Author: Secure Ideas

Ethics of Ethical Hacking

Ethics of Ethical Hacking

Ethical hacking uses the principles and techniques of hackers to help businesses protect their infrastructure and information......
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Ransomware and Scareware Pop ups

Ransomware and Scareware Pop-ups

Every computer owner has had the heart-stopping moment where a popup comes up and says that your computer has been infected....
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Ransomware Intelligence Briefing

Ransomware Intelligence Briefing

Ransomware Intelligence Briefing Media reporting on the WannaCry ransomware campaign has contained exaggeration, bad information, and fear tactics....
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SQLMap Beginnings: What and How

SQLMap Beginnings: What and How

Testing web based applications is not only fun but is often multi-faceted and challenging. Often times a web front end will have places for data...
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Reversing Type 7 Cisco Passwords

Reversing Type 7 Cisco Passwords

While working on a recent pen test, I came across a few Cisco routers sitting on an internal network......
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Patching binaries with Backdoor Factory

Downloaded binary files from the Internet or grabbed one off of a network share that is used by your organization to store commonly used software?...
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SQLite: the good, the bad, the embedded database

SQLite is an embedded, open-source, lightweight SQL database engine. The C based library is transactional, self-contained, and highly compact....
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Thumb Drives.. Can you tell the difference?

During a physical penetration test, it is not uncommon for the tester to drop usb thumb drives out in the parking lot or someplace within...
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Logging Like a Lumber Jack

Turn on any news outlet or visit any news site and you will most likely see an announcement of yet another data breach....
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Policy Gap Analysis: Filling the Gaps

In the business world there are policies that define how employees should present themselves as well as how company equipment can be used....
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