- Web Security Researching Malicious Websites: A Few Tips
Malicious sites evade researchers by checking User-Agent and Referer headers, computing redirects via JavaScript, using nonces, and denylisting IPs. Bypass these defenses by faking browser headers,...
- Malware Analyzing Suspicious PDF Files With PDF Stream Dumper
PDF Stream Dumper is a free Windows tool with GUI for analyzing suspicious PDFs. It scans for known exploits, navigates object structures, decodes streams, and includes a JavaScript interpreter for...
- Leadership 5 Bad Habits of Cybersecurity Professionals
Activity doesn't guarantee progress. Security teams keep falling into five habits that look productive, but leave our programs no stronger than before.
- Malware Computer Threats Evolve Towards Focused, Nimble Tactics
Modern intrusions increasingly use well-planned, nimble, focused strategies rather than brute-force attacks alone. Attackers study business inner-workings to locate valuable data—scraping card...
- Social Engineering Attackers Are Attracted to Email Like Flies to Honey
Email contains business plans, credentials, and sensitive data that attackers harvest after compromising systems—either from local PST files or directly from Exchange servers. Mitigations include...
- Incident Response Tips for Starting a Security Incident Response Program
Create a hierarchy of incident response documents: brief executive-level policy, detailed procedures for technical managers, and guidelines/checklists for responders. Keep them succinct using bullet...