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A Summary of Avinash Kak’s Lecture Notes on Malware
Avinash Kak, in his lecture notes “Malware: Viruses and Worms“, aims to help a beginning students learn some of the basic concepts about malware. To accomplish this, Kak first starts out by describing...
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The Dictionary Attack – A Summary with Social Context Analysis
As the title suggests, in this post I will be summarizing information on the dictionary attack based on the lecture notes “Password Protected Systems and the Annoying Dictionary Attack” by Avinash Kak....
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Some Useful Links
Here are a two useful links: Avinash Kak’s Computer and Network Security Lecture Notes - I’ve already summarized and analyzed two sets of lecture notes from this set of notes for Kak’s course on...
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Summary and Analysis of “An Undetectable Computer Virus” by Chess and White
In An Undetectable Computer Virus the authors David M. Chess an Steve R. White expand on Cohen’s result that there is no algorithm that can perfectly detect all possible viruses by showing that there...
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The If Statement
In my previous post titled Summary and Analysis of “An Undetectable Computer Virus” by Chess and White I quoted and used something called pseudocode in order to help present the argument. I, like Chess...
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Summary and Analysis of an article on Cryptovirology
In “A Review Report on Cryptovirology and Cryptography” the authors Abidin, Kumar, and Tiwari give a brief introduction to Cryptovirology which is the study of the applications of Cryptography,...
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A Video Tutorial on Local Viruses
In the following video a YouTube user gives a tutorial on how to create a couple simple, local viruses for Windows Operating Systems with the virus code being written in Batch. By a local virus we mean...
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A Short Video Overview Of Stuxnet
The following video gives a short overview of the computer worm known as Stuxnet, which is the first (known) cyber weapon. This video does not go in to extreme detail about the worm but gives the...
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“Inside the Slammer Worm”– A Summary and Analysis
On Saturday, 25 January 2004, a worm so fast that human response time was useless started to infect machines. This worm is known as Slammer (or Sapphire) and it successfully infected more than 90...
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