How Many Virtual Machines Do You Have Running At Home?

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

I just noticed that I have 13 different virtual machines installed on my home VirtualBox installation.  It seems like a lot but there are many more that I would love to install and play with.  This is just a variety of flavors I've needed in the past for "testing" ...

Exploiting The New IE 0day (Aurora) With MetaSploit

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

While I was updating my VMs today with the final version of BackTrack 4 I decided to jump in and take a look at the new IE 0day exploit that was added to MetaSploit a couple of days ago.  It works surprisingly well.  I had 100% success rate with IE6.  ...

BackTrack 4 Final Released

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

BackTrack 4 Final has now been released and aside from the many bug fixes, this version includes a new kernel, a larger and expanded toolset repository and custom tools that you can only find on BackTrack. Download: http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/

Gmail Now Defaults To Using HTTPS

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Last night Google started rolling out the change that enables the "Always use https" feature of Gmail by default.  This is a great change to finally see because any little bit helps. Source: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/default-https-access-for-gmail.html

Fox Sports Web Site Compromised

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has detected that the Fox Sports site has been compromised and injected with malicious code. Fox Sports is a division of the Fox Broadcasting Company. It specializes in the latest sports news and world sports updates. Fox Sports has an Alexa ranking of 330. Our research ...