Monday, September 28th, 2009 To combat worms, Trojans and other malware, a team of security researchers wants to use ants.Not the actual live insects, of course, but computer programs modelled to act like ants in the way they roam a network and search for anomalies. "Ants aren't intelligent," says Glenn Fink, a senior research ...
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 D-Link have announced new CAPTCHA security for selected models in their router range, promising more resilience against DNS-altering malware and spyware. The new firmware - which is also available to upgrade on existing models - adds the familiar distorted letters and numbers to common router settings pages.By changing the DNS ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 This is it! After many months of effort from the Remote Exploit Dev team, BackTrack 4 Beta is ready and available. I thought I'd post up some "getting started" notes, to help people out with the first surge of questions.Default password to BackTrack 4 hasn't changed, still root / toor.
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008 Things are a-brewin’ in Sweden. Sweden is not just home of the infamous bikini team, it is also the home of Outpost 24, an equally sexy software-as-a-service network scanning service, and the employer of my friend Robert E. Lee and his colleague Jack C. Louis. These guys are the inventors ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008 Nmap, the popular network scanner and mapper, has been updated to version 4.75 and gained the ability to graphically display the network topology it scans and maps. The update also includes hundreds of new OS signatures and new scripting engine modules.The mapping facility is incorporated in the Zenmap GUI for ...
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