Want to easily know when every security related conference takes place world wide this year? I just found a great Google Calendar that lists all of these events in one easy to view calendar. I am a big fan of Google Calendar and adding this to a existing Google Calendar is really easy. You can […]
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If you happened to miss Defcon 15 last year or if you were there and have wanted to catch up on presentations you may have missed…the audio and video podcasts are available for download through two RSS feeds. Great for listening on your iPod, iPhone, or PSP! Subscribe below: Defcon 15 Audio RSS Link Defcon
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Did you know that you can order free identity theft materials from the Federal Trade Commission? The FTC has a really good program called “Deter, Detect, Defend” to help educate the public about identity theft. They offer free bulk orders of pamphlets, handouts, and other paraphernalia to distribute to your company, friends, family, etc…great if
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Big news from the TrueCrypt Foundation yesterday…the new version of TrueCrypt (v5.0) supports full disk encryption and/or encryption of the system partition using pre-boot authentication. In addition, Mac OS X support was added and a GUI interface for the Linux version is now included. From the TrueCrypt web site: “TrueCrypt can on-the-fly encrypt a system
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The fine folks over at GNUCITIZEN are organizing a router hacking challenge which begins now and apparently through February 29th. The key here is that you need to hack your own router (ie: home dsl/cable router) and disclose any vulnerabilities that you find either via GNUCITIZEN, the sla.ckers forum or at hackerwebzine[at]gmail[dot]com. Why are they
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Confused about all the different homebrew firmware that is available for the PSP? Want to know the history behind the homebrew community? Then you need to read this article which gives a great introduction to PSP homebrew.
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Interesting post over on Slashdot yesterday on what the best practices are for documenting processes and procedures. While this is a general problem in IT, I thought that it would be worth to note that documentation is a major part of what pen testers and security professionals do. From the pen testing side I require
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Lots of talk on the net recently about the first “critical” vulnerability (MS08-001) released by Microsoft this year. If exploited, this vulnerability can allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on a remote system bypassing personal firewalls and in the case of Vista, the kernel protection mechanisms. Note that one caveat to this is that
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HD Moore has released the latest version of the venerable Metasploit Framework over the weekend. Version 3.1 includes the following updates and improvements: “The latest version features a graphical user interface, full support for the Windows platform, and over 450 modules, including 265 remote exploits…” This is a significant improvement for the Windows version and
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Perhaps not if your one of 80,000 web sites that display the small green logo proclaiming your web site is “Hacker Safe”. I recently read two good articles one on Dark Reading and the other in the Computerworld mag that I get. While I understand that this is a marketing persons dream..promote your site as
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