An activity meant to understand the way a mechanism or system works. The study or examination of a security problem or class of security problems.
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Breaking into your own systems [closed]
So as security professionals, most are overly paranoid about external hackers, leaks, etc. I'm looking for ideas on how one would go about testing their own systems, without signs that they were ...
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Maltego transform samples
I'm playing around with Maltego for target recon and investigation, and have started writing my own transforms in Python. Unfortunately, the current developer documentation is a little light on ...
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Where can I find statistics on security breaches?
I am putting together a security presentation, and I would like statistics on the occurrence of and damages from security breaches. Does anyone know of a reliable, recently-updated source?
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Tutorials, Exercises and Environemnts for Penetration Testing Mobile Environments
I'm looking for a list of exercises or distributions to practice penetration testing on mobile environments. There are plenty of existing things like the environments found at pentesterlab.com and ...
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Opinons: To report or not to report? CFAA vs the White Hat [closed]
As I'm sure most people here are aware, there has been quite a lot of attention brought to the USA's Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) recently. Brief back story: A security researcher discovered ...
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where to get the latest trends about penetration testing systems? [closed]
I am an undergraduate student, who want to do a project in penetration testing automation, and i want a conference or some official source to obtain some latest researches from inorder to see what to ...
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applications of linear algebra to “security”?
I am taking a course in linear algebra which was to be credited towards a program in applied math. My interests have moved towards matters of "security" (information, network, cryptographic, etc.).
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How secure is Stack Exchange's reputation?
I recently read an article about researchers being able to penetrate the Facebook network and making lots of friends with about 100 "Social" bots. What would prevent somebody to do the same on Stack ...
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What security measures to have before openly allowing security researchers to hack your site
As some kind of a follow-up from my previous question - which was asked from the security researcher/penetration tester point of view:
(Thanks to Rory McCune for pointing this out) There seem to be a ...
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How to protect data on your hard disk if it is in an unfriendly environment?
The essence of the problem as follows:
There is a server located on the side of our company.
There is a hardware client module, which is in a public place, which communicates with the server via a ...
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What Twitter #hashtags apply to IT Security
I'm trying to search twitter for evidence of near-realtime alerts or updates regarding security issues.
What hashtags are common or popular in the IT Security world?
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Open Problems in Security?
I know it might seem a bit too much theoretical, but I was wondering if there was some list of known open problems in security?
In a similar way that there are open problems in Theoretical Computer ...
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References to issues of putting backdors into opensource (like OpenBSD) by FBI or CIA [closed]
There are articles on the Internet (e.g. this) that claim that the FBI/CIA injected security backdoors into OpenBSD.
I'd like to know if there are any other references to this issue. This would help ...
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Difference between vulnerabilities on windows/linux/mac for same program
If someone finds a vulnerability like buffer overflow in a program such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox running on a linux machine, are there any chances that this vulnerability will persist on ...
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What's the Security equivalent to SICP?
For those of you who don't know any developers and/or didn't go to MIT, The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is the Canonical reference on it's title subject. It is often used as the ...
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what is the use of stolen personal details?
What can hackers do with personal information that includes this: First name, last name, snail mail address, mobile phone number and email address?
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Encouraging security researchers to disclose vulnerabilities
What are approaches to forming solid relationships with security researchers?
For example, is publishing a public PGP key on the "contact us" page of a company's website for high levels of risk ...
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Vuln research: reverse engineering, debugging or fuzzing?
I wonder how hackers find vulnerabilities.
If they use fuzzing, security engineers do it, and it's probably that security engineers (that work in a firm) have more resources than a group of hackers.
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How does sound signature recognition work and how to override it?
Today a lot of websites that allow the upload of media content are implementing automatic sound signature checks to prevent the illegal distribution of videos containing copyrighted content.
How ...
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Are there state-of-the-art techniques or theory specifically for attacking passphrases over passwords?
With passphrases becoming more and more common based on length being more important than complexity, I'm assuming there must be some work going on involving techniques aimed specifically at cracking / ...
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Amount of simple operations that is safely out of reach for all humanity?
Cryptographic primitives usually assert some security level given as number of operations to mount an attack. Hash functions, for example, give different security levels for collision attacks, ...
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How do researchers “gain control of an attacking PC” and not themselves be considered attackers / criminals?
In reference to this Network Computing Report article titled "'Operation Shady Rat' Perpetrated Five Years Of Long-Term Attacks On Government, Enterprises"
The Cliff's Notes to the article is thus: ...
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Are there any independent organizations doing (publicly available) IT security research?
When looking up security risks on the net I find that all research being cited (if any is cited) always seems to come from the Anti-Malware companies. (just e.g., this article cites F-secure, AVG and ...
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NSA crypto Suite B - historical
I'm looking for information on what NSA suggested for use in commercial systems in past times. 90's and early 2000's.
I'm mainly interested in PKI and symmetric cyphers for SSL and file/disk ...
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Definition of Software Security
I'm looking for a theoretical definition of Software Security. And I need to quote some book in an article.
Most of the books starts already assuming that the user knows what that is, and they're ...
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Resources for data on security incidents
What resources exist to research data on actual security incidents?
I would prefer an online resource but offline resources are acceptable. The cost of access should be less than $100 (US) for ...
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Design proposals for enhanced security for parts of Internet, e.g. for banking?
There is some recent discussion of some sort of "multilevel" internet, with e.g. a level defined for banking in which access is only granted after special authentication with "true names", special ...
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Applications of probability/statistics in IT security?
What are some areas of computer security that utilizes statistical modeling? I ask b/c I'm a studying statistics at school and have become interested after reading a few papers.. some of the areas ...
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Profiling attackers via adaptive games: “Strange game, the only winning move is not to play”
Use of Game Design to Profile Attackers:
Interested in any research that links concepts in game design to security systems in an effort to profile the attacker's identity, motives, skills, etc.; if ...
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Suggestion setting up a SQL injection honeypot
I just stumbled on a website vulnerable to an SQL injection attack by mistake ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6181248/is-this-site-vulnerable-to-an-sql-injection-attack ).
That made me curious ...
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Recommendations for honeypot software
A couple of us wanted to setup a honeypot/honeynet with the goal of learning; not planned to be in a production environment. What's a good recommendation for a high interaction or low interaction ...
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Resources for physical security questions
What are good resources for the physical security questions that IT organizations face? Like best practices for locks and seals on servers and kiosks, personnel access mechanisms and policies, ...
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Some good resources on viruses/worms?
I am searching good info on sophisticated viruses/worms. One example would be STUXNET and the very good analysis made by folks from Symantec. Any ideas?
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CEH resources for exam prep
For an upcoming contract I'm required to have the CEH certification (even though there won't be much PenTesting) so I'm working through that now. I've gone through all of the reccomended EC Council ...
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Where are some Security Policies that are actually in use?
I know there are a lot of security policy samples and templates out in the web. I'm curious to know if there are security policies that are actually in use and still published publicly. I know they ...
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Master thesis topic - mod_security
I've been playing with mod_security for some time and I'd like somehow to use it in my master thesis. I don't know exactly how this work could be more interesting than describing what mod_security ...
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How to get into RFID auditing?
I would like to get more knowledge around RFID-systems auditing.
Does anyone have a basic guide step-by-step which I can use to set up a lab with proper RFID "sniffing" equipment?
I would like to ...
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Security papers or material focusing on the industrial control systems (SCADA)
Anyone know a good site or a list of resource to start to know issue related to the security of SCADA system ?
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What do you see as the emerging threats for 2011
As we move in to the new year, what do you see as the emerging threats for organisational security?
I see more chat around;
Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) from foreign states.
More fines from the ...
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Video Conference Systems - Security Testing
Any one have any experience in testing ISDN based VC systems?
What approach did you take, tools used? How did you approach fuzzing the protocol?
What resources did you read up on prior to testing?
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War dial research
Anyone know of any specific UK Law that would prevent the use of war dialling as part of a security research project?
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which site do you use to view details of vulnerabilities?
Which site/sites do you guys use to view details of security vulnerabilities?
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SSH Brute Force Dictionaries
Request for logs please.
So, I had an interesting question posed to me around geographical trends in SSH brute force attempts. The question being "has anybody ever looked into the prevalent SSH ...
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What are the biggest unsolved problems in IT Security?
Just recently I thought about all the solved problems in IT security, like XSS (which one can mitigate with input validation), SQL Injection (mitigated with prepared statements), etc.
Now I'm ...
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Malwares source repositories. Where?
As the best way to learn is to read the code, do you know where I can find malware/virus/whatever source code to read?
