Bogosec is essentially a tool for finding security vulnerabilities in source code. BogoSec aims to increase awareness regarding code security vulnerabilities, while encouraging developers to produce more secure code over time. By simplifying the code scanning process, BogoSec achieves a goal of allowing developers to scan their code regularly and more effectively. BogoSec is a […]
The Latest Countermeasures
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Anonymity – Hiding Your Identity in 2006
Introduction Anonymity is derived from the greek word ἀνωνυμία (anonymia), meaning without a name or name-less. In colloquial use, the term typically refers to a person, and often means that the Ppersonal identity, or personally identifiable information of that person is not known. The main question is of course, what are you trying to hide? […]
Browser Security Test – Check Your Browser NOW!
I know this is old, but a lot of people still don’t know about it. It can test for up to date Mozilla, Opera and Internet Explorer flaws, exploits and vulnerabilities. Browser vulnerabilities are a serious issue now. You can see which vulnerabilities they test for here and the statistics of the tests results here. […]
OSSEC HIDS – Open Source Host-based Intrusion System
OSSEC HIDS is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System. It performs log analysis, integrity checking, rootkit detection, time-based alerting and active response. It runs on most operating systems, including Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris and Windows. This is the first version offering native support for Windows (XP/2000/2003). It includes as well a new set of […]
Good Password Guidelines – How to Make a Strong/Secure Password
It’s common sense for most people on the hacking side of computer security as we know how easy it is to break a password when it’s only a few characters long or it uses a dictionary word (even if it is postfixed with a couple of digits, a hybrid dictionary attack breaks it pretty fast). […]
AJAX: Is your application secure enough?
Introduction We see it all around us, recently. Web applications get niftier by the day by utilising the various new techniques recently introduced in a few web-browsers, like I.E. and Firefox. One of those new techniques involves using Javascript. More specifically, the XmlHttpRequest-class, or object. Webmail applications use it to quickly update the list of […]