Ah Metasploit development cycle seems to be picking up, I guess with greater community support the bugs get ironed out and the new features introduced faster.
Good to see an update so soon after Metasploit Framework v3.0 was released.
I keep closely up to date with Metasploit as it’s pretty much the best free tool out there [...]
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 Linux you’re safe.
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Damn Vulnerable Linux (DVL) is a Linux-based (modified Damn Small Linux) tool for IT-Security & IT-Anti-Security and Attack & Defense. It was initiated for training tasks during university lessons by the IITAC (International Institute for Training, Assessment, and Certification) and S²e – Secure Software Engineering in cooperation with the French Reverse Engineering Team.
Damn Vulnerable Linux [...]
Finally it’s out of BETA, Metasploit Framework Version 3.0 has been released and it’s a lot more Windows friendly.
The Metasploit Framework (”Metasploit”) is a development platform for creating security tools and exploits. Version 3.0 contains 177 exploits, 104 payloads, 17 encoders, and 3 nop modules. Additionally, 30 auxiliary modules are included that perform a wide [...]
The first round results of the Linux Reverse Engineering Hacker Challenge are out!
http://www.hackerchallenge.org
It was expected that an intermediate hacker with Linux experience should be able to defeat the protection(s) in less than 10 hours. Participants may earn up to $4100 USD.
A total of 93 individuals registered to participate in the first Hacker Challenge. Individuals were [...]
The Metasploit Framework is an advanced open-source exploit development platform. The 3.0 tree represents a complete rewrite of the 2.0 codebase and provides a scalable and extensible framework for security tool development. The 3.0 Beta 3 release includes support for exploit automation, 802.11 wireless packet injection, and kernel-mode payloads.
Windows users are now presented with a [...]
The Metasploit Framework is an advanced open-source exploit development platform. The 2.7 release includes three user interfaces, 157 exploits and 76 payloads.The Framework will run on any modern operating system that has a working Perl interpreter. The Windows installer includes a slimmed-down version of the Cygwin environment.
Windows users are encouraged to update as soon [...]
A working version of the exploit used to escalate priveleges to root in the recent Debian breakin, ah another root kernel exploit.
It’s to do with the way the kernel handles file persmissions (or lack of) on core dumps.
Linux kernel is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability.
A local attacker may gain elevated privileges by creating a [...]
Ah, I wonder what happened?
I’ve always been a great fan of Debian, all the way back into the early days of woody and backporting apt packages.
What a name too, gluck to me usually means g’luck or good luck
Early this morning we discovered that someone had managed to compromise gluck.debian.org. We’ve taken the [...]
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 [...]
