The following whitepapers and presentations have been developed by PENETRATIONTEST.com cconsultants for a variety of purposes.

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Downloadable Whitepapers and Presentations

Offensive Operations Model — The model all our work is based on. This is an old copy. A new version with updated information will be uploaded shortly.

Web Hacking Presentation — Ever wondered how those baddie hackers read top secret government and military documents without getting caught? This Power Point presentation, developed for Internet World Spring (Los Angeles) and Internet World Fall (New York), was presented by Karsten Johansson.

Cisco Security Presentation — They thought it couldn't be done. Our Internet World presentation about Layer-3 Security on Layer-2 Cisco Switches.

Summary and Full Manuscript of “Computer Viruses — The Technology and Evolution of an Artificial Life Form” written by Karsten Johansson in 1994. This was probably the most thorough document on computer viruses of the pre-commercial Internet era ever. Warning – the full manuscript is almost 270 pages.

Michelangelo Virus — This is our disassembly of the famous Michelangelo virus. It's really a varient of the STONED virus, making it one of the more uninteresting viruses out there. Not according to the media of the day though!

DOS 7C Virus — This is our disassembly of the DOS 7 virus. Lots of anti-debug and obfuscation in here for die-hard assembly programmers. This virus won't work on 486+ computers, but we include it here because the techniques used are quite interesting.

Byte Code Substitution — Some ideas developed in the early 90's to improve on what the polymorphic encryption engines were doing. This is probably useful to those studying steganography, and will likely be of interest to technical programmers only.

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