The Power of Social Engineering
In this Youtube video you will see how a skilled hacker can exploit our social vulnerabilities and tap into our human system to reveal sensitive information and infiltrate our digital life. Tagged:...
View ArticleCellular Networks SS7 Design Flaws Exploited to Hack Facebook Logins
The Short Story In short, your Facebook account, and most probably other accounts (Google, Twitter, etc…) can be hacked, no matter how strong and complex your password is. As if social engineering 2FA...
View ArticleBeware from Social Engineering Two-Factor Authentication
Various tech giants data breaches were reported lately, with millions of accounts passwords and information being leaked (ex: Twitter, LinkedIn, Email Service Giants, etc…) as if this is not bad news...
View ArticleTracked by Chrome Extensions
So what’s going on? briefly, if you use Google Chrome as your main browser and extend its functionality with some of its many available extensions then you might be susceptible to behavioral tracking....
View ArticleVulnerable LastPass – Vault Cracked
Memorizing an N number of passwords (N representing your different passwords) proved to be a burden and hectic task to achieve. This fact is one of the biggest reasons behind the fact that many of us...
View ArticleAcceptance of Friendly-Good Computer Worms Security Architectures- Survey
Hello fellow academics, colleagues and specialists, As a part of my MSc in Computer Security at the University of Liverpool, I am researching the applicability and acceptance level of the...
View ArticleTaking Advantage of Google’s Services to Obfuscate Spammers Phishy URL’s
Obfuscating phishy and “shady” URLs, as Warner called them in his Blog post, is nothing new. We’ve been witnessing various mutated techniques from spammers attempting to obfuscate their real intentions...
View ArticleIncreased Phishing Threats with Obfuscation
We’ve talked about being a phishing victim before and how to protect ourselves, yet as everything evolves and mutate, new techniques are always implemented, and used to increase the probability of...
View ArticleGetting Started With Memory Forensics
Memory forensics/analysis is an interesting playground in the security and digital forensics investigation area, it consists of acquiring and analyzing the image of a volatile running computer memory....
View ArticleKentico How To: Custom Filter Control In CMSDesk Listing Mode
In a recent Kentico project I was asked for some custom filtering options to the CMSDesk listing page of specific document types, allowing users to filter the documents based on specific fields of the...
View ArticleThe Routers Backdoors Trend
It appears that one of the latest focus lately is turning into routers back-doors, and several were found leaving networks open to unauthorized access and control. Reminds me of the saying: Be very...
View ArticleStop Turning into a Phishing Victim
I am sure that all of us receive countless phishing emails in various forms, some disguising as being sent from our bank, or other services we have registered to. Others are requesting us to confirm...
View ArticleAdminister Passwords With KeePass
You hate passwords right? Just a little bit especially when it comes to creating complex ones that are (supposedly) hard to break and at the same time easy to remember otherwise you won’t be able to...
View Article15 Deals Worth 10000$ As a Startup Pack for Geeks Only
As a great initiative for newly young startups, Startup PACK is introducing a second of its kind giveaway pack, focused for developers only, bundled with great services and freebies worth around...
View ArticleRefresh Your JScript
Couple of weeks ago Sebastian from the Scientific Ocean Blog published a review about a great new programming learning platform called Codecademy, he described the platform format, teaching techniques,...
View ArticleModel Threats with STRIDE and DREAD
Who can deny the importance of security in virtually every task we try to achieve nowadays, digital or not? Security is increasingly becoming the most important, sensitive and complex topic to cover...
View ArticlePhotocopiers A Digital Goldmine Waiting To Be Exploited
Digital Privacy as I mentioned in my previous post has many questions and assumptions around it, in addition to that it is not only threatened on the internet, yet more dangerously in locations that we...
View ArticleDigital Privacy: Is It Real?
Our digital privacy, if we may call it, is getting a lot of attention, reviews, argument, etc… Many users are freaking out fearing for their personal and private information not to be exposed to the...
View Article5 Important Steps For Better Computer Security
Can We Really Achieve Security Nowadays? Well many claim that this can be done, yet I believe that we cannot reach the 100% target unless we unplug our devices from the network and lock it probably in...
View ArticleBe very glad that your PC is insecure
Be very glad that your PC is insecure – it means that after you buy it, you can break into it and install whatever software you want. What YOU want, not what Sony or Warner or AOL wants. And that was...
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