D-Link adds CAPTCHA anti-trojan security to routers

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 ...

BackTrack 4 Beta Released

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. KDE ...

New DOS Attack Is a Killer

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 ...

NMap 4.75 now maps the network graphically

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 ...

MoocherHunter – Detect & Track Rogue Wifi Users

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

MoocherHunter™ is a mobile tracking software tool for the real-time on-the-fly geo-location of wireless moochers and hackers. It’s included as part of the OSWA Assistant LiveCD we mentioned quite recently.’ I wanted to mention this tool separately as I think it’s very cool! MoocherHunter™ identifies the location of an 802.11-based wireless moocher ...