[ad] Interesting, a new arena for marketing spin and sales talk – the auctioning of exploits. WabiSabiLabi is pushing hard for a good price for a ClamAV vulnerability and exploit that it has gotten hold of, it’s dosing it up with a good portion of spin to make it seem like the next big thing […]
Archives for 2007
fwtest – Firewall Testing Toolkit
[ad] The firewall test suite fwtest is a security auditing tool made up of two parts: the test control application fwtest and optionally one or two helper processes named fwagent. The test control application fwtest starts up the python interpreter with the given test script. The test script controls the packet data flow between two […]
Security Software Moves to Consoles – Web Filtering for PS3
[ad] Ah it seems some companies are having the same idea as me, consoles might well be the next infection vector for zombie style botnets, they have good processing power, the current generation has ample hard-drive space and they are network connected. The difference with consoles is they tend to be turned off when not […]
Chaosreader – Trace TCP/UDP Sessions from tcpdump
[ad] A freeware tool to trace TCP/UDP sessions and fetch application data from snoop or tcpdump logs. This is a type of “any-snarf” program, as it will fetch telnet sessions, FTP files, HTTP transfers (HTML, GIF, JPEG), SMTP emails and so on from the captured data inside network traffic logs. Similar to tcpflow which we […]
UK Consumers Lose Faith in ‘Phished’ Brands
[ad] It seems Phishing is have effects in ways that weren’t originally obvious, it comes back to the same topic we generally discuss here when it comes to security and consumers. IGNORANCE. Someone consumers see a Phishing attempt from ‘Brand X‘ as a negative against that brand…even though it has absolutely nothing to do with […]