Shorter pieces for trade and academic journals.
Getting Started with Ghidra: The Software Reverse Engineering Tool from the NSA
A walkthrough of Ghidra, the NSA's free reverse engineering tool, including recovering a password from a compiled binary.
Read PDF ↗Drone Hacking: Mirai in the Sky?
Security issues in commercial and recreational drones, and whether drone hacking could scale into a Mirai-style botnet attack.
Read PDF ↗Building Information Security Professionals
On the different paths into the security field, whether through experience, formal education, or a blend of both, and how to build toward a security career.
Read PDF ↗Advanced Persistent Threat: Attacker Sophistication Continues to Grow?
What APT is, whether it's a real threat or a buzzword, and practical measures for mitigating it.
Read PDF ↗Data Mining as a Tool for Security
How data mining techniques apply to security, from anomaly detection to pattern-based threat identification.
Read PDF ↗The Impact of Data Disclosure
How data gets disclosed and exploited, both organizationally and individually, and how to mitigate the fallout.
Read PDF ↗Reverse Turing Testing with CAPTCHA
The history and mechanics of CAPTCHA, how it gets defeated, and what that back-and-forth has driven in AI research.
Read PDF ↗Challenges in Hardening Data against Recovery
A methodology for analyzing permanent data removal, and where data-hardening technology was headed.
Read PDF ↗Secure Data Deletion and Recovery
Why permanently deleting data is harder than it looks, how deleted data gets recovered, and how to prevent that recovery.
Read PDF ↗802.11 Wireless Networks
An overview of the 802.11 wireless standard, its variants, and the security considerations around early Wi-Fi deployment.
Read PDF ↗IPv6: The Next Internet Protocol
The motivations, history, and design behind IPv6, and what its eventual deployment would mean for the internet.
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