Jose Nazario on Botnet Takedowns, Cybercrime and Whether We Can Ever Win

Dennis Fisher talks with botnet researcher Jose Nazario about whether botnet takedowns are worth the effort, the evolution of attack techniques and whether we can ever get the upper hand on attackers. Download: digitalunderground100 Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital...

Warm up the keyboard, Its time for February The Hacker News Magazine !

Warm up the keyboard, Its time for February The Hacker News Magazine ! Warm up the keyboard, hack into the internet security of your mind and help us fill the February The Hacker News Magazine with fun, interesting and educational web security info. Our readers love to see what you are up to and...

[Call for Article] The Hacker News Magazine - November 2011 Edition

Call for Article The Hacker News Magazine - November 2011 Edition The Hacker News is starting to prepare the next issue of 'The Hacker News Magazine'. Submissions are invited for a 6th up coming special November Issue as "Anniversary Edition ". If you have something interesting to write, please...

Forget APT, Mass Malware is Still the Big Threat

MALAGA, SPAIN–While the high-profile attacks against RSA, Google and others over the last couple of years has focused a lot of attention on defending against advanced, targeted attacks, the fact remains that most attackers are in fact relying on crimeware packs loaded with commodity exploits for...

Microsoft Releases Version 2.1 of EMET Mitigation Toolkit

Microsoft has released a new version of its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit, a free download that gives IT staffs the ability to better defend against exploit attempts. The EMET now includes support, as well. EMET is a toolkit that essentially is designed to add exploit mitigation...

Preview : Web App Hacker's Handbook 2nd Edition !

Preview : Web App Hacker's Handbook 2nd Edition ! The first draft of the new edition of WAHH is now completed, and the lengthy editing and production process is underway. Just to whet everyone's appetite, I'm posting below an exclusive extract from the Introduction, describing what has changed in...

Practical Web Security testing of HTTP truncated smuggling vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In this article, we will detailed to introduce the reader for the HTTP truncated and HTTP smuggling attack security testing techniques. We will by example demonstrate how to use the HTTP Protocol, certain properties, or the use of Web application weaknesses, or different proxy for HTTP message of...

As Memory Protections Advance, Exploits Stay a Step Ahead

SAN FRANCISCO–Despite years of efforts by software security teams at major vendors to harden the operating systems and browsers that are the most common targets of attackers, exploitation of new as well as older vulnerabilities is still simpler than many people might think. Microsoft, Mozilla,...

Windows Exploitation Part 2

In part two of his lecture on exploiting Microsoft Windows, Dino Dai Zovi discusses specific techniques for attacking Windows machines...

Free Microsoft Tool Hardens Programs Against Attack

Microsoft has released a free tool for retroactively hardening applications against known attacks, without recompiling the program with a special compiler flag. The Enhanced Mitigation Evaluation Toolkit EMET allows developers and administrators to activate specific protection mechanisms in...

windows Driver vulnerability discovery and use-vulnerability and early warning-the black bar safety net

Information source: evil octal information security teamwww.eviloctal.com to Article author: Anibal Sacco Translation author: r! usksk（springs brother: http://riusksk.blogbus.com to Note: this article starting the hackers Defense of, after the translation the original author of friendship submitt...

For the Bluetooth PIN code of the latest attack techniques details of the analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Note: This Chapter is just to explain the determination for the Bluetooth PIN code of the latest attack techniques, in order to draw attention to prevention, and no other purpose. No person shall use in this article the description of the technology to do illegal things. Recently, many domestic a...

Hacker attack techniques Summary: The Sniffer listens on the law-vulnerability and early warning-the black bar safety net

One, write the purpose of this article Our forum friends keep posting ask yourself there is no poisoning, is black, or installed some software or do the wrong system settings after the system shows weird errors, but also afraid to re-install the system. System Restore function and defectivesome...

[EXPL] Exploit Code Released for errpt

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