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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Classic social engineering at it’s best…a professional thief (or thieves) apparently got away with over 2 million in rare art and jewelry. Pretty much sounds like a movie scenario! From the CBC article: “Four hours before the break-in on May 23, two or three key surveillance cameras at the Museum of Anthropology mysteriously went off-line.
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Interesting story that hit the wire last week about another bank security breach. This time 1st Source Bank of South Bend Indiana became the next victim of stolen debit card data. Not a ton of details have emerged yet but we do know the following: 1. A external monitoring service (an MSSP perhaps?) or hired
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You probably have read about the interesting Comcast domain hijack that took very little technical skill a few weeks ago. Apparently these two hackers were able to social engineer their way to obtain access to the Comcast domain registration account that is being managed by Network Solutions. Once they had access they apparently changed the
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I have been doing lots of research over the last few months on online social networking sites to prepare for an upcoming talk that I am going to be giving on the latest threats to social networks…in particular MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn. Tonight I received new friend request from someone named “Elysabeth” in my email.
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