Analyzing the MD5 collision in Flame

Monday, June 11th, 2012

Here is a great analysis of the MD5 collision in Flame by Alex Sotirov. https://trailofbits.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/flame-md5.pdf

Nmap 6 Released

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

The Nmap Project is pleased to announce the immediate, free availability of the Nmap Security Scanner version 6.00 from http://nmap.org/. It is the product of almost three years of work, 3,924 code commits, and more than a dozen point releases since the big Nmap 5 release in July 2009. Nmap ...

65 Open Source Replacements for Security Software

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

This is a great list of 65 open source projects to replace various security applications that you are probably running right now.  I personally use most of them and it's great to see such a thorough list like this posted all in one place.  Source: http://www.datamation.com/security/65-open-source-replacements-for-security-software-1.html

Install the old version of Tweetdeck (0.38.2)

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Image via CrunchBase"][/caption] I have tried the newer versions of Tweetdeck (now owned by Twitter themselves) and I just do not like the look and feel of it.  I would much rather have the old look back but unfortunately there's no "Revert to Classic Tweetdeck" option.  I also tried Seesmic ...

HTTPS Everywhere is now available for Google Chrome

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

HTTPS Everywhere is a produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links ...