Analyses of Malware Files

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PURPOSE

The main goal of laboratory report is to identify three analyses of malware files from the
archive file send by the lecture. The archive contains 89 malware files. The way how we
choice 3 files is by following algorithm:
1. Soft them by name
2. First use last number of your student code + your birthday day
3. Second, generate random number from http://www.random.org/ and only if it does not match first number use it for choosing the file
4. Third, use random number generator again and if it does not match first or second
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IP Responsibility and abuse reporting procedure

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PURPOSE

The main goal of laboratory report is to identify the responsibilities for the IP addresses
below and how we can make connection to them. IP addresses are randomly chosen by
the lecture.
IP addresses:
1. 69.163.171.238
2. 31.44.184.101
3. 188.72.228.69
External IP that is used for purpose of this test is following: 193.40.244.0/255 1. Continue reading →

Script Kiddie

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PURPOSE & SCENARIO

The goal of this laboratory test is to make effort to attack server and to deface website.
Here is the scenario: your client is worried about some stuff posted on a blog. They ask You to take care of it. They have a throwaway “script kiddie”[Script kiddie] in a third world country, who will mount the attack so You don’t need to worry about hiding the attackers identity.
Therefore, we need to devise a way to attack wordpress (default installation) based
site to render it unusable (page view times over 60 seconds). Attack resources: one PC with Microsoft Windows XP, a script kiddie, internet connection of 2Mbit/s. In addition, server has to stay down for two days and script kiddie has up to 1 day to set up the attack. Continue reading →

Cost of DDoS, leak of credit card numbers, infected machine and spam

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PURPOSE

The main goal of laboratory report is to identify the costs of nowadays most known attack  DDOS, leak of credit card numbers, infected machine and never the less sending spam for 1 000 000 (one million) people. There are few points that should be presented:

  • Where did we discovered the information (links or sources)
  • What kind of source of communication we used, for instance: instant messing, ICQ, IRC, which contact we have gather the information
  • What are the prices for the above attacks. Continue reading →

WordPress CMS acceleration and optamization

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PURPOSE

The goal of this laboratory test is to evaluate speed-up solution for already mounted clean, by default wordpress CMS platform. The measures were made by custom script for Linux operating system, in our case the server side is Ubuntu server 10.04 LTS running on 32 bit system with 512MB Ram and testing platform Fedora 14 for more details see section appendixes.

The laboratory task is to assist anyone else to be able to perform optimization in easy meaner to their blog, homepage, magazine, etc. without any advantage of technical knowledge. Continue reading →

New design, layout, homepage

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I usually do not write this kind of posts, but this week I’m suppress. I have received and anonymous e-mail on morning Saturday from fellow student, with the following content:

from: xxx [at] gmail.com

subject: contact from web

date: 23/09/2011 10:47pm

The design and layout of your homepage are horrid. Please do something about it.

Cheers.
(and if you're good at IT you can trace this message:))
Fellow student from TTÜ.

After reading above e-mail, I started to think how many friends, collages, family, scholars, etc. have been told me that my homepage design, layout, fonts, colors, etc. it is horrible, hard to navigate, unreadable, etc. Continue reading →

Password Attacks and Generation Strategies

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Password Attacks and Generation Strategy

Abstract

Nowadays, attacking the passwords is one of the most straightforward attack vectors, which authorize access to information system. There are numerous feasible methods, attempt to guess or crack passwords, with a different methods, approaches and tools. This paper analyzes the possibilities of using the tools and gives an example of how to accomplish the password guesses in different methods with tests which can be demonstrated together with comparison of input dictionary lists. The overall service to the follower is to insure for the potential needs: preventing password cracking, information security audit, password recovery, security policy etc.

Keywords:

Password attacks, password generation, dictionary generation, dictionary password attacks, rainbow tables, brute force

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Influence of Virtual life

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Influence of Virtual life (second life)

Authors: Predrag Tasevski, Marco Gavazzi and Lasse Hyyrynen

Introduction

Any computer user who is engaged in a virtual world has a virtual life. Virtual life is a catchall term used to describe the involvement and presence of an individual in any chosen virtual world or simulated digital environment. Virtual world is a genre of online community that often takes the form of a computer-based simulated environment, through which users can interact with one another and use and create objects. And virtual community is a social network of individuals who interact through specific media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals. Therefore, we have choose this problem as an issue of the general drastically grow of the population of having access to the computers and Internet. Continue reading →

Future of human communication

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Future of human communication

On the basis of how the communication possibilities have changed (for) most people during last decades, what’s my idea of the normal human interaction in 10..20…50 years?

To understand the present we must first understand the past. The Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing before. The invention of the telegraph, telephone, radio, and computer set the stage for this unprecedented integration of capabilities. The Internet is at once a world-wide broadcasting capability, a mechanism for information dissemination, and a medium for collaboration and interaction between individuals and their computers without regard for geographic location. Continue reading →

Digital divide or not?

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Digital divide or not?

Is there a psychological “digital divide”? Are people who often use the Internet psychologically different from those who do not and in what ways?

The Internet is changing the average citizens as much as did other technologies, for instance: telephone, TV, computers, mobile phones etc. The mainly province was to help the science, engineering, and business. Many scholars, technologists, and social critics believe that these changes and the Internet, in particular, are transforming economic and social life (Robert , Micheal, Vicki, Sara, Tridas , & William , 1998). Continue reading →