Funny ‘Hacker’ Story.
A funny story about a hacker named “bitchchecker”, proving his mad skills by attacking someone on the Internet.
Using the IP: 127.0.0.1
Watch out for this guy.
VRT: APT: Should your panties be in a bunch, and how do you un-bunch them?.
I don’t know how to say it anymore than this:
Matt Olney wrote a damn, a DAMN good post about APT on the VRT blog, and if you read my blog, and you don’t go over to the VRT blog and [...]
10 reasons to avoid talking on the phone – The Oatmeal.
This is an awesome comic, pretty much sums up talking on the phone correctly.
Click through, it’s awesome.
Sourcefire VRT Labs.
For those of you that are using Sourcefire VRT rules to protect your network with your Snort IDS/IPS installation, (as you should!). There are mappings from MS vulnerability number to SID number, in the past, you either had to be a Sourcefire customer (we make this super easy in the Policy Editor GUI) [...]
go ahead, mac my day : usability participants needed for Outlook:Mac study in March.
Blog entry from one of the developers that works on the Office:Mac suite at Redmond, asking for usability testing volunteers to test Outlook for the Mac. (To be released this year IIRC.
If you are in or near Mountain View, California, and you [...]
Without going off the deep-end here and discussing every single Snort rule keyword, I just wanted to touch on a few modifiers that people sometimes misunderstand. They aren’t difficult, and hopefully after this explanation and a few examples, I can clear some of the air around these five modifiers.
The five modifiers that I am talking [...]
AppleInsider | Apple sues HTC for alleged infringement of 20 iPhone patents.
…And so it begins… I was beginning to wonder when this was going to happen, of course, HTC, the makers of many phones, the most notable being the Google Nexus One, and the G1.
We’ll have to wait and see how this one shakes out.
Plugins add grunt to Google’s Quick Search Box « Hawk Wings.
If you are a user of Google’s Quick Search Box (similar to QuickSilver), and is in active development, you can download and use these series of scripts in order to interact with the rest of your OS. (Things like sending a file through email [...]
Hogger is a new Snort supportive tool written in Perl. It takes Nmap output and makes a Host Attribute Table.
via Security – The Global Perspective: Hogging the Snort Host Attribute Table.
I talked about the above here.
Let me start off by saying I’m not bashing the writer of this article, and I’m trying not to be super critical. I don’t want to discourage this person from writing articles about Snort rules. It’s great when people in the Snort community step up and explain some simple things out there. There are mistakes, [...]