After a two year absence due to unavoidable other obligations like good friends’ weddings, I finally made it back to one of my favorite hacker conferences, Toorcon. San Diego is always beautiful when I happen to be there with nice weather and a cool mix of people, both locals and visitors who are there for […]
This last weekend I took a trip up to Montreal for REcon. If you’re unfamiliar with REcon, it’s a small security conference focused on topics most interesting to reverse engineers. As such, the talks are more technical than you will find at other more mainstream conferences like BlackHat or DEFCON, and generally require a certain […]
Ok, enough with the APT marketing and journalism diarrhea… It’s really quite simple: ad·vanced – /ædˈvænst, -ˈvɑnst/ -adjective 1. ahead or far or further along in progress, complexity, knowledge, skill, etc.: an advanced class in Spanish; to take a course in advanced mathematics; Our plans are too advanced to make the change now. per·sist·ent – /pərˈsɪstənt, […]
I recently purchased the Motorola Droid from Verizon, and am so far very happy with it. Other than finding the physical keyboard a bit lacking from being extremely spoiled by the Sidekick’s physical keyboard to which no other physical keyboard could ever hope to live up to, I’ve really had no complaints with the device […]
Todd Manning and I have a new whitepaper available over at BreakingPoint on simulating Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks using the BreakingPoint product. You can read more about the paper in my BreakingPoint blog post, or just grab the paper here. If you’re a BreakingPoint customer, you’ll want the bundled version which comes with test cases […]
First let me say that this article is not meant to diminish the work that Alexander Sotirov et. all have been doing for the past 6 months. It’s good work, has brought about some awesome results, and has demonstrated what was once a theoretical attack on PKI certificates based on MD5 hash collisions. What I’m […]
If someone is selling you a network penetration test, and then running a vulnerability scanner and handing you a report, you’re not getting what you paid for, period.
Obviously the first thing everyone should be doing is to apply the patches that the major vendors rolled out, and do it quickly. It is no longer the time for debate in regard to whether or not you really do need to patch… the answer to that question is quite clear; Yes. Yes you do. […]
It’s been quite a while since I wrote or updated DFW, the I)ruidic FireWall. Included with that utility is a default iptables firewall policy which the user can use directly, tweak to their liking, or completely throw away and start over from scratch. NetFilter (iptables) has come a long way since I was actively working […]