Shenika Balfour

Reading Summary: Evasion

Organizations mostly use firewalls and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) to protect its network infrastructure. IPS is as an evasion technique used to detect any security attacks. […]

Reading Summary: Web Services

Web services is a tactic used to improve productivity in terms of increasing the speed and quality of information flow, as well as to make it easier for producers and consumers of […]

Reading Summary: SQL Injection

SQL injection is one of the most common vulnerabilities in web applications and that is why it is very crucial to test for vulnerabilities when one creates a website since it […]

Reading Summary: Web Application Hacking

Web application hacking is very common through client-submission of unexpected inputs. Knowing how to leverage such vulnerabilities is very important and yet challenging […]

Reading Summary: Malware

Malware infection is becoming very popular nowadays, ranging from Trojans, Backdoors, Zero-Days, Virus, Worms, and Polymorphic malware. Each organization has its way of handling such an […]

Reading Summary: Social Engineering

Social Engineering has become a powerful hacker technique that most organizations still ignore, if not, underestimate its true impact. This technique takes into advantage the […]

Reading Summary: NetCat

NetCat is a tool built by Hobbit and made available in a Windows platform by Weld Pond.  It is recommended to test the firewall and router configurations in a test environment and not […]

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Packet sniffing can exists in a switched or non-switched environment. Packet sniffing usually arises from an internal threat and it is shares the same concept as the man-in-the-middle attack […]

Reading Summary: Enumeration and Footprinting

The Enumeration process identifies valid user accounts or any weak component/resource. Some of the key areas of information include user and groups, network […]

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The enterprise often contains firewalls and an intrusion detection system (IDS) to keep the organization secure. However, that is not enough to detect vulnerabilities or web attacks on an […]