Cyber Attacks Explained: Network Sniffing
In earlier articles in this series, we have explored denial of service attacks and packet spoofing. This month, let us focus on a wider hacking approach called network sniffing, which is very commonly…
Securing Apache, Part 9: Attacks that Target PHP-based Instances
Beginning with Part 1 of this series, we have covered all major attacks on Web applications and servers, with examples of vulnerable PHP code. In this article, we will cover those attacks that…
Aircrack-ng: Wi-Fi Troubleshooting, Auditing and Cracking Made Easy
Wi-Fi technology has today become almost ubiquitous for wireless local area networks at offices, restaurants, homes, airports, hotels, etc. However, with increased Wi-Fi usage and awareness, hackers (or, rather, crackers) are exploiting the…
The Importance of Intrusion Prevention Systems
In today’s fast-changing IT world, even the best available security is insufficient for the latest vulnerabilities in various products, and against malware/attacks created to target those vulnerabilities. While cyber-security cannot be 100 per…
Secure Upload Methods in PHP
Here’s how to deal with file upload attacks against sites developed in PHP, and how to write more secure code to prevent these attacks. In most Web applications, developers provide upload file functionality…
Cryptography and Steganography with Python
Steganography and cryptography have been widely used to hide sensitive information. This article offers a brief introduction to how both these methods can be used together. The implementation uses Python with the Stepic…
June 15, 2013
Wesam Alalem — it would be better to use whitelist than blacklist, i.e:
$whitelist = array(".jpg", ".png", ".gif",);
and allow only these types
Thank you....
June 15, 2013
Ovidiu — None of these solutions work to recover a single file.
All of them are using the disk image..so you are going...
June 14, 2013
Marjan — There is an error in source! You should not allocate buffer globally. Microchip FSUSB demo board did not work by...
June 13, 2013
SID — I would like to add something here.
In latest Ubuntu and the kernel higher than v3 you will not find...
June 13, 2013
Charuhas — Are you smart than fifth grader?? Read again.. Kids aged 5 are using and if you are a student of...
