If you are interested in using Twitter for information gathering/mining about potential targets for a penetration test or for “other” research…I highly recommend the very comprehensive article that Lenny Zeltser from SANS put together. Twitter is really becoming a great tool for not just marketing yourself or your business but also to find out detailed […]
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There was something shocking in my local suburban newspaper today. I opened up to page two and behold…an article that touched on information security! Specifically, the article was about how a small municipal court system in my area had a PC that was infected by an email “virus”. This virus caused a “hard drive to
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Late last week I was a guest on the Streetwise Security Zone Podcast talking about my Facebook Privacy & Security guide, social media security as well as some other interesting security topics. I highly recommend you check out some of the great things that Scott Wright has put together. He has built a security community
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Just a quick blog post about the latest release of Maltego that was just announced. This is great! You can now create custom transforms that will integrate directly with Maltego! This is something that many of us have requested and it’s finally here. From first glance it looks like you can code them in any
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I won’t beat a dead horse…we all know that Twitter had a few *security issues* this week. The good news is that usually once something like this happens to a company (especially one that gets so much media attention) things start to change and security gets taken a bit more seriously. Lets remember that Twitter
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Welcome to 2009! As many have said…it was just a matter of time before Twitter had a somewhat significant attack…well, here it is! I just had a post up last week about how many of us that use social media just blatantly trust every site that asks us for Twitter credentials. Well if you don’t
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