Thomas over at De-ICE.net has launched a cool new project forming an open source community for pen testers called Hackerpedia. This is like all the many different types of wikipedias out there but this is hacker and pen test specific. The Hackerpedia project started from the De-ICE pen test LiveCD’s that Thomas created and the […]
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Some of you may have seen the new reality TV show on CourtTV over the holidays called “Tiger Team”. This show is about a team of penetration testers hired to break in to some high profile companies using some pretty cool techniques. While you won’t see anything technically earth shattering (as Grumpy Security Guy mentions),
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I came across a good interview with Johnny Long over on Computer Defense this morning. If you don’t know who Johnny Long is…well…he is pretty well known in the hacker and security community. More about him on his web site and by doing some Google searches (he wrote a very good book called “Google Hacking”
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Once again SANS has released it’s “Top 20” security risks for 2007. This is always a good report and I recommend all security professionals read it. This year they give highlight to two increasing attack vectors, users who are easily misled (aka: Social Engineering) and custom built web applications. Either of these should be of
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I have been trying to find a better way to manage passwords for web sites, application login’s, email, etc…I have been using OS X’s Keychain application for this in the past but I was concerned with the security of the application and the fact that I couldn’t move my password “database” to another non-OS X
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