(ISC)2® (“ISC-squared”), the world’s largest information security professional body and administrators of the CISSP®, announced the honorees for its seventh annualAsia-Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievements (ISLA) Program.
(ISC)2 will recognize the honorees and announce three showcased workforce initiatives and a community service star special recognition at a Gala Dinner and Ceremony sponsored by Microsoft on 8 August, 2013, in Manila, Philippines.
The Guest of Honor, Honorable Jejomar C. Binay, vice president of the Republic of the Philippines, together with (ISC)2 executives, will celebrate the workforce achievements of top information security professionals from Asia-Pacific.
Part of (ISC)2′s global Awards Program, ISLA aims to recognize the on-going commitment by information security leaders in Asia-Pacific who have significantly enhanced the workforce by demonstrating a leadership role in an information security workforce improvement initiative, program or project.
28 Professionals were nominated in three distinct categories:
- Managerial Professional for Information Security Project(s),
- Senior Information Security Professional, and
- Information Security Practitioner.
Pakistani professionals have yet again proved their mettle on international platform with their superlative performance.
One of the selected honoree Mr. Talha Habib is CISSP, CISA, CISM certified professional. He is also a board member of Pakistan Information Security Association (PISA) which is an NGO working for drafting Cyber Security Policy of Pakistan.
Mr. Talha has been selected as President ISOC Islamabad Chapter. He is also a member of other international forums like ISACA and (ISC)2 for their local chapters. He is selected in the category of Information Security Practitioner.
Mr. Nadeem Dogar is another Pakistani selected as honoree at Asia-Pasific ISLA. He is General Manager, of Ora-Tech & MIT which is a well reputed name in Pakistani whole IT sphere. He carries a vast experience in Banking and IT industry. He had been heading leading banks as Senior and Executive Vice President.
Mr. Nadeem has been selected for Senior Information Security Professional category.
It’s not the first time that Pakistani Professionals have competed with international talent. Pakistan is blessed with talented young lot who can do wonders if provided chance.
January 13, 2014
Memory or RAM
Scraping Malware :
RAM
Scrapping Attack is one of the Dangerous attack that scrap memory to read important secure Data from
memory. It read Credit card Information from user browser prior processing. It
Capture Data from RAM. These useful Information keep secure data encrypted but
Memory Scraping keep eye on weak areas to read the Data however.
A RAM
Scraper is a piece of malware designed to scrap valuable Information like
Credit card , Pin and other valuable information .It never detected on server.The
scraper dump data into dumper.dll in window system subdirectory where it waited
for retrieval access by the scraper’s owner who had back door access.RAM
scrapper enter into the system that are not protected sufficiently. Ran Scrapper
are also using innocuous file extensions, and attaching themselves to
legitimate processes and services.
It is very hard to process Encrypted data , If you want to
process Data you must need to Decrypt it so Bad Guys take advantage of it . In
very simple words Scraping memory mean scanning memory of the running web
server while the page or Data is in process and extract data while it is in
processed(in unencrypted state) .
Goudie said that how easy it is to farm credit card numbers,
this is just one application of how RAM scraping could be used.Any type of
Information like name , emails phone number that can be search over internet
can be pulled out easily by Ram scraper.
RAM scraper scour the Credit
card Data when it keep on server as Clear, it uploaded to the server which
later on theft by the hackers.