miscellaneous security

An attempt to document all things security. As the nature of security requires a balanced knowledge of offensive and defensive techniques, if this tumblr wore a hat it would be grey.

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Posted 4 months ago

How The WPS Bug Came To Be, And How Ugly It Actually Is

http://dankaminsky.com/2012/01/26/wps2/
Posted 4 months ago

Secunia Security Advisory 47689

http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/109102/sa47689.txt
Posted 4 months ago

Attackers Using DNS Poisoning to Hijack Website Domains, Divert Traffic

http://news.hitb.org/content/attackers-using-dns-poisoning-hijack-website-domains-divert-traffic
Posted 4 months ago

Social Engineering Yourself A BotNet

http://www.social-engineer.org/social-engineering/social-engineering-yourself-a-botnet/
Posted 4 months ago

Weekly Metasploit Update: Subverting NATs, 64-bit LoadLibrary Support, and More!

https://community.rapid7.com/community/solutions/metasploit/blog/2012/01/25/metasploit-update
Posted 4 months ago

Exploits Emerge For Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/TsPmOFeE9ek/exploits-emerge-for-linux-privilege-escalation-flaw
Posted 4 months ago

Moxie Marlinspike pans Google privacy changes

http://news.hitb.org/content/moxie-marlinspike-pans-google-privacy-changes
Posted 4 months ago

15 worst Internet privacy scandals of all time

http://news.hitb.org/content/15-worst-internet-privacy-scandals-all-time
Posted 4 months ago

FBI to build social network spy app

http://news.hitb.org/content/fbi-build-social-network-spy-app
Posted 4 months ago

6 security companies to watch

http://news.hitb.org/content/6-security-companies-watch