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ōKAMi Information Security: Metasploit Tutorials...

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Offensive Security is hosting a series of tutorials. Related to using the Metasploit framework. I haven't had the chance to take a look yet.but they sound promising. These are being released in support of the Hackers for Charity project that Johnny Long is associated with.from the tutorial homepage:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Enter your search terms. View my complete profile. Awesome debate on fear and security. Handbook of Information Security, Hossein Bidgoli.

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ōKAMi Information Security: October 2007

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EWeek's "12 Scariest Applications". EWeekcom posted a great list. Of 12 applications that are in common use but suffer from an assortment of vulnerabilities. The list has some applications that will surprise you. Don't be surprised that Internet Explorer is not on the list.for good or bad, they do have a reason. Links to this post. Online identities and expert witnesses. Links to this post. TouchGraph.visually representing web connections. And see for yourself. Links to this post. Links to this post.

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ōKAMi Information Security: November 2008

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Learn something new every day: NEAT. Recently read an article. On Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) which used an acronym whose concepts I was familiar with, but that I had not heard before: NEAT. It stands for:. In a recent class, I commented on applying three of these to reference monitors and trusted computing bases:. Small enough/simple enough that it can be thoroughly tested for correctness. Wellyou learn something new all the time, and for me, that is NEAT! Of the four page article.

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ōKAMi Information Security: October 2009

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Good article on Wired.com. About the results of an analysis of passwords used by Hotmail users. Out of about 10,000 passwords that were studied, the most common was:. Some of the others showed signs of cultural bias, that reveal potential geolocational evidence.i.e. the large number of Spanish names. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Enter your search terms. View my complete profile. Handbook of Information Security, Hossein Bidgoli. Wireless Security, Randall Nichols and Panos Lekkas.

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ōKAMi Information Security: Nuclear weapons aren't necessary...

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Nuclear weapons aren't necessary. Friend pointed me to the cartoon. About why countries in the world (in this case, China) no longer need nuclear weapons. Awesome! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Enter your search terms. View my complete profile. Nuclear weapons arent necessary. Handbook of Information Security, Hossein Bidgoli. Wireless Security, Randall Nichols and Panos Lekkas. Security Engineering, Ross Anderson. Practical Cryptography, Bruce Schneier.

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ōKAMi Information Security: November 2009

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Awesome debate on fear and security. Bruce Schneier has a great piece on fear and logic and the nuclear industry. The best part is the comments. In the comments, you can really see some of the interplay between fears based on facts and logical reasoning and fear based on raw emotions. It is interesting to see how some commenters compare the risks to other things that we accept as "normal" or "reasonable" VS those commenters who try to support their comments with gut feeling and fear-mongering.

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ōKAMi Information Security: Battle against the dark side...

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Battle against the dark side. One of my students made a very interesting comment the other day.about wanting to engage in battle against the dark side. So what does it mean to engage in battle against the dark side? There are very direct and flamboyants ways to do so. Presuming you work for the government, you may have these exciting jobs:. Hack the computers of the enemy to steal info and plant malware in case of cyber-warfare. Presume you don't work for the government? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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ōKAMi Information Security: Most common passwords

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Good article on Wired.com. About the results of an analysis of passwords used by Hotmail users. Out of about 10,000 passwords that were studied, the most common was:. Some of the others showed signs of cultural bias, that reveal potential geolocational evidence.i.e. the large number of Spanish names. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Enter your search terms. View my complete profile. Handbook of Information Security, Hossein Bidgoli. Wireless Security, Randall Nichols and Panos Lekkas.

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ōKAMi Information Security: January 2010

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Dramatic Increase in the number of malware variants. Reading some of the details in Panda Labs Annual Report for 2009. And came across these statistics.the math is pretty crazy. Panda says that they have 40 million variants of malware in their database, collected over 20 years of business. They indicate that they are collecting 55,000 variants a day. If you do the math, that means that in the past 365 days, they collected 20 million variants. Neato  Somebody has been busy. Links to this post. Adding addi...

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ōKAMi Information Security: September 2007

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Interesting article:   Going Undercover in the Slimy World of Phishing. In eWeek, that describes the criminal business of phishing. Don't doubt that cyber crime is big business. Links to this post. Interesting podcast on eWeek.com about IcePack. A hacking toolkit and the spread of hacking tool kits in general. Some points that stuck out to me include:. The value associated with malware.meaning the money that people will spend to buy malware. The growth in the malware industry in general. In case you hadn...