Expert analysis

In today’s world the protection of sensitive data is one of the most critical concerns for organizations and their customers. This, coupled with growing regulatory …

Historically the goal of security for most companies was nice and simple: keep the bad guys out. And it was easy to classify who the bad guys were. The bad guys were everyone …

Security incidents come in many forms, from attackers breaking into computers, unauthorized attempts to sniff wireless networks and collect information, and stolen laptops or …

Both Nitesh and Billy are well-known security researchers that have recently managed to infiltrate the phishing underground. What started as a simple examination of phishing …

Over the years much has been written about how users are the weakest link in security, and there are surely not many people who would disagree. Despite this, companies often …

Web 2.0 is an umbrella term coined to include technologies used for providing user-centric web based services. Here, the services are architected and programmed so that they …

Many network printers listen on port 9100 for a print job (RAW Printing or Direct IP printing). You can telnet directly to the printer port and enter text. Once you disconnect …

In densely populated urban areas WiFi routers form a tightly interconnected proximity network that can be exploited as a substrate for the spreading of malware able to launch …

Application source code scanning for vulnerability detection is an interesting challenge and relatively complex problem as well. There are several security issues which are …

Data encryption and key management in the real world Best practices dictate that we must protect sensitive data at the point of capture, as it’s transferred over the …

phpBB uses its own authorisation/session handling, database abstraction layer and template systems, so there are numerous guides on how to use them to create your own …

Saumil Shah is the founder and CEO of Net-Square. In this video, made at Black Hat, he presents an overview on what we can expect in 2008. Saumil bases his assessment on seven …