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5.29.2004

 
Penetration Testing Guide from PentrationTesting.Com



5.28.2004

 
Hacking with Ramzi (Windows Media, 2.67 MB). Do you like to learn a new hacker tip? So, today I will teach you how to...

 
First 64-bit Windows Virus Reported

 
Honeynet Security Console is an analysis tool to view events on your personal honeynet. It gives you the power to view events from Snort, TCPDump, Firewall, Syslog and Sebek logs. It also allows you to correlate events from each of these data types to have a full grasp of the attackers' actions.



5.27.2004

 
Virus authors may soon write viruses that detect when they infect a VMware Virtual Machine and act accordingly



5.26.2004

 
The Kibuv worm spread by exploiting several (mostly) old Windows vulnerabilities proving that some people obviously "just don't get it".

 
Cisco's HFR or Huge Fast Router (yeah... right) is reported to have run $500 million in R&D. Chris and Ronnie have reported that they now require one of these (each) for their studies.

 
Off the beaten track: Make sure you are wearing your pants whilst going multiuser

 
From Keith "With Microsoft in the security business we can all sleep better at night." Let's just call this move "job security".



5.25.2004

 
A Pro-Active Approach to Software Security

An interesting profile appeared in Sunday's Washington Post TechNews of Secure Software, a Northern Virginia company founded in March 2001 to provide consulting services to test software, find bugs, and suggest safeguards. They're now developing software (expected to be released by year end) that companies can use to test their own software for vulnerabilities, with the help of $5.2 million in new venture capital. They plan to target software makers, financial services companies and government buyers. Founder John Viega's book "Building Secure Software" was published by Addison-Wesley.

They offer a Free Download of their open-source tool to help companies writing their own applications to identify potential security risks in their software.

 
New Helix CDROM Released. [md5] Helix is a Knoppix variant aimed at Forensics and Auditing applications.



5.24.2004

 
Snort has failed to perform efficiently enough to minimize false alarms and is therefore on the drawing board for a major overhaul. The next generation of Snort will include "passive discovery" features, Snort's creator said, which will automatically tweak the package's settings.





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