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Apart from firewalls, which aim at protecting internal networks against attacks from the internet, web servers are the second important field requiring a high degree of …

This is the presentation that the Attrition staff presented at the BlackHat Briefings 2001. It shows how they managed their defacement mirror as well as the problems related …

This is the presentation from the BlackHat Briefings by Ivan Arce and Maximiliano Caceres. Download the presentation in PDF format here.

The article describes an attack on OpenPGP format, which leads to disclosure of the private signature keys of the DSA and RSA algorithms. The OpenPGP format is used in a …

This paper will attempt to describe techniques used to discover heavily filtered and firewalled hosts, that will not answer to standard PING responses. It is assumed that the …

On August 22-23, 2000, the CERT Coordination Center hosted a workshop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for twenty invited experts to address security issues related to ActiveX …

This White Paper gives an introduction to computer security and its significance for businesses, followed by an alphabetical guide to common security measures and threats. …

The following problem (as discussed in this paper) has not yet been identified. Certain firewalls today, will not authenticate the validity of certain protocol fields, within …

The law of Conservation of Flow, which states that an input must either be absorbed or sent on as an output (possibly with modification), is an attractive tool with which to …

New research confirms that corporations are spending more and more money on securing their digital information, but cybersecurity breaches continue to climb anyway. According …

This tutorial will give you a basic idea about quantum cryptography. Download the tutorial in ZIP format here.

Mail Abuse Prevention System, the Redwood City based anti-spam organization, says that it will vigorously defend the law suit filed by online market research giant Harris …