Introduction Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are growing as a serious concern as they represent a threat to an organization’s intellectual property, financial assets and reputation. In some cases, these threats target critical infrastructure and government institutions, thereby threatening the country’s national security itself. The defensive tools and other controls are frequently rendered ineffective because the […]
From the year 2012-2025 ICAO(International civil aviation organization) have decided to transform the present aviation environment by introducing new technology which will revolutionize present aviation industry. According to ICAO, the technology responsible to do so is named NextGen (Next Generation Air Transportation System), which is developed by the United States and will be mandatory […]
Phishing sounds similar to fishing. Fishes are to the volume of internet users today much like fishermen are to phishers. Zillions of fishes falling prey the nets is nothing less compared to internet users being phished through their own in boxes and messengers. Phishers tend to have some personal favorites – personal information, credit cards […]
by Bhushan Shah, NII Consulting Mrs Carol L. Stimmel has taken upon her to start a Computer Forensic Volunteer Project to provide low-cost services to those who cannot assert advantage from our skills. Here is a bit taken from the press release:- “As expert members of the international computer forensics community which provides unique and […]
By Kush Wadhwa, NII Consulting Welcome to the world of log analysis. Log analysis plays a crucial role in intrusion detection. If the compromised system is running on Linux platform one of the first steps which the investigator will perform is the analysis of log files. Linux has an ability to store the logs of […]
by Chetan Gupta, NII Consulting A small experiment…Create a new text file. Edit it using Notepad and type “Hello” in it. save and exit the editor. Right click the file and check its properties. Did you notice the two attributes “Size” and “Size on disk”. It looks something like this on my Windows XP system […]
