All pages tagged with hids
What You Don't See On Your Hard Drive
This paper will address two security concerns that I found very interesting. They both have to do with things that are not in plain sight. The first security concern covers ...
Written by: Brian Kuepper and added on Jan. 10, 2011The security risks and ways to decrease vulnerabilities in a 802.11b wireless environment
<font size="3"><b>Introduction</b></font><br></br><br> This document explains topics relating to wireless networks. The main topics discussed include, what type of vulnerabilities exist today in 802.11 networks and ways that you can help ...
Written by: Richard Johnson and added on May 6, 2011Linux Data Hiding and Recovery
Just when you thought your data was removed forever, Anton Chuvakin shows us how to recover data and even how data can surruptitiously be hidden within space on the filesystem.
Document added on Jan. 8, 2011The Dark Side of NTFS (MicrosoftÂ’s Scarlet Letter)
Admins & users know very little about a feature of the NTFS file system called 'alternate data streams' (ADSs). This paper describes in detail how ADSs are created and manipulated, ...
Written by: H. Carvey and added on Feb. 28, 2011Steganography
Sensitive messages hidden in data files; methods and examples.
Written by: Charles Hornat and added on April 22, 2011Hiding an Intrusion Detection System, A Theoretical Discussion on How to Play 'Hide 'N Go Peek'
This paper discusses the caveats of enplacement of an IDS environment, and what companies are doing about it. Discussion over what may be one (of many) possible method of "hiding" ...
Document added on Feb. 14, 2011Detecting Intrusions with your Firewall Log and OsHids
In this article we are going to talk about one of the basics, but powerful, methods of Intrusion Detection: Firewall's Log analysis. Although a firewall generates a lot of log, ...
Written by: Daniel B. Cid and added on Jan. 27, 2011Infectable Objects Part Four - Viruses in Archive Files and Compressed Files
No matter how quickly the speed of the Internet increases, we still find it convenient to compress files before we send them. Once a file is compressed, however, it becomes ...
Document added on April 25, 2011An Analysis of Simile
Virus writers have always tried to develop new methods to make malware detection more difficult. For instance, encryption was a natural step in virus evolution when scanners started to use ...
Document added on Jan. 28, 2011Digital Media Forensics
The area of digital media forensics is not just the art of finding deleted or hidden data; it is also the understanding of the underlying technologies behind the various tools ...
Document added on Feb. 9, 2011