Social engineering reloadedThe purpose of this article is to go beyond the basics and explore how social engineering, employed as technology, has evolved over the past few years. A case study of a typical Fortune 1000 company will be discussed, putting emphasis on the importance of education about social engineering for every corporate security program. 2006-03-14 http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1860 
Zero to IPSec in 4 minutesThis short article looks at how to get a fully functional IPSec VPN up and running between two fresh OpenBSD installations in about four minutes flat. 2006-02-28 http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859 
Sebek 3: tracking the attackers, part twoThe second article in this honeypot series discusses best practices for deploying Sebek 3 inside a GenIII honepot, and shows how to patch Sebek to watch all the attacker's activities in real-time. 2006-02-13 http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1858 
Malicious Malware: attacking the attackers, part 2This article explores measures to attack those malicious attackers who seek to harm our legitimate systems. The proactive use of exploits and bot networks that fight other bot networks, along with social engineering and attacker techniques are all discussed in an ethical manner. Part two of two. 2006-02-02 http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1857
Malicious Malware: attacking the attackers, part 1This article explores measures to attack those malicious attackers who seek to harm our legitimate systems. The proactive use of exploits and bot networks that fight other bot networks, along with social engineering and attacker techniques are all discussed in an ethical manner. Part one of two. 2006-01-31 http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1856
Sebek 3: tracking the attackers, part oneThe first of this two-part series will discuss what Sebek is and what makes it so interesting, first by looking at the new capabilities of version 3 and how it integrates with GenIII Honeynet infrastructures. 2006-01-16 http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1855 
Windows rootkits of 2005, part threeThe third and final article in this series explores five different rootkit detection techniques used to discover Windows rootkit deployments. Additionally, nine different tools designed for administrators are discussed. 2006-01-05 http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1854 
Demystifying Denial-Of-Service attacks, part oneThis paper provides an introduction to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, their methodologies, common prevention techniques, and how they differ from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks. This article is intended to be a broad overview for the beginner or intermediate-level administrator on the different types of DoS attacks. 2005-12-14 http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1853
Evading NIDS, revisitedThis article looks at some of the most popular IDS evasion attack techniques, based on fragmentation or using the TTL field. Snort's configuration and response to these attacks will also be discussed. 2005-12-06 http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1852
Windows rootkits of 2005, part twoThis three-part article series looks at Windows rootkits indepth. Part two focuses on the latest cutting edge rootkit technologies that are used to hide malicious code from security scanners. 2005-11-17 http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1851 |
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