There is a community, some common culture consisting of experienced programmers and network magicians, history of which is traced back to the first minicomputers with time division and the earliest experiments with the net ARPAnet. Members of this culture gave the birth to the term ‘hacker’. Hackers developed Internet. Hackers made the operation system Unix, they support Usenet. Hackers provide the work of World Wide Web.
Hacker’s view on the world is not limited by the culture of hacker-programmers. Continue reading →
By Jamy Klein, MSIA, CISSP
According to Panda Labs over 25 million new pieces of malware were released into the wild in 2009. 2010 is expected to be even worse. In addition to sheer volume, malware is becoming more sophisticated and targeted as a result of the influx of organized crime and state sponsors into the realm of malware authoring. Due to this unsavory trend, the SANS Institute has developed a course, Reverse-Engineering Malware: Malware Analysis Tools and Techniques AKA FORENSICS 610 Continue reading →
As a social engineer, you spend all of your time manipulating people’s brains. Yet most of the social engineers I meet don’t know the difference between the amygdala and the cerebral cortex.
And you need to.
So this article is going to give you a quick trip through the human brain.
The brain isn’t just a single organism – it’s truly a three-part entity known as the triune brain. The idea of the triune brain was first proposed by Paul MacLean (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_D._MacLean). Continue reading →
Win SANS Security Training Worth $3500!!SANS vLive! (http://www.sans.org/info/61178) leverages webcast flexibility and the latest online technology to enhance students’ learning experience. SANS vLive! live Webcasts are scheduled once or twice a week for 3 hours, depending on course requirements, and feature Elluminate Live!™, a collaboration of realtime, interactive online tools to bring quality security education direct to your desktop. So what does that mean? There’s not just a flashy online Continue reading →
