Vivek Ramachandran is the Founder and Chief Trainer at SecurityTube.net. He discovered the Caffe Latte attack, broke WEP Cloaking, a WEP protection schema in 2007 publicly at DEF CON and conceptualized enterprise Wi-Fi Backdoors. He is also the author of the book “Backtrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing“. His book “The Metasploit Megaprimer” focused on Advanced […]
The U.S. Justice Department Charged Members of the Chinese Military with Conducting Cyber-Espionage against American Companies
AppSecEU 2014 invites you to join top security architects, developers, technology thought leaders, and executives from Fortune 500 firms to the OWASP AppSec Europe global conference in the beautiful city of Cambridge, UK from June 23-26 2014.
New Vulnerability Hits Internet Explorer
The “Heartbleed Bug” 101
It’s that time of year again, the 2nd annual HackMiami Conference is approaching, taking place May 9 – 11, 2014 at the Holiday Inn Oceanfront Hotel on Miami Beach, FL. Last year landed in Rolling Stone, who the hell knows what’s gonna happen this year.
On Monday, April 7, 2014, the information security community received news about a vulnerability in the OpenSSL (Open Secure Socket Layers) cryptographic library called the “Heartbleed” bug that can allow hackers the ability to collect passwords, credit cards numbers, private keys and other data on servers that operated the software.
I had the opportunity to review and conduct some interesting hands-on examples from Packt Publishing’s “Cuckoo Malware Analysis” by Digit Oktavianto and Iqbal Muhardianto. This book was divided into five intuitive chapters consisting of:
Support for Microsoft’s popular operating system, Windows XP will end on April 8, 2014, 12 years after it was introduced to PC users.
Over the weekend, and as of today at 11:00am EST, EC-Council, the organization famous for administering the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) as well as the Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator (CHFI) got hacked by an individual who claims to be a “certified unethical software security professional” going by the alias Eugene Belford. Eugene Belford was actually a character in the movie “Hackers” which came out in 1995 directed by Iain Softley as well as staring Angelina Jolie.
