Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 There are few job titles as misleading as that of the "Penetration Tester." Sure, saying professional computer hacker would be more direct, but have you ever noticed how hackers seem to have a dirty mind? Why else would they want to go phreaking through backdoors?Anyway, in order for hackers to ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Just over 4% of all Web sites are dangerous, according to a new report. But all bad sites aren’t created equal: Cyber bad guys are more likely to build their sites where it’s easy to do so.The report out today from McAfee, a tech-security company that’s trying to position itself ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 If you're a quasi-sophisticated Mac user and have been looking for advice on how to better safeguard your machine from hackers or local prying eyes, look no further: Apple has released a massive, 240-page guide that describes various methods for securing the operating system.According to SecurityFocus.com, the manual includes an ...
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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
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Friday, May 30th, 2008 Windows only: When you dig up that old Outlook PST (Personal Folders) file from years ago you cleverly secured with a hard-to-guess password—and now you can't guess it—you want PstPassword. Turns out that Outlook passwords aren't that difficult to figure out, because this handy utility detects the PST's on your ...
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