Publications

Hacker Factor Solutions provides whitepapers and journal articles. Most documents are created and provided privately to customers. The following list represents a sample of documents created by Hacker Factor Solutions and released publicly. The copyrights for these documents have been transfered to their respective owners.

Books

• Neal Krawetz, (2015) "Digital Photo Forensics" in the Handbook of Digital Imaging, edited by M. Kriss. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, pp. 1641-1674.
• Ubuntu: Powerful Hacks and Customizations by Neal Krawetz, Wiley (April 19, 2010). ISBN 0-47058-988-4.
• Hacking Ubuntu: Serious Hacks Mods and Customizations by Neal Krawetz, Wiley, ExtremeTech series, 2007. ISBN 0-470-10872-X.
• Introduction to Network Security by Neal Krawetz, Charles River Media, 2006. ISBN 1-58450-464-1.

Articles

• Online Impersonations: No Validation Required. Security Focus, April 2007.
• Laptop Losses and Phishing Fruit Salad. Security Focus, February 2007.
• Anti-Spam Solutions and Security, Part I and Part II. Security Focus, February and March 2004.
• "Anti-Honeypot Technology". IEEE Security and Privacy, January-February 2004 (Vol.2, No.1).
• Banking Scam Revealed. Security Focus, November 2003.

White papers

• Response to the Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Infermation Administration Request for Comment on Internet of Things (RFC No. 160331306-6306-01). Neal Krawetz, Eric Schultz, Valerie Kaminski, Bill Tucker, et al., May 2016.
• Response to the Department of Commerce Request for Comment on Cybersecurity in the Digital Ecosystem (RFC No. 150312253-5253-01). Dr. Neal Krawetz, Hacker Factor Solutions, May 2015.
• A Picture's Worth: Digital Image Analysis. Dr. Neal Krawetz, Hacker Factor Solutions, February 2008. Presented at the Black Hat Briefings 2008.
• A Picture's Worth: Digital Image Analysis and Forensics. Dr. Neal Krawetz, Hacker Factor Solutions, August 2007. Presented at the Black Hat Briefings 2007.
• Point-of-Sale Vulnerabilities. Dr. Neal Krawetz, Hacker Factor Solutions, August 2007. Originally provided as a limited distribution document in April 2006, this document describes fundamental flaws in the point-of-sale architecture for credit card processing. Following the limited release of this paper, Visa USA Inc. released three Data Security Alerts that cover some of the issues raised in this paper and includes questions similar to the ones found at the end of the paper. Copies of the alerts were mirrored from Chase Paymentech: June 2006, July 2006, and August 2006. These alerts do not cover all of the vulnerabilities discussed in this paper.
• Who is "n3td3v"?. Hacker Factor Solutions, October 2006.
• A Guide to Building Secure Web Applications and Web Services. Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), June 2005. Dr. Krawetz from Hacker Factor assisted with the document and wrote a section for the document.
• Anti-Phishing: Page Encoding. Hacker Factor, April 2005.