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Microsoft Patches At Least 34 Bugs Including Pwn2Own Vulnerability

June 9, 2010 | 9,823 views

What a massive mother-load of patches Microsoft has unleashed on this month patching more than 34 security vulnerabilities including the fairly high profile vulnerability exploited at the Pwn2Own contest earlier this year in April. Good news as long as all the average Internet users actually use Windows Update and install the latest patches, which somehow […]

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Tags: IE, IE-security, internet explorer patch, internet explorer security, internet-explorer, microsoft, microsoft black tuesday, microsoft patch tuesday, microsoft patches, patch-tuesday, pwn2own, pwn2own patch, sans, windows, windows patches, windows-security

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UK Government To Launch ‘Hack Idol’

October 13, 2009 | 9,476 views

Now this should be interesting, perhaps they should turn it into a hacking based reality TV show? From the description though it looks more centered around defense than offense and perhaps should be called ‘System Administrator Idol’. Not quite so catchy though is it. Well at least they doing something to try and nurture talent […]

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Tags: cyberdefenders, hack idol, hacking, hacking idol, hacking talent, hacking talent contest, hacking-news, mentoring, sans, uk hacking contest

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DShield Web Honeypot Project – Alpha Version Released

February 20, 2009 | 6,548 views

For those of you who are not familiar with DShield (where have you been? under a rock?) it’s a Cooperative Network Security Community. Basically what that means is they collect firewall logs and map out the trends. Like when there was a worm going around that bruteforced SSH2 you could see a spike in port […]

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Tags: community project, Countermeasures, dshield, dshield honeypot, dshield web honeypot, honeypot, isc, sans, Security Software, Web Hacking, web honeypot

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NSA Together With Mitre CWE and SANS Identifies Top 25 Programming Errors

February 17, 2009 | 16,351 views

Secure programming is a huge issue and it’s the lack of it that causes all the problems we have with vulnerabilities and the exploits associated with them. If everywhere developers followed secure programming practices we wouldn’t have buffer overflow issues or unsanitized parameters leading to SQL Injection. The NSA (National Security Agency), working with MITRE, […]

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Tags: application-security, code-audit, hacking-software, mitre, mitre cwe, NSA, pen-testing, penetration-testing, programming errors, sans, software-hacking, vulnerabilities, web-application-security

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SANS Top 20 Vulnerabilities Published for 2007

December 7, 2007 | 4,075 views

It’s that time of the year, our annual christmas present – the Sans Top 20 Vulnerabilities for 2007. The SANS Top 2007 list is not “cumulative.” We include only critical vulnerabilities from the past year or so. If you have not patched your systems for long time, it would be wise to patch the vulnerabilities […]

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SANS Gateway Asia 2006

June 27, 2006 | 4,026 views

Forgot to post this earlier. I received this email from SANS Institute sometime in April. They seem to be having two of their training sessions in singapore in August. Those who live in Asia or anywhere near the region and are interested can look it up. SANS Institute has one of the best trainers and […]

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Tags: GCIA, GCIH, GSEC, infosec-asia, sans, SANS-Singapore, singapore

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Predicting Malware – Events Trigger Malware/Phishing Spikes

June 10, 2006 | 3,582 views

Apologies for the lack of updates for the past few days, I had to go abroad for an important assessment ;) It’s sad how people can pray on things as terrible as disasters to make a quick buck, but well we have to face the facts that they do, and will. And as it seems, […]