Expert analysis

There has been a lot of talk this year about the increasing sophistication of cybercrime threat – even going so far as to claim that virus creation has moved into the …

If you’re one among the millions of users of WordPress, and you really don’t have that much knowledge about what’s going on under the hood, your best bet to …

When evaluating an automated web application security tool, such as Acunetix WVS, the first two questions that typically one would ask are “Does this tool perform an …

Test your sites and web applications and perform a security assessment/audit of your work with these handy tools: 1. Tamper Data Use it to view and modify HTTP/HTTPS headers …

Dmitry Sklyarov is an IT security analyst at Elcomsoft. In this interview he discusses strong and insecure passwords, the compromise between usability and security as well as …

Gerald Combs works with the developers of WinPcap at CACE Technologies as the Director of Open Source Projects, and is the lead developer of Wireshark. In this interview, he …

Securing the DNS must be a priority because it is so central to the proper functioning of every IP network. Employing the best possible protections for the DNS will pay huge …

Spam in email traffic The amount of spam detected in email traffic averaged 86.3% in September 2009. A low of 83.3% was recorded on 18 September with a peak value of 91.3% …

The earliest public mention I could find of SQL injection (“piggybacking SQL statements’ as the author put it) was from someone who called himself Rain Forest …

Robert Abela is a Technical Manager at Acunetix and in this interview he discusses Web application attack vectors, the impact of Cross-Site Scripting, future threats and …

Kees Cook is the security engineer and Gerry Carr is the head of platform marketing at Canonical. In this interview they discuss the security improvements in Ubuntu 9.10, the …

One reader wrote in asking: “How can one practice social engineering before using it in the wild?” Answering is Chris “loganWHD” Hadnagy, the lead …