H_acktivis_T) in December 28th 2008 In today’s increasingly interconnected business world, vulnerabilities present in an organisation’s technical infrastructure can lead to serious problems – the loss of trade secrets, damage to reputation or even breach of legal obligations to protect confidential information. A penetration test is designed to emulate real life attack motivations and techniques in order to provide a [...]
H_acktivis_T) in December 28th 2008 Malware is software with malicious intent. Besides viruses and worms, spyware, adware, and other newer forms of malware have recently emerged as widely-spread threats to system security. It is difficult to detect malware reliably because new and polymorphic ones appear frequently. It is also difficult to remove malware and repair its damage to the system [...]
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H_acktivis_T) in December 28th 2008 Businesses evolve, grow and change. As part of this evolution IT applications are deployed, improved and optimised. These applications, be they websites, transactional systems or data entry applications, often deal with sensitive information and have a key role in marketing the brand of an organisation.
IRM’s Application Security Test provides a comprehensive assessment of the security [...]
H_acktivis_T) in December 28th 2008 Biometric systems comprise electronic devices and as such can utilise common electronic transports for the transmission of biometric related data. With biometric access control and indentification systems, users will typically present their biometric to a sensing device, which in turn may transmit data pertaining to that biometric to a server or secondary processing unit to [...]
H_acktivis_T) in December 28th 2008 An all-star cast of authors analyze the top IT security threats for 2008 as selected by the editors and readers of Infosecurity Magazine. This book, compiled from the Syngress Security Library, is an essential reference for any IT professional managing enterprise security. It serves as an early warning system, allowing readers to assess vulnerabilities, design [...]
H_acktivis_T) in December 25th 2008 What does it mean?
System.IO Namespace
The System.IO namespace contains types that allow reading and writing to files and data streams, and types that provide basic file and directory support. Read m0re: Here
The System.IO namespace offers classes, methods, and properties that are necessary for working with directories and files. Below are listed the summary of major classes:
BinaryReader [...]
H_acktivis_T) in December 23rd 2008 This is about error based sql injection. Wtf is that? It means that we use the database’s errors as footholds to step further. In this example i will use the process i used a couple of months ago to bypass a login prompt and get the whole member’s (with passwords) database.
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H_acktivis_T) in December 23rd 2008 When it comes to mitigating security risks and satisfying compliance requirements associated with information assets nothing achieves greater results than a well structured and governed management system for information security. This paper assesses the issues organisations must consider when establishing an enterprise security strategy and introduces the Strategic Security Management Framework, developed by Drazen Drazic [...]
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H_acktivis_T) in December 21st 2008 The affects of the ‘Poison Null byte’ have not been widely explored in asp, but as with other languages the NULL byte can cause problems when ASP passes data to objects. This problem arises when data is compared and validated in ASP script but passed to the FileSystemObject without checking for NULL bytes. This document [...]
H_acktivis_T) in December 19th 2008 Black Hat Las Vegas 2007:
The role of the BIOS
Attacking a legacy BIOS
Limitations of the legacy BIOS
Introduction to the EFI environment
Attacking the EFI environment
UEFI, summary and conclusionsUEFI, conclusions
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