Ali Abbas

For the last few days, there has been a buzzing news in the community, following the recent discovery of a so-called information leak in the skype SDK. zhovner@github, published a python code sample “exploiting this vulnerability” https://github.com/zhovner/Skype-iplookup/ using a de-obfuscated SDK and published a demo site @http://skype-ip-finder.tk/. More related information on the skype-open-source project can [...]

Sock Stress is a new type of Denial of Service which was developed by Jack C. Louis. According to nmap creator Fyodor, the attacker sends a TCP SYN packet to a targeted port, but first by making sure that a firewall protects his own machine as to prevent it to interfere with the attack process. [...]