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Tshark

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Tshark is actually part of the Wireshark package, and has some similar functionality. It does some cool stuff though so I thought it

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 23, 2010

WikiLeaks founder's life shrouded in mystery

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has with his whistleblower website helped uncover some of the world's best hidden scandals, but he himself keeps much of his life shrouded in mystery.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 19, 2010

SELinux sandboxing for Linux app security #LinuxCon

SELinux is a great way to limit the access rights/roles on a Linux machine. But how do you limit CPU or memory usage of a given application? Red Hat engineer Dan Walsh has a solution that he calls SELinux Sandbox which he demoed at the LinuxCon conference today.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 17, 2010

New Hacker Technology Exposes Weak Passwords

Bank accounts and personal information online are at greater risk than ever thanks to "hopelessly inadequate" passwords and brute force tactics used by hackers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 17, 2010

Social Engineering: Why Employees Are Your Security

In the enterprise data security chain, human beings often prove to be the weakest link. Using social engineering tactics, thieves can frequently gain secret information about a company's systems simply by asking. To prevent this, not only must employees be trained, but systems must be changed to reinforce the policies employees have learned.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 17, 2010

Making apps safe is hard work

Let's say you're in charge of the security of an online app store -- any app store will do, whether it be Apple's App Store, Android's Market, or even one of the many Linux app repositories. Your customers' computing safety depends to a large degree on the work you do.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 12, 2010

More than 1 in 10 Mozilla bug finders turn down cash

The open-source Mozilla project has been offering cash bounties for security bugs for six years now, but often bug finders simply turn down the cash.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 06, 2010

Metasploit To Get More Powerful Web Attack Features

A popular open-source Web application attack and audit framework is now under the umbrella of Rapid7, the vulnerability management company that purchased the Metasploit Project last year. The w3af project ultimately will bring more Web security features and functions to both the Metasploit tool and Rapid7's commercial NeXpose product.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 05, 2010

Weaknet Linux

WeakNet Linux is designed primarily for penetration testing, forensic analysis and other security tasks. WeakNet Linux IV was built from Ubuntu 9.10 which is a Debian based distro. All references to Ubuntu have been removed as the author completely re-compiled the kernel, removed all Ubuntu specific software which would cause the ISO to bloat, and used a non-Ubuntu-traditional Window Manager, with no DM.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 03, 2010

US Secret Service shows business how to fight cyberthreats

Both types of attack have increased in the past year, according to the 2010 Verizon Data Breach Investigations report in partnership with the US Secret Service. This is the first time private and commercial data has been combined in a data breach report, said Matthijs Van der Wel, head of the EMEA forensics team at Verizon Business.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 02, 2010

OpenStack

Rackspace announced the OpenStack project today, open sourcing much of the software it uses to run its own cloud. I spoke with Rackspace

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 29, 2010

Chrome gets patched after exploit bounties

Just before the Black Hat security conference begins, Google has patched seven security holes in its stable version of Chrome and has begun an effort to speed up the software industry's response to such vulnerabilities.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 28, 2010

Open source startup takes over OpenSSO

A Norwegian startup is assuming responsibility for maintaining an open source web authentication technology originally developed by Sun Microsystems, and seemingly neglected by Oracle, which purchased Sun in January. The company, ForgeRock, has released a new version of Sun's Open Single Sign On (OpenSSO) Enterprise software, called OpenAM, that adheres to the OpenSSO roadmap established by Sun.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 27, 2010

Yahoo will invest in hackers with good ideas

Yahoo is considering investing in hackers with good ideas and technologies, a company executive said on Saturday. "We are open to many ways of having a stake in creative young companies," said Jeff Kinder, Yahoo

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 27, 2010

Shortened URLs Drive Need for New Security

Symantec has released the July 2010 MessageLabs Intelligence Report which contains the usual interesting and relevant facts regarding trends in spam and malware. Of particular interest in this report, though, is the fact that attacks exploiting shortened URLs have skyrocketed, and that a new approach is needed to protect against the rising threat.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 26, 2010

Hacker University Fills Classrooms in Record Numbers

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LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 23, 2010

Google Ups the Bug Bounty Ante to $3133.7

Just four days after Mozilla announced it was increasing the bounty paid for critical security bugs in its software to $3,000, Google has upped the ante, saying that it will now pay $3133.70 for the most severe bugs researchers find in Chromium.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 21, 2010

Computer hackers break bread, push boundaries of technology

In a corner of a Panera Bread store, amid the clatter of dinner plates and orders recited over a warbling sound system, a group of men and a woman gathered last week, laptops open. They threw around terms like "botnets" and "onion routers" with ease, talked about microcontrollers and how to crack into a computer database should the need arise to test their own computer defenses.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 19, 2010

Metasploit Framework 3.4.1 Released

The Metasploit Project is proud to announce the release of the Metasploit Framework version 3.4.1. This release sees the first official non-Windows Meterpreter payload, in PHP as discussed last month here.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 16, 2010

What This Chinese Hacker Could Teach Apple

Wu Shi, a security researcher in Shanghai, has become one of the world's top browser bug hunters. If tough love is the best way to fix the world's software, then Wu Shi may be one of the information security industry's unsung heroes.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 15, 2010

Security Projects - Page 32

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