Friday, June 20th, 2008
It’s not rocket science, but any time we mingle and intertwine four or five different pieces of technology, there’s always the potential for a mess… or at least a misconfiguration or two along the way. Don’t know what 802.1X is? Check out the recent 802.1X technology primer.
If you’re planning to, ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Here is a list of new security tools that were released in the past week.
SQL Ninja 0.2.3 - SQL server injection and takeover tool
fgdump 2.1.0 - Tool for mass password auditing of windows systems
AxBan 1.0.0.4 - ActiveX killbit program
Nmap 4.65 - Network port scanner
Nessus 3.2.1 - Vulnerability assessment tool
Immunity Debugger ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
The OSWA-Assistant is a no-Operating-System-required standalone toolkit which is solely focused on wireless auditing. As a result, in addition to the usual WiFi (802.11) auditing tools, it also covers Bluetooth and RFID auditing. Using the toolkit is as easy as popping it into your computer’s CDROM and making your computer ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
The videos from ShmooCon 2008 have hit the shelves. Go download them at:
http://www.shmoocon.org/2008/videos/
EDIT: As of the time of this post, some of the videos are incorrectly named. Here is the 1-> 1:
Correctly Named:
21st Century Shellcode for Solaris
Advanced Protocol Fuzzing - What We Learned when Bringing Layer2 Logic to SPIKE land
Backtrack ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Ars Technica's original Wireless Security Blackpaper was first published back in 2002, and in the intervening years, it has been a great reference for getting the technical lowdown on different wireless security protocols. As a sequel to the original blackpaper, we wanted to do something a little more basic and ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
I am pretty sure that there are a number of you out there reading this blog over a wireless network. Given that wireless is so widely distributed these days, its not uncommon that users are unaware of how insecure their wireless setup maybe.
Unfortunately one other reality is that a number ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Wi-Fu! More than just a statement, it reflects you wireless security skill set from knowledge and practical experience. This covers everything from using the tools out there to profile and attack your wireless network, to checking the security of your client devices yourself. If you feel your Wi-Foo is slipping, ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Scott Rolf knows trouble when he sees it. An IT director for a law firm near Cleveland, Ohio, Rolf was asked by a friend to check out the new Web site the friend had put up on a DSL-connected Web server. Rolf did more than just visit his friend's site; ...
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