this article you will learn the following information: How businesses manage electronic identities and provide access control to their employees, custome
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File system manipulation

This article shows how to perform tasks involving reading and writing files from various partitions by using the C#.net programming API. In particular, it co
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Portable Malware Lab for Beginners – Part 2

In the previous article, "Portable Malware Lab for Beginners," I spoke about nested virtual machines, i.e., deploying a virtual machine with QEMU and Cuckoo.
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Managed C++/CLI Programming: Part 2

Abstract This outlines the rest of the C++/CLI object oriented programming implementations such as inheritance, interface and polymorphism. We'll understand
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Estonia: To Blackout an Entire Country – Part 2

IV. Attack Targets & Impact The main targets appear to be information distribution channels owned either by the Estonian government, or the private and b
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The BodgeIt store part two

Before we go any further, I would like to focus on how a developer thinks and likes to manage a web application development process. During the developmen
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The breach attack

Back in 2012, when Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong announced the CRIME attack, a TLS / SSL Compression attack against HTTPS, the ability to recover selected par
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Windows Phone Digital Forensics II

Abstract Abbreviated as WP, Windows Phone is a new Smartphone operating system developed by Microsoft in order to succeed the old Windows Mobile. This "new"
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The BodgeIt store part one

The Bodgelt store The BodgeIt Store created by Psiinon is a vulnerable web application. It consists of a wide variety of vulnerabilities and is NOT intend
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Managed C++/CLI Programming: Part-1

Abstract This article illustrates the theory and principle behind C++/CLI programming in a .NET CLR context. We shall investigate the remarkable features of
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Hacktivism: Means and motivations … what else?

The term "hacktivism," derived by combining hack and activism, refers to the use of computers and any other IT system and network to debate and sustain a pol
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Understanding Windows Internal Call Structure

Microsoft Windows is a modular architecture. Windows Components are split into smaller pieces known as DLL (Dynamic-Link Library) and sys files (system files
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Windows Systems and Artifacts in Digital Forensics, Part II

Introduction For Part I of these series, please visit this page: https://resources.infosecinstitute.com/windows-systems-and-artifacts-in-digital-forensics-pa
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Estonia: To Black Out an Entire Country – part one

Introduction The cyber-attacks that befell Estonia in 2007 is a case much discussed and underrated at the same time. Many tend to ignore the eloquent fact th
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Pin: Dynamic Binary Instrumentation Framework

Introduction Pin is a DBI framework for IA-32 and x86-64 architectures, which can be used for dynamic analysis of the binary program at run time. When using
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IOS Application Security Part 19 - Programmatical Usage of Introspy

In this article, we will look at how we can Introspy as a python module in our scripts. The first thing to do is to import the introspy module and Namespace
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Web Services Penetration Testing Part 1

Introduction: Web application security is quite popular among pen testers, so organizations, developers and pen testers treat web application as primary att
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Ajax Security Issues

This article is about exploring major security issues we come across during assessment of Ajax based applications. AJAX: Ajax or 'Asynchronous JavaScript an
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Windows Phone Digital Forensics I

Abstract Abbreviated as WP, Windows Phone is a new Smartphone operating system developed by Microsoft in order to succeed the old Windows Mobile, and this "
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Enterprise Security Management

An enterprise invests considerable amount of time in its day to day scanning and managing patched for the infrastructure. But, an enterprise psychological an
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