I just finished reading two electronic books I bought from O’reilly. Here is a short review on them. Hacking: the next generation The purpose of this book is to give to the readers an overview of the most common attacks nowadays. It covers all fields : social engineering, web attacks, networking, etc. It was easy [...]
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Simulated massive cyber attack filmed by CNN
This video, while “amusing”, is quite interesting : Though not many details are given, I am quite skeptical about the possibility of such a massive attack. However, it shows well that security is not just a technical matter. It has many implications in law, politics, economics, and a whole information system must be prepared to [...]
DecaffenatID : a little ARP IDS for Windows
DecaffeinatID is a tool for Windows that can be very useful against ARP attacks.
Windows Vista memory protection : defeated ?
It seems, at least according to some researchers showed it at the Black Hat conference. Mark Dowd (IBM) and Alexander Sotirov (VMWare) found a way to bypass the memory protection implemented in Vista to inject malicious instructions within Internet Explorer. They were able to copy any content wherever they wished on the disk. Especially, this [...]
About network attacks…
I will post later a few examples of network attacks. But, before that, I want to clarify what I call a network attack. I see many people making a confusion about the use of this term, even among professional or specialized journalists. Whenever there is a hack originated from the Internet, they call it a [...]
Hacked !
This blog got hacked yesterday. It looks like some spammer managed to inject some PHP code into almost all *.php files of WordPress. It was not just like the classic SQL injection that is usually used to post some malicious post. The following code was added : <?php echo ‘<script type="text/javascript">function count(str){var res = "";for(i [...]
