Security Weekly News 1 April 2011 – Summary

I know it is April’s 1st but I am Spanish, don’t worry! 🙂 (we have the 28th of December for those things) Thanks to Tadek, John and Brian for contributing to this weekly security news bulletin! For the technically inclined I also put together the following this week: – iptables: white-listing TCP connections to reduce …

Security Weekly News 1 April 2011 – Full List

Category Index Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Software Updates Business Case for Security Network Security Web Technologies Privacy General Funny Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Comodo: two more resellers were compromised  [www.h-online.com] Comodo has confirmed that two other resellers have been compromised since the ‘Comodogate’ attacks which saw an attacker generate forged certificates for login.live.com, mail.google.com, www.google.com, …

Angry IP vs nmap

I recently got an interesting question via email: Hi Abraham, I was just wondering if you’ve ever used a tool called Angry IP scanner? Is it safe to use? Is there any risk of it crashing a host you are scanning? Regards, Short answer: Q: I was just wondering if you’ve ever used a tool …