Collaborate Disseminate
I saw this question which discussed teaching Information Security as a mandatory course, with a focus on Computer Science discipline.
I have a different challenge at hand. I want to create an Information Security course whic… Continue reading ‘Open course’ Information Security Topics
I have a strong background in IT (Sys Admin/Network Admin etc.) with plenty of experience in both. I’ve reached a stage in my career where I want a change, and security is something that has always been of interest to me. Unf… Continue reading Starting a career in security
Our University recently had a case where some notorious fellows used a fake emailing service to send an email to all students on behalf of the administration. Although most good email services (like Gmail?) can warn us that the mail is lik… Continue reading How do fake emailers work?
Stuxnet and others in this list of state-of-the-art Internet worms had certain features that they were very stealthy in leaking out the information they harvested. Thus it managed to go under the radar and would typically go … Continue reading How could malware like Stuxnet be detected?
I have been trying to hack around with Apex DirectConnect. What I wish to do is to utilize the querying nature of P2P apps like DC to generate a DDoS attack (see links for reference here, here and here).
To quote from one of the references… Continue reading Creating a DDoS attack using DirectConnect
Some time back I asked about using metasploit on a virtual machine here. This question is a kind of ‘part 2’ of it.
My testbed set up consists of 3 physical machines: A, B and C. Each of them have 1 or 2 VMs running on them, each VM runnin… Continue reading Physical machines not detected when scanning from a VM
I am beginning to learn Metasploit and, to play safe, am practicing it out on a virtual machine.
The target machine, which is a virtual machine, is under NATing. How do I access it/ connect to it- from within the same netwo… Continue reading Obtaining the IP address of a virtual machine to use Metasploit