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- ordered Alfa AWUS036H WiFi Adapter for some #karmetasploit work. thx to @carlos_perez for his script.
- RT @pauldotcom: PaulDotCom EP 208 Part 2 released http://is.gd/eRN94 Carlos talks Karmetasploit, <-dat script is awesome
- RT @matthewhughes: The CompTIA Security+ exam looks cheap. Is it worthwhile? | not really. if you can get it free maybe.
- RT @phn1x: SAHA tonight see page for location and time: http://sanantoniohackers.org/?page_id=27 <- cool, may make a trip one day.
- @cprocuna ahora quien va a poner a joserra en su lugar?
- anybody every try this? http://www.p0wnlabs.com/ reminds me of the offsec course lab access.
Category Archives: Desktop Security
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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New Firefox vulnerability
These are busy times, especially after cansecwest. The conference that owned with browser 0 days. Firefox was a victim and Mozilla has published a blog post here about 2 issues. The 1 issue that was discovered in the cansecwest conference … Continue reading
Intrusion Detection
So there is this technology called IDS, Intrusion Detection System. Also known as IPS, Intrusion Prevention Systems. There are flavors, such as Host based and Network Based systems. This is a piece of the security pie, and a very important … Continue reading
Adobe Acrobat 0-day
Zero day, or 0 day vulnerability in the Security field is one that is known but has no patch available. I mentioned in a previous post about the recent Adobe Acrobat 0-day. I found out that exploits are now out … Continue reading
Holiday Virus, again: Digital Picture Frames
From Security Focus Last year this issue came to my attention from a posting from the ISC and now apparently a Samsung model of digital picture frame carries a virus that can sneak on to your computer. Be aware of … Continue reading
Antivirus product Test. Some big names fail
A test was conducted by virus bulletin and some of the big names failed, mostly with false positives. They were setup to have to detect all known viruses in the wild and not trigger any false positives. Some had false … Continue reading
MSNBC Spam! Beware
So a co-worker almost got caught with some spoofed spam email. I looked in my gmail and saw the same email, and apparently it contains malware. An article came up on SANS. So off that link is another one to … Continue reading
Paul posts some good Mac OSX security tips
See HERE! He talks about 1. Encryption – I use trucrypt to safeguard sensitive data. 2. Strong User authentication 3. Use of admin priviledges 4. Software updates 5. Firewall use 6. Links with more info. Check it out at pauldotcom.com!
Apple updates for DNS issue
Finally. If you have a Macbook, check you updates and install. Read about it at the register, here. Although there might be issues as to whether it really fixes the problem. Check the news here Securityfocus
Secure RDP, are you using it?!
This is mostly for Business Users, but for Home Users one thing to note is, to never allow RDP access into your systems. It should be blocked by default at your router/firewall, but if not and you don’t use it, … Continue reading
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