What are the security holes in the Basic Authentication scheme?

September 22, 2008 0 Comments 0 tags

The Basic Authentication scheme uses the username and password and encrypts the password using base64 encoding. In spite of this, there are still many security holes in the Basic Authentication

What are the phases of malicious hacking?

September 20, 2008 0 Comments 0 tags

The following are the phases of malicious hacking: 1. Reconnaissance: In this phase, the attacker gathers information about the victim. 2. Scanning: In this phase, the attacker begins to probe

What are the general classes of hackers?

September 19, 2008 0 Comments 0 tags

Hackers are categorized into the following classes: * Black Hat Hackers (Crackers): These are persons who are computer specialists and use their hacking skills to carry out malicious attacks on

What are snort rules?

September 18, 2008 0 Comments 0 tags

Snort rules are the conditions specified by a Network Administrator that differentiate between normal Internet activities and malicious activities. Snort rules are made up of two basic parts: * Rule

Shell via LFI

September 18, 2008 0 Comments 0 tags

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Shell via LFI – proc/self/environ method <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Author : SirGod <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> www.insecurity-ro.org <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> www.h4cky0u.org <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> [email protected] <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< 1 – Introduction 2 – Finding LFI 3

What are the drawbacks of signature-based antivirus software?

September 17, 2008 0 Comments 0 tags

Every virus cannot be detected by a signature-based antivirus largely for the following reasons: * If an attacker has changed the signature of a virus, any signature-based antivirus will not

What are the countermeasures against software keyloggers?

September 16, 2008 0 Comments 0 tags

It is very hard to detect a keylogger’s activity. Hence, a Network Administrator should take the following steps as countermeasures against software keyloggers: * Actively monitor the programs running on