Category Archives: News

SANS Mentor Training in Austin TX

On April 6, 2010, I will be mentoring SEC560 Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking in Austin TX. See link for details and sign up! If you click on the ad at the bottom right of the site, you can help … Continue reading

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Site Modifications

So I changed the theme, I added some add-ons, most significant one being the twitter feed on the side bar. I retweet a lot of interesting news that I find on twitter. Let me explain my use of twitter. I … Continue reading

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Follow my Google Reader shared news

Check out this link for access to my RSS shared news. http://www.google.com/reader/shared/09423364391415399129

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COFEE from Microsoft

Interesting. Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor. http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/solutions/cofee/default.aspx

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Its been a while…

So today Microsoft came out with 2 patches for a critical and important vulnerabilities. Its a good idea to subscribe to the Patch Management mail list: http://www.patchmanagement.org/ Doing some work today made me refer to the command line kung fu … Continue reading

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CoreSecurity BlackHat Party

This was an interesting post by McGrew Security: http://www.mcgrewsecurity.com/2009/06/23/core-security-you-just-might-not-be-cool-enough-for-their-party/ I have checked out their product and it is pretty good. It is always interesting to get this type of information from the community.

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National Cybersecurity: Obama

Im late on this but this was an interesting speach on Cybersecurity. It is good to see words like hacker, vulnerability and conficker come out of the President of the United States as the site integrates with youtube to bring … Continue reading

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Get L0phtCrack

http://www.l0phtcrack.com/ They are back with L0phtcrack 6. I downloaded this and tested it out on my system, cracked a test account I created. I am very interested in using this with Unix passwords and a certain password dictionary that happens … Continue reading

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Conficker killed me!

Just kidding. It has been really busy lately. Have been working on some new things with Vulnerability scanning and compliance scanning. Anyways, Conficker did not do me in. It was an interesting time, following the news, taking certain precautions. Some … Continue reading

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Zero Day vulnerabilities

What is a Zero Day vulnerability? I have talked a little bit about zero day vulnerabilities that have came out such as the recent ones with Excel and Adobe Reader. What about a vulnerability that is out there but no … Continue reading

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