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[SecTor Review] Web Application Worms: The Future of Browser Insecurity
2007-11-23 04:56:00 SecTor Day #1 Speaker: Mike Shema Webapp worms and browser insecurity… exactly what I wanted to hear about. It was actually quite a tough call because at the same time as this talk, Joanna Rutkowska was speaking on ‘Security Challenges in Virtualized Environments’. In the end, my interest in web security won out over my interest in ... More About: Reviews , Future , Review , Worms , The Future
[SecTor Review] Web Application Worms: The Future of Browser Insecurity
2007-11-23 04:56:00 SecTor Day #1 Speaker: Mike Shema Webapp worms and browser insecurity… exactly what I wanted to hear about. It was actually quite a tough call because at the same time as this talk, Joanna Rutkowska was speaking on ‘Security Challenges in Virtualized Environments’. In the end, my interest in web security won out over my interest in ... More About: Reviews , Future , Review , Worms , The Future
[SecTor Review] Zen and the Art of Cybersecurity
2007-11-23 04:33:00 SecTor Keynote Speaker: Ira Winkler It’s lunch time, the food is great and the first day is on it’s way to being half over. Although I’ve never seen him talk before, I’ve heard the hype about Ira Winkler… a great speaker with an interesting background, I was really looking forward to this keynote… and it didn’t disappoint. Ira ... More About: Reviews , Review
[SecTor Review] Zen and the Art of Cybersecurity
2007-11-23 04:33:00 SecTor Keynote Speaker: Ira Winkler It’s lunch time, the food is great and the first day is on it’s way to being half over. Although I’ve never seen him talk before, I’ve heard the hype about Ira Winkler… a great speaker with an interesting background, I was really looking forward to this keynote… and it didn’t disappoint. Ira ... More About: Reviews , Review
[SecTor Review] TCP/IP Perversion
2007-11-23 03:59:00 SecTor Day #1 Speaker: Rares Stefan This was the first talk that I attended. Based on what I saw, it was the smallest of the three rooms, however I can’t be sure as every talk I attended was in the same room. I rather enjoyed the intimate nature of the setting… a small, yet packed, room made ... More About: Reviews , Review
[SecTor Review] TCP/IP Perversion
2007-11-23 03:59:00 SecTor Day #1 Speaker: Rares Stefan This was the first talk that I attended. Based on what I saw, it was the smallest of the three rooms, however I can’t be sure as every talk I attended was in the same room. I rather enjoyed the intimate nature of the setting… a small, yet packed, room made ... More About: Reviews , Review
Verizon Cell Phones Alert the World to 911 Calls
2007-11-22 20:32:00 This was on Slashdot earlier and the original article can be found here (including a video which demonstrates the sound that is made). It seems that in order for cell phones to be handicap accessible, they are required to (in some way) alert the user that a 911 call is being made. The FCC Telecommunications ... More About: World , Cell Phones , Phones , Cell , Verizon
Verizon Cell Phones Alert the World to 911 Calls
2007-11-22 20:32:00 This was on Slashdot earlier and the original article can be found here (including a video which demonstrates the sound that is made). It seems that in order for cell phones to be handicap accessible, they are required to (in some way) alert the user that a 911 call is being made. The FCC Telecommunications ... More About: World , Cell Phones , Phones , Cell , Verizon
Growing the Security ?Profession?
2007-11-22 18:13:00 SecTor Keynote Speaker: Dr. Richard Reiner It was Day 1 of SecTor and I had gotten up much earlier than I usually do, so I was still half asleep as the SecTor house keeping was occurring, the house keeping ended and a round of applause brought me out back to reality just as Dr. Reiner was ... More About: Security , Reviews , Profession , Growing , Fess
[SecTor Review] Growing the Security ?Profession?
2007-11-22 18:13:00 SecTor Keynote Speaker: Dr. Richard Reiner It was Day 1 of SecTor and I had gotten up much earlier than I usually do, so I was still half asleep as the SecTor house keeping was occurring, the house keeping ended and a round of applause brought me out back to reality just as Dr. Reiner was ... More About: Security , Reviews , Profession , Review , Growing
SecTor Overview
2007-11-22 17:50:00 My Tuesday and Wednesday this week were occupied by the first ever SecTor (Security Education Conference Toronto) . Over the next couple of days, I’m going to write-up my thoughts about the speakers that I saw but I thought that I would first give an overview of the conference itself. The schedule provided for two full ... More About: Reviews , Overview
NetCat and LF vs CRLF
2007-11-18 07:12:00 I was attempting to grab a web page via netcat the other day, and my GET / HTTP/1.0<enter><enter> appeared to simply hang. I mentioned this to a colleague who pointed out that netcat only sends line-feed (LF / 0×0A), not carriage-return line-feed (CRLF / 0×0D0A). I did some playing around and it turns out that ... More About: Tools
Yahoo! Security impressed me.
2007-11-14 20:24:00 I got an early Christmas gift this year. My fiance bought me a subscription to Yahoo ! Music Unlimited, 2 million songs that I can stream / download on demand (which is awesome, if anyone’s been thinking about buying it). Now in order to use Yahoo! Music Unlimited, I had to install Yahoo! Music Jukebox. The ... More About: Security , Vulnerabilities
Windows Update Serivce required for Windows Update Standalone Installer (.m
2007-11-07 07:34:00 I decided to install PowerShell for Vista today, specifically because Michael keeps talking about PowerShell Scripting over at Terminal23.net. Now, I have Vista Home Premium (it came with the PC) and I failed to realize that PowerShell won’t install on my version of Vista. However, this post is about what happened before the installer even ... More About: Windows , Operating Systems , Update , Windows Update , Standalone
Firefox Update Mistake
2007-11-06 21:43:00 Earlier today I still hadn’t been prompted to install Firefox 2.0.0.9, so I decided to download it and install it myself. I went to the website, downloaded the installer, installed Firefox 2.0.0.9 and opened Firefox… The new version was installed and things were going good… Then a couple of hours ago I had the Firefox ... More About: Update , Mista
The Day The Routers Died
2007-11-06 17:01:00 Martin McKeay posted this on his blog, but it’s hilarious so I feel the need to repost it here. The Day The Routers Died , to the tune of American Pie, sang by someone who is presumably British, given the accent / pronunciation of ‘router’. I would assume that it is from the RIPE 55 Meeting. More About: Entertainment
Restricting access to a blog
2007-11-05 06:10:00 Before I head to bed, I decided to read any updated RSS feeds available in bloglines, I had an update for 0×000000.com and the update read: There is a change, access is no longer allowed by default. Visit the webpage for more info. That was all, just this cryptic message. So I visited the website and found: I ... More About: Personal , Blog , Access , Strict
New IDA Pro Freeware
2007-11-03 06:10:00 Previously, I’ve written about IDA Pro freeware, which at the time was IDA Pro 4.3. It seems that the folks at DataRescue have decided to release a new version. IDA Pro 4.9 is now available as freeware and as they point out, it lacks the functionality of IDA Pro 5.x but it’s still a fairly ... More About: Security , Tools , Freeware
The Predominance of Wireless
2007-11-02 03:12:00 Sitting here at my desk, I’m currently surrounded by 7 functional networked devices. These devices are all connected to a D-Link hub (yes… I said hub). A cable runs the length of my apartment from this hub to the bedroom, where the cable modem and router are situated. Sitting on top of the router is ... More About: Wireless , Mina , Domin
IE 7 Install on XP Potentially Confusing to End Users
2007-10-31 14:13:00 While building a fully patched Windows XP VM the other day, I decided to also install IE7, however for the sake of “snapshotting”, I performed a full update (via Windows Updates) but unchecked IE7. After I rebooted and took a snapshot, I went back to install IE7. Windows Updates downloads the file and kicks off ... More About: Security , Vulnerabilities , Users , Tent
Sulley Fuzzing Framework
2007-10-19 09:10:00 I installed the Sulley Fuzzing Framework ( pdf | download ) when it was first released… unfortunately lack of time kept me from playing with it… in fact… I downloaded it again tonight because I’d forgotten that I’d installed it. Tonight I noticed a post to the fuzzing mailing list and decided to play around ... More About: Security , Ework , Uzzi
Domain Name Addiction and How It Lead Me to a Domain Appraisal Scam
2007-10-19 07:22:00 Hello, my name is Tyler and I have a problem… I’m a domain name addict. Yes that’s right… I buy domain names… stupid domain names that are completely useless… and I’m up to 35 of them. As a result I’ve decided that I might as well post all the ones I don’t use on Sedo in ... More About: Domain , Domain Name , Addiction , Scam , Lead
Winner: Lame Vuln of the Year Award
2007-10-18 17:21:00 I saw a blog post over at McAfee Avert Labs (normally their blog is one of my favourite reads) and I’m not really sure what to think. At first I thought it was a joke… but apparently they are serious. The bug that they are reporting is this: Connect a Windows Mobile device to your computer ... More About: Security , Award , Winner , Year , Lame
1.0.0.127.dnsbugtest.1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa
2007-10-16 10:02:00 Earlier a colleague pasted me an entry from his DNS Server logs, a very odd request was being made from a machine on his local network, the request was: 1.0.0.127.dnsbugtest.1.0.0.127.in-addr.ar pa: type PTR, class IN. We both did some quick Googling and found an interesting patent from Apple, “A Method and apparatus for detecting incorrect responses ...
Interesting Issue with Silc
2007-10-05 09:43:00 I decided to buy a hosted VPS the other day and I’m still in the process of setting everything up and ironing out the kinks. I finally got around to installing some software, which included silc. For those of you that don’t know, silc is like encrypted IRC. So when you get a VPS they give ... More About: Interesting , Tools , Issue , Eres
Microsoft BlueHat Talks Online
2007-10-05 06:29:00 Michael Howard has posted links to the audio from the presentations made at this years BlueHat conference. Download Links: DanKaminsky.wma HalvarFlake.wma JeffForristal.wma LureneGrenier.wma MarkRussinovich.wma MattMiller.wma OllieWhitehouse.wma PedramAmini.wma PetrMatoucek.wma RobertoPreatoni.wma ShaneMacauley.wma More About: Security , Microsoft , Online
Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8300
2007-10-01 18:38:00 After a week of headaches and hassles, I’ve got a PVR… actually I’m on my third PVR since Friday. The first one had NIC-related issues (it couldn’t get an IP Address), the second one had HDD-related issues (it couldn’t record anything), so let’s hope this third one works. So now I’ve got a Rogers branded ... More About: Atlanta , Explorer , Xplorer
Adobe.com Vulnerability
2007-09-26 21:08:00 I’m not going to talk about this, just a link to Ryan’s post on the subject. More About: Security , Adobe , Vulnerabilities , Vulnerability
Customer Abuse
2007-09-24 17:54:00 Greetings, While this is a bit of a personal gripe, it really does apply to IT and on a broader scope… universally. The player in this complaint is Rogers (A Cable, Phone (Home / Cell), Internet) provider in Canada. The item is a Rogers PVR (I already have a generic one, but I want one that ties in ... More About: Personal , Abuse , Customer
Educational Hacking?
More articles from this author:2007-09-23 07:58:00 I was browsing my Bloglines the other day and I saw an interesting post title on the McAfee AVERT Labs blog. Federico Barbieri had write a short post entitled, “Educational Hacking? Is it really a good idea?” After reading the title, I expected a write-up on universities offering ethical hacking and malware authoring courses and ... More About: Security , Duca 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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