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  2. Havex - Wikipedia

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    The Havex malware was discovered by cybersecurity researchers at F-Secure and Symantec and reported by ICS-CERT utilizing information from both of these firms in 2013. [4] [5] The ICS-CERT Alert reported analyzing a new malware campaign targeting ICS equipment via several attack vectors and using OPC to conduct reconnaissance on industrial equipment on the target network.

  3. Attack vector - Wikipedia

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    In computer security, an attack vector is a specific path, method, or scenario that can be exploited to break into an IT system, thus compromising its security. The term was derived from the corresponding notion of vector in biology. An attack vector may be exploited manually, automatically, or through a combination of manual and automatic ...

  4. Defensive programming - Wikipedia

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    Example 3: legacy code may have been targeted for offline machines, but becomes vulnerable once network connectivity is added. Legacy code is not written with new problems in mind. For example, source code written in 1990 is likely to be prone to many code injection vulnerabilities, because most such problems were not widely understood at that ...

  5. How to spot 'spear phishing', an insidious cybercrime trend - AOL

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    Cyber criminals are getting savvier, with a trend called "spear phishing". Here’s how to tease out a legit email from a fake. Cyber criminals are getting savvier, with a trend called "spear ...

  6. Trampoline (computing) - Wikipedia

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    As used in some Lisp implementations, a trampoline is a loop that iteratively invokes thunk-returning functions (continuation-passing style).A single trampoline suffices to express all control transfers of a program; a program so expressed is trampolined, or in trampolined style; converting a program to trampolined style is trampolining.

  7. Attack patterns - Wikipedia

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    Sample Attack Code; If it is possible to demonstrate the exploit code, this section provides a location to store the demonstration code. In some cases, such as a Denial of Service attack, specific code may not be possible. However, in Overflow, and Cross Site Scripting type attacks, sample code would be very useful. Existing Exploits

  8. Threat model - Wikipedia

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    OWASP pytm is a Pythonic framework for threat modeling and the first Threat-Model-as-Code tool: The system is first defined in Python using the elements and properties described in the pytm framework. Based on this definition, pytm can generate a Data Flow Diagram (DFD), a Sequence Diagram and most important of all, threats to the system. [25]

  9. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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    Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail, if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail, if it's an important account email. If you get an ...