Hacking

If you are in the Cleveland, Ohio area you should check out the local con called Notacon. Similar to Defcon or ShmooCon but much smaller and in my opinion more unique. From the Notacon web site: “NOTACON, an annual conference held in Cleveland, Ohio, explores and showcases technologies, philosophy and creativity often overlooked at other […]

If you have been checking out Quzart’s QedShell v2.0 article and want to know more about PHP file include attacks and how they work…be sure to check out this fantastic four part series about these attacks on TippingPoint’s DV Labs blog. I have yet to find a more comprehensive article on this subject.

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

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

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

GNUCITIZEN posted more information and a good FAQ about the dangers of UPnP and the Flash UPnP attack that they describe.

Very good article over at GNUCITIZEN (as always) about what UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) is and how hackable it can be (some quite scary stuff actually). More and more devices are UPnP compatible nowadays, for example, the PS3 and Xbox 360 can be a media server client and use UPnP. Also, most home wireless

Just saw this posted on a blog…Trinity should be moved up to 1st place! She used nmap to find a vulnerable SSH server! Leah Culver – Top 5 Female Hackers in Film History Someone should put together a TV show “Top 5 Female Hackers”..my vote for #1 is Chloe O’Brian from 24.

Thomas over at De-ICE.net has launched a cool new project forming an open source community for pen testers called Hackerpedia. This is like all the many different types of wikipedias out there but this is hacker and pen test specific. The Hackerpedia project started from the De-ICE pen test LiveCD’s that Thomas created and the

I came across a good interview with Johnny Long over on Computer Defense this morning. If you don’t know who Johnny Long is…well…he is pretty well known in the hacker and security community. More about him on his web site and by doing some Google searches (he wrote a very good book called “Google Hacking”