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Derbycon OWASP Top Ten Training review

So this year was my second year attending Derbycon, and it lived up to all expectations. I do want to say that I met alot of people in real life that I’ve known on twitter, and got to hang out with all of the hacker family that I’ve grown to know and love.…»Read the full article

Nmap scan of an iPhone 4s

So i was surfing the net the other day, and i came across an old iPhone nmap scan, so I thought it would be interesting to run it against my iPhone and share it. It’s interesting that the sync port is open, I guess this would be so your iTunes can initiate wireless sync.  So…»Read the full article

Great Writeup of the HBGary #Anonymous Hack

I’m mostly posting this so I can refer to it in the future — but if you haven’t read this — you should. It provides an explanation of the perfect storm of well known hacks… What’s most shocking is HBGary is a firm that supposedly provided services to mitigate these types of attacks.

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Pauldotcom.com Live Streaming all day

Pauldotcom episode 200 is live streaming all day today — and supporting Johnny Long and Hackers for Charity! Listen/watch here!

SANS Tool Page (and the Whitelist Hash Database)

A few days ago, SANS Internet Storm Center guru Johannes Ullrich released the Whitelist Hash Database.  This is a pretty cool little db, which tells you hashes of known files, like mspaint.exe, or cmd.exe on win7/xp/etc…check it out!

Now I saw the URL to this tool, and hit the backspace key a…»Read the full article

Pentesting With Backtrack

So I started the Pentesting with Backtrack (PWB) course from Offensive Security. So far, I like what I see. It has shown some pretty good info so far, and while I probably won’t write a comprehensive review, for the cost ($700) is seems very worth it, especially just to get you out of your…»Read the full article

Backtrack, Shmoocon Schedule and Defcon price Increase

Backtrack 4 final is out! (as of yesterday) Woot! Thanks to everyone who puts in hard time creating and maintaining this distro. Download here. New forums and website too! The torrents are the best place to get it right now.

Defcon is going up another $20 to $140, I guess this is to be…»Read the full article