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Living with threats

1st August 2010 Back in 2004, Bill Gates predicted that spam would be a thing of the past within two years. As we all know now, and quite a lot of people predicted at the time, far from being a solved problem, the volume of spam has continued to increase. Read More

Web application security goes from bad to worse in many sectors

27th July 2010 NTA Monitor's 2010 Annual Web Application Security Report analysed the data gathered from web application security tests performed for a wide range of industry sectors over a 12-month period... Read More

IT Managers get to grips with Internet security issues

4th May 2010 According to NTA Monitor's 2010 Annual Security Report, the average number of Internet security vulnerabilities afflicting organisations has fallen.. Read More

Responsible Patching

1st January 2010 Microsoft's response to the "zero day" exploit that was used in the cyber attacks against Google shows that software vendors still have a lot to learn when it comes to responding to vulnerabilities. Read More

Annotated tcpdump packet trace on victim system

# Server:20 -< Victim:9876 TCP Handshake

15:30:21.239401 194.217.26.147.20 > 195.102.193.28.9876: S 3843992171:3843992171(0)
15:30:21.239460 195.102.193.28.9876 > 194.217.26.147.20: S 2747175943:2747175943(0) ack 3843992172 15:30:21.399317 194.217.26.147.20 > 195.102.193.28.9876: . ack 1

# Server-< Victim Directory listing

15:30:21.429315 194.217.26.147.20 > 195.102.193.28.9876: P 1:70(69) ack 1 15:30:21.429531 195.102.193.28.9876 > 194.217.26.147.20: . ack 70

# TCP Shutdown

15:30:21.429327 194.217.26.147.20 > 195.102.193.28.9876: F 70:70(0) ack 1 15:30:21.429601 195.102.193.28.9876 > 194.217.26.147.20: . ack 71 15:30:21.670203 195.102.193.28.9876 > 194.217.26.147.20: R 1:1(0) ack 71 --