December 2008

What’s behind that short URL?

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There was a good post over at ThreatChaos the other day about a new Firefox extension which will automatically show you the real URL’s of shortened URL’s. What is URL shortening? For example…this long URL: http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=washington+dc&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.764224,56.25&ie=UTF8&ll=38.905996,-77.023773&spn=0.25915,0.439453&z=11&g=washington+dc&iwloc=addr becomes… http://tinyurl.com/9lum95 By using a service like Tinyurl or one of the many other sites available you can easily […]

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Notacon 6 Speaker Update

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Looks like the Notacon website has updated the speaker list and there looks to be some really good talks so far. Here is the list from the Notacon 6 website and blog post: Time To Replicate The Real Threat: Client Side Penetration Testing CG & g0ne Interactivity with Arduinos, Transducing the Physical World droops &

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Maltego 2.01 Released

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Looks like the fine folks over at Paterva have released version 2.01 of Maltego. If you don’t know what Maltego is…look here. Check out some of the changes and new features. From the announcement: Features: * Copy and paste to/from graphs * Copy and paste to/from text * Above can also function as “import” *

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