Looks like GNUCITIZEN and Blogsecurity.net have joined forces to create a online WordPress security scanner. From GNUCITIZEN: “Blogsecurify was created to help individuals and organization to secure their blog infrastructures by testing them against a set of security tests. The project is still in alpha stage although I am quite happy with the actual framework […]
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I am writing this blog post as part of the Black Hat Bloggers Network topic of interest #2. I guess you could say I am somewhat of a Black Hat n00b! This will only be the second time I have attended Black Hat in my security career. I have been to quite a few security
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This is a story that keeps getting more interesting… I have been closely following the news that I blogged about last week regarding 1st Source bank of Indiana that fell victim to a pretty serious security breach. 1st Source ended up reissuing their entire credit card portfolio to their customer base. The latest news is
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Via the Emergent Chaos blog… If you follow physical security and specifically the “Locksport” community you might be interested in the open letter by Peter Field (chief architect of Medeco products) stating that Medeco (a big high security lock manufacturer) is embracing the Locksport community. This is huge news considering that lock manufacturers in general
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I’m sure you have already read this on other blogs…however, if you didn’t get the news yet…Backtrack 3 has been officially released last week on the PaulDotCom show. I know myself and others have been using the beta and have been looking forward to this final release. Here are some highlights as posted by Max
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After several months of work the team of Matt, Dave, Tyler, and myself finally went live with our first podcast called Security Justice a few days ago. Let me tell you…getting a podcast up and running was no easy task but it finally paid off. Special thanks to Dave for getting the mixer, microphones, software
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Last night I gave a talk at the Northeast Ohio Information Security Forum called “Online Social Networks: 5 threats and 5 ways to use them safely”. I spent the last few months doing research on various social networks specifically MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn. Many of us either use these sites or know others that do. Users
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Just a heads up for all you Mac fanboys/girls…Apple has recently released massive (240 pages each) security configuration guides for Panther (10.3), Tiger (10.4), and Leopard (10.5). Note the warning from Apple if you are a n00b Mac user: “To use these guides, you should be an experienced Mac OS X user, be familiar with
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Hack a Day posted a cool tutorial today on how to make your own RGB combination door lock. What is this monstrosity of geekness? Think Star Trek, Star Wars or any other science fiction movie with scenes of cool blinky lights! Now you too can secure your man room, computer lab or whatever and really
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If you have been reading my blog and others in the Security Bloggers Network recently then hopefully you should know about the really cool alliance this year between Black Hat and the Security Bloggers Network. If not, here is a quick and dirty overview… Basically, there will be a Black Hat topic of the week
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