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How to sniff local network traffic on an unrooted Android device

Google Play hosts a number of applications that focus on local network traffic sniffing for Android devices, but for the majority of them you would first need to root the …

Video: Malware Management Framework

You can throw lots of time and money at scanning your systems for unknown malware, but the reality is that you will only identify a small portion of the bad stuff. Changing …

Customizing defense models to reduce the window of exposure

Most organizations already have a defense model in place that is meant to protect them from attacks, but the problem is that many use an outdated one. But the threat landscape …

Lessons learned from sinkholing the ZeroAccess botnet

ZeroAccess (or Sirefef) is a piece of malware that is very adept at hiding its existence from users, and brings in huge sums of money to its masters by performing click-fraud …

Python for web application security professionals

Python is an open source, interactive, object oriented programming language. It’s very easy to learn and an extremely powerful high level language. It runs on Windows, …

Video: Hacking back and active defense

In this DerbyCon video, John Strand will demonstrate the Active Defense Harbinger Distribution, a DARPA funded, free Active Defense virtual machine. He will debunk many of the …

Solving the dilemma of vulnerability exploitation disclosure

The subject of software and hardware vulnerability disclosure has been debate time and time again, and most agree that, if possible, vulnerabilities should first be disclosed …

WordPress security threats, protection tips and tricks

Robert Abela is a WordPress Security Professional and founder of WP White Security. In this interview he talks about the main WordPress security risks, offers tips for website …

Video: Antivirus evasion techniques

This video from DerbyCon discusses the basics of the AV evasion problem, what techniques work, which ones don’t and why. The talk has a particular focus on AV evasion as …

Strengths and weaknesses of MS SmartScreen filter

Microsoft’s SmartScreen application control feature, introduced with Internet Explorer 8 and lately ported to Windows 8 is a good addition to the new OS. It might …

Analyzing APK files inside an online Android application sandbox

Anubis is an online project developed by International Secure Systems Lab, which focuses on analyzing of binaries for different type of systems. The online sandbox was first …

Best practices for threat management

With threats of all types on the rise and increasing costs of security breaches growing (analyst approximate $840,000 per breach), enterprises are investing in numerous threat …

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