After the defacement and clean up, I was going about my normal business when a couple of friends noted that select pieces of reputation software are highlighting the site as either a phishing site or malicious content. This means folks would be blocked or have WARNING EVIL signs as they attempted to connect to this [...]
In my other rush to get up to speed for SANS 709 Developing Exploits for Penetration Testers and Security Researchers I’m looking for any material that will easy that learning curve. Steve Sims has just posted up two YouTube videos on brute-forcing Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) on Linux straight out of the 709 courseware. [...]
I received two gifts from a family member returning from China. It was a lovely though and I was touched by the gesture. Both items are of the geek variety and bought from stalls, one a ball point pen with a built in 2GB USB stick that can act as a voice recorder and the [...]
One of the wonderful pieces of IT security defense is planning for when you get your arse handed to you. The more technical term is incident response, but it’s not as much fun to say to your mates at the pub. Being attacked and having to recover is sadly part of IT life these days, [...]
The folks on Twitter has provided a couple of quite though provoking links on the subject of study Jason Haddix linked this http://measuringmeasures.com/blog/2010/4/19/7-tips-for-successful-self-learning.html The folks at Cisco Security linked this: http://etherealmind.com/why-the-ccie-program-is-more-useful-than-the-certification-itself/ I like to think each of us has to find our own way to study, whether it be driven by passion, need or simple [...]
