Update 01/08/2011: The videos are now up here. Thank you Tomasz! Update: Thanks to Jamie Duxbury (@w1bble) for hosting most of the pictures linked to from this page. I thought it was Soraya for some reason, sorry :). As I mentioned earlier: I was really honoured to attend BSides London and DC4420, aka Defcon London …
Thanks to Toby for contributing to this security news bulletin! I was honoured to attend BSides London and DC4420, aka Defcon London both of which were a blast this Wednesday and an obligatory blog post will follow hopefully this evening. Feedback and/or contributions to make this better are appreciated and welcome Highlighted quotes of the …
Category Index Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Software Updates Business Case for Security Web Technologies Network Security Database Security Mobile Security Privacy General Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Russian news reports that 20-year-old Ivan Kaspersky was kidnapped and his captors are demanding ransom [www.darkreading.com] [4/22/11 UPDATE: Russian media this morning are reporting that Ivan Kaspersky has …
Thanks to Shaun for contributing to this security news bulletin! Feedback and/or contributions to make this better are appreciated and welcome Highlighted quotes of the week: “Making connections is always easier when there’s alcohol involved” – Adam B. 😉 “Pretty much anyone can be breached at any time” – Jon Oltsik “Wonder if my Safari …
Category Index Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime Unpatched Vulnerabilities Software updates Business Case for Security Web Technologies Network Security Cloud Security Funny Hacking Incidents / Cybercrime RSA SecurID breach began with spear phishing attack [searchsecurity.techtarget.com] The assault against RSA, the security division of EMC Corp., began with two waves of spear phishing attacks using an …
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 …
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, …
NOTE: This will work in backtrack, ubuntu and pretty much any Linux distro as far as I know There are times where you would like to open a service to the internet and it is ok to only allow one host/IP address to connect to you, for example: – Host-to-host transactions – During a pentest …
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 …
Introduction When you setup the VNC server you can connect remotely with GUI access to Backtrack, for this reason, it is best to start the VNC server BEFORE you enter the GUI, that will save a little bit on resources such as RAM. The VNC server service will provide no encryption, so make sure you …
