The answer to - What is the difference between social engineering and reverse social engineering is that - Reverse social engineering is a form of social engineering. We can say all reverse social engineering attacks are a social engineering attack. A reverse social engineering attack is where an attacker makes…
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Answered Mar 28, 2022
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The answer to your question - Someone used my email for Facebook is - In Facebook it's possible to create an account with another person's email, but your account is still unverified until you use one of the verification methods (phone, another email). The account can even be activated/verified if the real owner of…
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Answered Mar 25, 2022
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[IP Fragmented Packet] IP fragmentation attacks are rather old fashioned ones. Your logs show that an attacker has been attempting a denial-of-service (DoS) attack. Note that CheckPoint Firewall-1 was vulnerable to such attacks in its previous versions.[TCP- or UDP-based Port Scan] That is port scanning. In stealth…
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Answered Mar 25, 2022
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No, https://www.google.com/webhp is it malicious. From what I've looked into, it's rather widespread, and seen on PCs that have no indication of infection. If you open Chrome and go to chrome://settings/searchEngines, you'll see the Query URL for Google. It'll probably look like "{google:baseURL}webhp/". If it was…
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Answered Mar 23, 2022
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Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) is a technology used to help prevent shellcode from being successful. It does this by randomly offsetting the location of modules and certain in-memory structures. Data Execution Prevention (DEP) prevents certain memory sectors, e.g. the stack, from being executed. When…
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Answered Mar 23, 2022
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From their product page, we can infer a lot about how the 'Browser in the box' system works. Here are the key points: Can be used with Windows XP and Windows 7 Comes with: VirtualBox 4.0.16, hardened Linux Debian 6 and SELinux and Firefox Browser execution takes place in separated virtual machine with own operating…
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Answered Mar 23, 2022
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I assume that you have checked in the Task Manager for any unexpected applications and terminated them regarding cpmofferconvert? Assuming Windows 10, also check the Start-up tab of task manager and remove any suspicious entries. You also need to remove the unwanted add ons/extensions that the malware has added to…
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Answered Mar 22, 2022
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You can detect the screen capture malware by monitoring free space (very easy) or file writes (not that easy). The screenshots must be stored somewhere so files will have to stack up to a not-so-obvious location. This is the method I used, and I managed to locate and eliminate a multi-logger just by using a simple…
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Answered Mar 21, 2022
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No. To create an ZIP encrypted file (insecurely since the password is echoed): $ cd -- "$(mktemp --directory)" $ echo secret > 1.txt $ echo super secret > 2.txt $ zip -e -P dIg4BuOTFh secret.zip 1.txt 2.txt adding: 1.txt (stored 0%) adding: 2.txt (stored 0%) To find out which files are included: $ unzip -l secret.zip…
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Answered Mar 17, 2022
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For extracting certificate from TLS server, you should pick the domain of one MX record from the answer section of your DNS query and feed it to openssl: $ dig gmail.com mx [...] ;; ANSWER SECTION:gmail.com. 3599 IN MX 20 alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. gmail.com. 3599 IN MX 5 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. gmail.com.…
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Answered Mar 16, 2022
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Is veracrypt safe can be answered as VeraCrypt offers the possibility of full disk encryption, the aim being to protect all your file system from unauthorised access. Even if the process depends on a password and is theoretically brute-forcible, this does not mean that the attack will be successful in a reasonable…
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Answered Mar 16, 2022
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To understand how to spoof your IP address, it would essentially be akin to replacing the numbers on your house from "123 Real Avenue" to "321 Fake Street" - the mailman isn't going to start delivering you someone else's mail, because regardless of what it says on your door, the house is physically on "Real Avenue".…
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Answered Mar 14, 2022
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