Your Quick Guide to Common Attacks
In this guide we'll go over many of the common attacks by providing a brief description of the attack and it's unique characteristics.
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Understanding Virtual Honeynets
This white paper serves as a reference and knowledge repository on Honeynets and their function within modern interconnected organizations. Honeynets are used as a counter intrusion strategy when learning about intruder’s trends and tactics. Honeynets give you the ability to identify the tools and attack strategies that intruders use against you. Significant information like the information provided by honeynets proves to be vital and should be studied and incorporated into your counter intruder strategy.
SMBDie: Crashing Windows Servers with Ease
In this article, we will look at Windows based Security tools, and in this article, we will look at how to easily crash a Windows server in about 5 seconds. What is SMBDie? SMBDie is a tool (proof of concept) that was created to exploit a problem with the Windows operating system and when activated, will crash and Blue Screen the server immediately.
Wireless Attacks Primer
In general, attacks on wireless networks fall into four basic categories: passive attacks, active attacks, man-in-the middle attacks, and jamming attacks. Let's review what these attacks mean on a wireless network.
Securing FTP with TLS
Reprint of the IETF document "draft-murray-auth-ftp-ssl-09.txt"
SSH: Using Secure Shell for Windows
In this article, we will look at Windows based Security tools that have always been heavily used on Unix based systems, and not used as often on Windows based systems.
Why is a firewall alone not enough? What are IDSes and why are they worth having?
Is a firewall the ultimate solution? Total reliance on the firewall tool, may provide a false sense of security. The firewall will not work alone (no matter how it is designed or implemented) as it is not a panacea. The firewall is simply one of many tools in a toolkit for IT security policy.
SSH
When I started using the Internet during my University days, an intelligent friend of mine told me that SSH is a client application needed to build up a secure connection with the University’s server. I took his word for it, but later my curiosity prompted me to ask a question “Why?”