Cyber Stalking It is an act of stalking, harassing or threatening someone using Internet/computer as a medium. This is often done to defame a person and use email, social network, instant messenger, web-posting, etc. as a using Internet as a medium as it offers anonymity. The behaviour includes false accusations, threats, sexual exploitation to minors, … Read more
The internet was born around 1960‟s where its access was limited to few scientist, researchers and the defence only.Internet user base have evolved expontinanlty. Initially the computer crime was only confined to making a physical damage to the computer and related infrastructure. Around 1980‟s the trend changed from causing the physical damaging to computers to … Read more
Internet is among the most important inventions of the 21stcentury which have affected our life. Today internet have crosses every barrier and have changed the way we use to talk, play games, work, shop, make friends, listen music, see movies, order food, pay bill, greet your friend on his birthday/ anniversary, etc. You name it, … Read more
In addition to running a tool such as CxSuite to check for mobile app vulnerabilities, there are several other things you’ll want to look for including: Cryptographic database keys that are hard-coded into the app Improper handling of sensitive information such as storing personally-identifiable information (a.k.a. PII) locally where the user and other apps can … Read more
Practically all messaging applications are hacking targets on your network. Given the proliferation and business dependence on e-mail, just about anything is fair game. Ditto with VoIP. It’s downright scary what people with ill intent can do with it. With messaging systems, one underlying weaknesses is that many of the supporting protocols weren’t designed with … Read more
Ongoing patching is perhaps the best thing you can do to enhance and maintain the security of your Linux systems. Regardless of the Linux distribution you use, using a tool to assist in your patching efforts makes your job a lot easier. Distribution updates The distribution process is different on every distribution of Linux. You … Read more
You can assess critical, and often overlooked, security issues on your Linux systems, such as the following: Misconfigurations or unauthorized entries in the shadow password files, which could provide covert system access Password complexity requirements Users equivalent to root Suspicious automated tasks configured in cron, the script scheduler program Signature checks on system binary files … Read more
Some Linux vulnerabilities involve the bad guy actually being at the system console — something that’s entirely possible given the insider threats that every organization faces. Physical security hacks If an attacker is at the system console, anything goes, including rebooting the system (even if no one is logged in) by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Delete. After the … Read more
RPC and other vulnerable daemons are common targets for buffer-overflow attacks. Buffer overflow attacks are often how the hacker can get in to modify system files, read database files, and more. Attacks In a buffer overflow attack, the attacker either manually sends strings of information to the victim Linux machine or writes a script to … Read more
Cyber security measures are associated with managing risks, patching vulnerabilities and improving system resilience. Key research subjects include techniques associated with detecting different network behavior anomalies and malware, and IT questions related to IT security. Since these research subjects mainly concentrate on the physical, syntactic and semantic layers, present research infrastructures are focused on studying … Read more