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Category: tools | Posted by Avatar Staff 338 days ago
Via: http://blog.metasploit.com | Tags: The Pwnie Awards Nominate your favorites today comments Discuss  
The first annual Pwnie Awards are being held in Las Vegas, August 2nd, during the Black Hat USA 2007 security conference. The Pwnie nomination period closes on July 28th, so please head to the web site and nominate your favorites today. Pwnies will be awarded for each of the following categories: * Best Server-Side Bug * Best Client-Side Bug * Mass 0wnage * Most Innovative Research * Lamest Vendor Response * Most Overhyped Bug * Best Song read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 330 days ago
Via: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com | Tags: the influential people security today comments Discuss  
p font size= 2 It s never easy to come up with a definitive list of IT professionals with the most influence on the way we secure desktops networks and mobile devices. And limiting the list to 15 hackers is a near-impossible task but in my mind these are the folks who stand out today as stirring the imagination and forcing us to rethink our approach to security in an always-on world. font br p ...Free Embedded Linux Webinars 5 free embedded Linux webinars from Timesys. Topics include Toolset read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 260 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: us senate committee tackles net neutrality today comments Discuss  
Internet neutrality will be at the heart of a full U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation hearing Tuesday morning. With the expansive title "the future of the Internet," lawmakers will debate "developing applications, consumer expectations, and network operation" in light of new evidence by a Silicon Valley startup company that ISPs are widely throttling legal peer-to-peer (p-to-p) file sharing. read more »
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| Posted by Avatar Staff 87 days ago
Via: http://www.uninformed.org | Tags: exploiting tomorrows internet today penetration testing ipv comments Discuss  
This paper illustrates how IPv6-enabled systems with link-local and auto-configured addresses can be compromised using existing security tools. While most of the techniques described can apply to "real" IPv6 networks, the focus of this paper is to target IPv6-enabled systems on the local network. read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 77 days ago
Via: http://voices.washingtonpost.com | Tags: microsoft issue emergency security update today comments Discuss  
Microsoft said late Wednesday that it plans to break out of its monthly patch cycle to issue a security update today for a critical vulnerability in all supported versions of Windows. Redmond rarely releases security patches outside of Patch Tuesday, the second Tuesday of each month. The software giant isn't providing many details yet, but the few times it has departed from its Patch Tuesday cycle it has always done so to stop the bleeding...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry. read more »
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