Null Probe

Today, I was working on a piece of SSL certificate & .pem generation with my colleague, when a naive looking HTML/TXT page having just some text content in it popped up a message Do you want to Open or Save this file when opened with MSIE. I thought it can [...]

DSCI (Data Security Council of India) has been established as an independent SRO (Self-Regulatory Organization) by NASSCOM, as an industry initiative to focus on best practices and standards for data protection. According to DSCI, its mission is stated as:
The Mission of DSCI is to create trustworthiness of Indian companies as global sourcing service providers, and [...]

Its been years since I am in a pit full of hacking news! I have seen serious crimes termed as ‘hack attempts’, breaches as ‘hacks’, opening a gadget as ‘hack’ or even thinking out of the box as ‘hacking’ the stereotype thought process. There are many definitions of hack but here is where the roots [...]

Bangalore or Bengaluru (Karnataka, IN), the IT Hub of India is well known for its growing number of IT industries and startups. In last decade Bangalore has made its name on the outsourcing map and IT industry so well that no wonder “bangalore” became an English word with a meaning. Western people who are [...]

The Blubster is a famous P2P music sharing client for Windows OS platform. Developed by Pablo Soto under the MP2P Technologies, Blubster follows Manolito protocol which is a fast UDP-based p2p (peer-to-peer) networking protocol for sharing mp3 and other music files. On the open source front, the OpenLITO project’s primary focus is on reversing the [...]

Hakin9 has come up with a new issue (4.2009) with a punch line of “MY ERP GOT HACKED!”. This issue has got some real good stuff to ponder:
1. Nokia’s Vow of Silence by: Tam Hanna Nokia’s smartphone platform series 60 has never been known for its safety. It brought us Nokia’s [...]

Since the day of mid March when an invitation for being a e-surakshIT speaker popped in my mailbox, it’s been a wonderful journey filled with curiosity and impatience! First the Hyderabad chapter (9th May 2009) and then the Bangalore (15th May 2009). Both events graced with the presence of esteem audience, participation of speakers [...]

China is very particular about Internet Censorship in lot many aspects. One such case is with Baidu Search Engine. If a ‘certain search’ is performed the Great Wall Firewall of China bans/blocks you from visiting Baidu for a small period of time (approx 2 mins). And, it can be reproduced via a simple test which [...]

Capture HPC is a powerful tool to collect malicious behavior by crawling the web, and checking the response from the sever. Here is a nice presentation by David Guan on “Identify Malicious URL using Capture HPC“. Basic, yet conveys the features and process. Enjoy!