Amit Raj

During the torrent encryption, what information can be seen by the ISP?

According to https://torrentfreak.com/interview-with-bram-cohen-the-inventor-of-bittorrent/ The so-called ‘encryption’ of BitTorrent traffic isn’t really encryption, it’s obfuscation. It provides no anonymity whatsoever, and only temporarily evades traffic shaping. And: As I’ve said before, protocol encryption is at…

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Answered Jan 18, 2022 · 748 Views Read answer →

Can I learn penetration testing at home?

Free options are few, but there are tons of videos and tutorials on specific attack vectors or products/tools. They will NOT make you a Penetration Tester, but they are free learning resources to learn penetration testing. Some decent options to start you off:MetaSploit Unleashed: Learn an exploitation framework…

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Answered Jan 17, 2022 · 668 Views Read answer →

What does this famous article mean - "Smashing the stack for fun and profit"?

The holy grail of smashing the stack for fun and profit is to gain control of a pointer so that you can point it at the malicious code to be executed. There has to be an overflow in the program itself that is being exploited. In this example3.c the return can easily be controlled because it is a carefully crafted…

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Answered Jan 5, 2022 · 847 Views Read answer →

Does RAM store data so that it can be retained after removal?

This article analyses retention time for several DRAM chips. Among the relevant information to find the answer to does RAM store data, one may list the following: Retention time depends on a lot of things, including the values of neighbouring bits. A DRAM bit is a potential well, and it loses its contents by moving…

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Answered Jan 5, 2022 · 825 Views Read answer →

Name all the widely used infection vectors for personal computers.

I'm going to reproduce my answer to this question from my website, DecentSecurity.com You get tricked "But I'm too smart to get tricked." - You Being tricked isn't strictly related to intelligence. Most infection vectors are by people downloading and running the virus themselves. I've seen very smart, experienced…

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Answered Jan 4, 2022 · 751 Views Read answer →

I want to decrypt SHA256, Is it possible?

To know how to Decrypt SHA256, you must understand that it is not an encryption function but a hash function. The fundamental difference is that while encryption is a two way function (given the key) hash is only a one way function: given some data you can compute the hash, given the hash it is difficult (and…

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Answered Jan 4, 2022 · 8.9K Views Read answer →

In the settings of my computer system, the DNS Server is set on the loopback (127.0.0.1 dns), why is my windows desktop using a DNS server as localhost?

First, no, this is not default Windows behavior. Windows client operating systems do not ship with a 127.0.0.1 DNS server. (Windows Server-based operating systems do, but not desktop/client OSes.) Second, yes, you probably want to find out what service is listening on that port and take a much closer look at it. Step…

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Answered Jan 3, 2022 · 960 Views Read answer →

What are the most fruitful ways through which I can report ip address for hacking to the authorities?

Below are some tested ways to report ip address for hacking - If you want to report a dropper (or even second-stage) delivered as part of a drive-by download (even if it initially came from a phish or any other source), please use URLHaus. This site specializes in providing back to the community in several ways,…

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Answered Dec 31, 2021 · 1.1K Views Read answer →

What do I do now that I have opened spam email on Android?

Let's take a look at your scenario that you opened spam email on Android from the attack surface perspective and also suggest methods to mitigate as much as possible. First of all its a must to always keep your Android and Apps up to date with the latest version. For example, both Gmail App and the download component…

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Answered Dec 31, 2021 · 726 Views Read answer →

Explain how the 'Secure Desktop' mode in windows works?

As a quick primer to how Windows GUIs are built, basically everything runs through a function called CreateWindow() (I mean everything, every button, every menu, everything) and is given a hWnd or Window Handle. Modifying these Windows is done via another function, SendMessage(). Here's the catch. As a user mode…

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Answered Dec 29, 2021 · 1.6K Views Read answer →

How to jam motion sensor without triggering the alarm?

I wrote the security technical advisor to the movie Sneakers, Mr John Strauchs about how to jam motion sensor. Sneakers includes a scene where intruders increase the ambient temperature of the room in order to defeat the IR motion sensors. John wrote the technical details of that scene (including the purposeful…

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Answered Dec 27, 2021 · 19.1K Views Read answer →

can someone connect to my bluetooth without me knowing?

Let’s look at attack possibilities: When using Bluetooth headphones, I can think of the following attacks you might be concerned about:Traffic snooping (someone reading the data which is going over the connection, or just noticing that a connection exists at all - perhaps revealing that you're listening to something…

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Answered Dec 8, 2021 · 857 Views Read answer →