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What are the various methods of passive OS fingerprinting?

In passive OS fingerprinting, an attacker installs a sniffer on any third party such as a router on which the victim communicates frequently. Now he studies the sniffer’s log and

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Cyber Attacks to Myanmar Media Sites

Last September 28, BurmeseHackers Group Hacked Irrawaddy Online Store twice, and we’ve been discussed about that. After a month, 27/09/2010: Irrawaddy, Mizzima and the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), were

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Critical SQL Injection and XSS Vulnerability in Myanmar Engineering Society

PlanetCreator has reported another critical SQL Injection (vulnerability) on Myanmar Engineering Society Website http://www.mes.org.mm SQL injection is a code injection technique that exploits a security vulnerability occurring in the database

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