Honestly, I always thought it’s ok..
Why not, if someone puts a seat in the middle of a public walkway I can sit on it right? I don’t need to ask permissions, nor fear I am doing something wrong.
Likewise if someone broadcasts an open wireless network into my house or office or a public space, I [...]

Basically the Americans are saying a lot of their sensitive govermental organisations are using Snort and they don’t want the software to be controlled by an Israeli company, they see it as a threat.
The same Bush administration review panel that approved a ports deal involving the United Arab Emirates has notified a leading Israeli software [...]

At the place I pretend to work, the time has come that most developers equally fear and love, upgrade time. We’ve been using MSSQL2000 for 90% of our work for about 4 years now, and it’s served us well, but when a change as big as 2005 server comes along, you have to make the [...]

Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman’s original trade-off, with better performance. It recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in seconds.
We mentioned it in our RainbowCrack and Rainbow Tables article.

Changes:

(feature) support of the new table set (alphanum + 33 special chars – [...]

Internet Storm Center’s always informative Diary has some good information.
At the urging of Handler Extraordinaire Kyle Haugsness, I tested the sploit on a box with software-based DEP and DropMyRights… here are the results:
Software-based DEP protecting core Windows programs: sploit worked
Software-based DEP protecting all programs: sploit worked
DropMyRights, config’ed to allow IE to run (weakest form of [...]

One way to defend against OS fingerprinting from tools such as nmap, queso, p0f, xprobe etc is to change the metrics that they base their analysis on.
One way to do this with OpenBSD is to use Sealing Wafter.
Goals of Sealing Wafter:
1. To reduce OS detection based on well known fingerprints network stack behavior.
2. To have [...]

Ever wanted to download those cool videos from youtube.com? (Its an online video storage site similar to imageshack.us for storing images) and can’t because those peeps made it difficult for you to just download them offline? Well now you can !!

Go to fileleecher.com and follow the instructions on how to copy the youtube.com [...]

Good I say, nothing worse than a spammer.
A bulk e-mailer who looted more than a billion records with personal information from a data warehouse has been sentenced to eight years in prison, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
Scott Levine, 46, was sentenced by a federal judge in Little Rock, Ark., after being found guilty of breaking into [...]

Is Open Source more secure? That’s a question that can be answered with both yes and no. Not only that, but the reasons for the “yes” and the “no” are fairly much the same. Because you can see the source the task of hacking or exploiting it is made easier, but at the same time [...]

Introduction
kArp is a linux patch that allows one to implement ARP hijacking in the kernel, but control it easily via userland. You may configure, enable and disable kArp via ProcFS or the sysctl mechanism.
kArp is implemented almost on the device driver level. Any ethernet driver (including 802.11 drivers) is supported. The kArp code is [...]

The main thing is the massive kernel overhaul, it’s actually adding some decent functionality and refining the architecture to become more like Linux!
While the kernel in Vista is still primarily the same one as in Windows 2000 and XP, there have been some significant changes to tighten up security. Fewer parts of the OS [...]

Version 1.2 (Beta) of the pwdump6 software has been released.
There are three major changes from the previous version:

Uses “random” named pipes (GUIDs) to allow concurrent copies of the client to run. This is predominately for the next version of fgdump, which will be multithreaded.
Will turn off password histories if the requisite APIs are not available [...]

Is it ethical or even legal to charge for other peoples work?
As far as I know France seems have some pretty strong (and weird) copyright laws.

And yes, they are blaming French Laws prohibiting full disclosure.
In conformity with applicable French laws prohibiting Full-disclosure, the FrSIRT will no longer distribute exploits and PoCs on its public [...]

Im a tinkerer. I can’t say I’m expert in anything more than ASP and MSSQL, but I make a point of playing and learning anything new and wanky. I’ve tweaked dBase, fiddled with Python, installed Apache, destroyed MS2003 server, plugged in SUN boxes, screamed at VisualStudio, urinated on Fedora, set fire too Game [...]

No it’s not AJAX Amsterdam… it’s something more interesting (or boring to some of you)… so let’s get it started….
I. Introduction
AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML… It is a new technology which comes to help any web developer who really is interesed in dynamic webpages…
Click here for a overview of the AJAX Technology…
II. The [...]

I’ve seen quite a lot of discussion lately on how to ‘defend against nmap’ or how to change the properties of your TCP/IP Stack so your Windows OS appears to be something else (As in you can guess the OS from the TTL value passed back in a TCP/IP packet).
One way you can do this [...]

Each day I check out the technology section of the bbc site, ok, its not the most in-depth, or techy site in the world, but it covers interesting stuff.
One interesting article http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4816520.stm talks about getting a mac to run windows. That in it self is quite cool, but to my mind its the wrong way.
Who [...]

The fact is Windows is getting ripped apart with viruses, spamware, spyware, zombie clients, trojans worms and whatever else you can think of.
Mac and Linux aren’t (at the moment), there are already Bluetooth viruses, so why not Linux and Mac..
Some may say it’s because they are inherently more secure, the architecture and user privelege seperationg [...]

This is old news to those who already knows about it (Found out about it last year and tested it till now). But i just had to try it before actually posting it up.
Do you get tired of being in an elevator and someone else gets on every other floor in between the floors [...]

Shaolin introduced him self, and said he had asked every one to do like wise. News to me mate or did that slip my mind? Can’t see how it could but one never knows…
So, any way, who the hell am I? I have known Shaolin for years, he might have some idea how [...]