A "botnet" consists of a network of compromised computers controlled by an attacker ("botmaster"). Recently botnets have become the root cause of many Internet ...
Attackers take advantage of any security breach to penetrate an organisation perimeter and exploit hosts as stepping stones to reach valuable assets, deeper in the network. The exp...
Virginia N. L. Franqueira, Raul H. C. Lopes, Pasca...
Active operating system fingerprinting is the process of actively determining a target network system’s underlying operating system type and characteristics by probing the targ...
Fedor V. Yarochkin, Ofir Arkin, Meder Kydyraliev, ...
The Mifare Classic is the most widely used contactless smartcard on the market. The stream cipher CRYPTO1 used by the Classic has recently been reverse engineered and serious atta...
Flavio D. Garcia, Peter van Rossum, Roel Verdult, ...
In February 2002, more than 50 leaders in the information assurance field warned the President of the United States of a national strategic vulnerability in the country’s inform...