[ad] This case has been going on for a while but obviously hush hush, being that it is the largest breach of customer data in U.S. History. The details of the case have only started emerging in the last couple of months. Information Week published a good article covering what has been going on recently. […]
Archives for September 2007
httprint Download – Web Server Fingerprinting Tool
httprint is a web server fingerprinting tool. I was looking through my toolbox to see what else is useful and I came across this one, httprint – the only caveat is that it’s a little out of date. It still does a good job though. How does httprint work? It relies on web server characteristics […]
Gentoo Pulls the Plug after Getting Pwned
[ad] Gentoo Pulls the Plug after Getting Pwned Gentoo pulled quite a few of it’s servers recently following the discovery of a fairly severe flaw in it’s systems. Just to show that Linux systems aren’t invulnerable and immune to all security issues. Ubuntu suffered quite heavily recently too, so don’t assume just because you use […]
aircrack-ptw – Fast WEP Cracking Tool for Wireless Hacking
WEP is a protocol for securing wireless LANs. WEP stands for “Wired Equivalent Privacy” which means it should provide the level of protection a wired LAN has. WEP therefore uses the RC4 stream to encrypt data which is transmitted over the air, using usually a single secret key (called the root key or WEP key) […]
Voting Machines Lose to Hackers Again
[ad] I’m sure everyone remembers the Diebold voting fiasco with their system getting pwned multiple times. Back in May 2006 it was announced from multiple sources that the Diebold system was critically flawed. Then more recently Hackers in the Philippines were Invited to Crack Internet Voting, which is definitely positive step to increase security in […]