Saturday, July 26th, 2008
Adeona is an open source internet-based laptop tracking system that is free to use. It's available for Linux, OSX, and Windows XP/Vista. After installation, Adeona will submit at random intervals, anonymously encrypted updates on the computer's location to servers on the Internet, specifically to OpenDHT, a free storage service. The ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Metasploit, the information security research and hack tool kit, created by HD Moore, has released exploit code targeting the DNS Cache Poisoning Flaw, recently revealed by Dan Kaminsky, of DoxPara Research.
Evidently, reported at Wired’s ThreatLevel blog, the code can not be utilized to overwrite the domain name server cache data, ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
SSH is the secure shell, a standard defined in RFC 4251. It is a network protocol that opens up a secure channel between two devices using TCP port 22. This channel can also be used for SFTP and SCP (secure FTP and secure copy, respectively). To make this work, you ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Kevin Mitnick knows that the weakest link in any security system is the person holding the information.
As a young fugitive hacker, he went to jail for breaking into computer networks, mostly by using his cunning and persuasion than his tech skills. He was an early master of the science of ...
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