My WordPress Site Has Been Hacked

The statistics for my WordPress photo blog show over 51,000 visits. The blog presents part of my unconventional journey through a collection of pictures of my work during two years of sabbatical. It includes images relating to the Printemps Érable in 2012, the election of Pauline Marois as the first female Prime Minister of Quebec,…

User Behavior Analytics: Leveraging Hadoop and MapReduce to Detect Security Threats during a Web Session

  Abstract. A web session is associated with a user in order to keep track of who the user is and what privileges he/she has in a given application [1]. This association is created after the authentication mechanism and, in the vast majority of today’s applications, usernames and passwords are used. The session exists until…

Attack Vectors Finder Project: A White Box Approach

Abstract. The Attack Vectors Finder project provides a methodology to assess the security posture of an application using a hybrid security testing approach. To facilitate the white box part of the assessment, a prototype of a web-based tool has been created that includes a questionnaire whose information provides a comprehensive view of the attack surface,…