Good article over at Linux.com about how to secure your Linux laptop from a physical and data perspective (including hard disk encryption). I usually see a ton of articles about how to secure Windows and Mac laptops but not a lot on Linux. From the article: “There are three problems with having a computer stolen: […]
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Just saw this on Richard Bejtlich’s blog… “I (Richard) contacted several PR reps at TruTV and asked about Tiger Team’s future. One of them wrote back: Thank you for your email and interest in Tiger Team. Tiger Team was a special and likely won’t be returning. Please let me know if I can assist you
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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.
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Interesting post about a viral router attack…with so many unencrypted wireless access points (including ones with WEP) this is seeming more and more like a future possibility. From the article: “Historically, the vast majority of trojans, worms, and viruses have targeted the (Windows) PC. Attack and propagation methods may have grown more sophisticated, but the
Saw this on Digg today…this is a must read! A security researcher, Benjamin Googins from CA, discovered that the Sears/Kmart “community” web site installs extremely dangerous spyware. From the researchers blog post: “Sears.com is distributing spyware that tracks all your Internet usage – including banking logins, email, and all other forms of Internet usage –
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I was wondering when someone was going to finally hack the Wii! Well it seems that it has finally been done…at least partially. The hack demonstration apparently took place at 24C3 (24th Annual Chaos Communication Congress) last week. The hackers demonstrated a way to run native Wii homebrew (not in GameCube mode) that even includes
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Just wanted to drop a quick note and say thanks to all the readers and subscribers of the spylogic.net blog! 2007 was the first year that I really put some effort into the blog and it is now starting to take off. Hopefully things will continue to progress in 2008…updating the blog can be challenging
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
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Some of you may have seen the new reality TV show on CourtTV over the holidays called “Tiger Team”. This show is about a team of penetration testers hired to break in to some high profile companies using some pretty cool techniques. While you won’t see anything technically earth shattering (as Grumpy Security Guy mentions),
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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”
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