Social Engineering

The purpose of this text is to introduce or better explain the art of social engineering. This is one of the most difficult things to explain but I found a rather easy method …

Internet privacy: What are the issues?

It’s Saturday morning and you hop on the Net looking for some info on smoking related illnesses ‘cuz your best friend’s been thinking of quitting lately and …

Spam: The problems with junk e-mail

We all get junk mail at home. It’s an accepted fact of life, at least in the U.S. So why is Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) – a/k/a “spam” or …

Assessing IIS Configuration Remotely

This document will look at the relatively unsung skill of assessing the in-depth configuration of a Microsoft IIS web server remotely, showing how to “read” server …

Understanding Security

What is security? Process, procedures, and tools that assure data can be stored reliability and retrieved by those authorised users… Download the paper in PPT format here.

HTML Form Protocol Attack

This paper describes how some HTML browsers can be tricked through the use of HTML forms into sending more or less arbitrary data to any TCP port. This can be used to send …

Installation of a Secure Web Server

Apart from firewalls, which aim at protecting internal networks against attacks from the internet, web servers are the second important field requiring a high degree of …

BlackHat 2001 Attrition Slide Presenation

This is the presentation that the Attrition staff presented at the BlackHat Briefings 2001. It shows how they managed their defacement mirror as well as the problems related …