Astalavista.com, one of the popular hacking and security community website was completely defaced and destroyed by the Anti-Sec group on June 5th. In what so called as one of the most destructive attack of recent times, the Astalavista.com servers were not only hacked but completely ruined by deleting almost everything including backups from the backup […]
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Category: Hacking
Book of the Month : Hacking – The Art of
This may sound like another hacking book written to sell, but it is not. This is one such book where author has covered everything from tip to toe of vulnerability exploitation, a complex topic to comprehend, in a simple and practical way. At a top level this book covers the following topics from security arena… […]
FirePasswordViewer: Uncover Firefox Sign...
FirePasswordViewer is the GUI version of popular FirePassword tool designed to decrypt sign-on secrets stored by Firefox. Firefox records the login details such as username and password for every website authorized by the user and stores them in the sign-on database file in encrypted format. FirePasswordViewer tool can decrypt and display these secrets on the […]
SpyDLLRemover with Spyware Scanning Feat...
SpyDLLRemover is the standalone tool to effectively detect and delete spywares from the system. Now It comes with advanced spyware scanner which can quickly discovers hidden Rootkit processes as well suspicious/injected DLLs within all running processes. It not only performs sophisticated auto analysis on process DLLs but also displays them with various threat levels, which […]
Detecting Hidden Rootkit Services Using ...
AdvancedWinServiceManager is the Windows Service Management application which can uncover the services hidden by Rootkits. Services normally runs with ‘system’ account thus enabling them to perform higher privilege operations which otherwise cannot be performed by normal processes. Because of these advantages, malware applications often implement services to monitor and control the entire system. However as […]
Book of the Month – Fuzzing: Brute Force
Fuzzing is the most powerful and quick method to expose the security flaws in any product. In that direction, this is the first book which attempted to cover all aspects of fuzzing. Written by prominent authors who mastered this field, the book not only explains the fundamentals but rich with practical examples too. Authors start […]
Book of the Month : The Shellcoder’s Han
This is one of the best book written on most complex and interesting topics of computer security, ‘Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes’. It starts with explanation of different classes of security vulnerabilities such as stack overflows, heap overflows and format string bugs. Then it goes on describing the techniques to discover these flaws and then […]
Disabling Windows File Protection (SFC)
Lately I have been researching on Windows SFC (System File Checker) mechanism which is used to protect system files against accidental or deliberate modification. I have written about it in more detail as how this technique can be utilized to differentiate between system and normal components. Today while surfing on the net, I came across […]
HAKIN9 : Hardcore IT Security Magazine
Today I have received my first print copy of HAKIN9 magazine along with awesome T-Shirt. It is just amazing feeling to have stuff like this in my hands, its like mother holding her first baby. Hakin9 is the hardcore computer security magazine which exposes the top secrets straight from the field. Written by some of […]