Category Archives: Security

db_autopwn

So I have been getting familiar with the db_autopwn function in metasploit. This basically lets you take your vulnerability scan results from Nessus and import the findings into metasploit for automated exploitation. There are tutorials and plenty videos on the … Continue reading

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Metasploit Tutorials

Hi, its been a while. I have been semi active. I recently published 2 videos on how to use a couple of exploits with Metasploit. 1 with msfconsole and the other with the recently released msfgui. I uploaded one to … Continue reading

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Monitoring your Children’s computer activity

There was an interesting discussion on twitter today on monitoring your children’s computer activity. Question was brought on by @Mckeay and @falconsview, @andrewsmhay and others joined in. So should you monitor your kids computer activity? Web activity, etc? Is it … Continue reading

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B-Sides Austin and Austin Hacker Space

I attended the morning session of Security B-Sides Austin, last week. It was pretty good. Rocky DeStefano, presented on SIEM and that is something that has my interest as of late. He had some very good information and I would … Continue reading

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Penetration Testing Training

2 great training courses for pen testing are done by SANS and Offensive Security. If you are working in IT security and are interested in learning new skills or if you are starting out in pentesting, these courses are both … Continue reading

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Password cracking in your organization

How do you know your users aren’t using easy to guess passwords? You rely on your Operating system/Active Directory password complexity requirements. You force users to create passwords with Upper case, lower case, number and maybe even a special characters. … Continue reading

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Port scan broke my server!

Wether it be nmap port scan, Nessus discovery scan, or any scanner that tries to find open ports on a server, you have probably heard atleast once, “hey! that scan broke my server/app”. I must admit I have. I was … Continue reading

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Collection of Default Password sites

So a thread on the FD mail list gave me an idea to make a post on a list of password websites: http://www.passwordsdatabase.com http://www.phenoelit-us.org/dpl/dpl.html http://cirt.net/passwords http://dopeman.org/default_passwords.html http://www.cyxla.com/passwords/passwords.html

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Facebook privacy news blowsup, but should it?

News on the latest privacy capabilities have been going around a lot lately. I posted a vid of an overview, as well as a 10 things you need to know article(i think). There has been a lot of talk, and I … Continue reading

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Interesting Forensics Story

http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Case-of-the-Teacher-and-the-Teen-Tricksterand160;&id=3208559 A teacher gets spied on via her computer complains, takes her PC to forensics, who finds trojan.

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