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Watering Hole Attacks

In recent months, many readers became familiar with the term "Watering Hole," used to describe an attack implemented to infect a website’s visitors. One could describe it as a “drive-by” exploit used to compromise legitimate websites.

This method of attack is not new: it’s been observed since 2009, when civil society organizations were compromised with this technique, used as vector to deliver 0-day exploits.

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Wordpress Security

Introduction

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Two Factor Authentication - Why it is important and How to use it

The story so far

Recently we’ve read in the news two huge attacks on two major social networks -Twitter and LinkedIn. These attacks were aimed to steal, from the two DBs, usernames, passwords and even session tokens of the social networks users.

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Scan Your Home Network With Nmap

Who should read this article?

Everyone that is interested in computer security and computer networking should read this article.

Introduction

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Identify Web Application Vulnerabilities using OWASP ZAP

Introduction

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Information Rights Management (IRM)

Introduction

Information Rights Management is the set of techniques and methods which protect the highly sensitive information of the organization irrespective of the file location whether it resides "in" or "outside" the corporate boundaries. This happens as the permissions embedded inside the file don't allow unauthorized access, modification, copying or printing. This is typically done for protection of financial documents, intellectual property such as patents, design blueprints and executive communications.

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Bluetooth Reconnaissance: Watching Over Invisible

Remember Paris Hilton case? All her confidential data was compromised through her mobile-phone. Though it was not Bluetooth attack but your handheld devices can be one of the best targets for attacks and Bluetooth can be major part of it.

The goal of the discovery process is to identify the presence of Bluetooth devices, and finding each device’s 48-bit MAC address which is known as BD_ADDR.

The challenging part in this step is finding the devices which are in invisible mode along with visible ones. So let’s do it…

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Digital Signature

Before we begin or discussion on the digital signature let us first understand what is Signature, what does it stand for etc. .

A Signature is a handwritten and often stylized representation of someone’s name, initials, nickname or even a simple mark that a person uses on a document as a proof of identity an intent.

A signature is traditionally used to give evidence of:-

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Apple iOS vulnerabilities

Introduction

Apple iOS has successfully emerged as one of the most widely used Operating System today. It runs on Apple devices such as iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Apple TV.

Apple AppStore has the highest number of applications (500,000) with 25 billion apps downloaded till date. However, the iOS developers aren’t bothered about the secure aspect of the applications before they launch it on the AppStore. This huge number of apps and carelessness of developers has lured the hackers to steal data from the applications.