Live Hacking CD vs. Backtrack 4
The idea for doing this comparison came to me after seeing some back-and-forth on twitter between @attritionorg and @dralijahangiri about the Live Hacking CD. After @attritionorg called the point of the Live Hacking CD into question (when Backtrack 4 is already available), Dr. Ali Jahangiri made claims that “Live Hacking CD is much easier than [...]
Password Masking
I’m going to have to disagree with Bruce Schneier and Jakob Nielson on this one:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/06/the_problem_wit_2.html
I, and many other users, are often in situations where we are in the position of logging into systems in the vicinity of people with which we wouldn’t want to share the password.
Let’s look at the arguments against masking from the [...]
Man-in-the-middle Fake DNS for Metasploit
On Episode 116 of PaulDotCom Security Weekly, Paul mentioned how it would be nice if one could have a little bit finer control over the behavior of Metasploit’s fake DNS server. It seemed like an easy enough hack, so I’ve thrown this together. I can see this being useful in some situations, and hopefully you [...]
Really clever Vista trick!
Edit: The real action’s going on down below here in the comments :) . Be sure to catch up on them after you read the post.
Jesse Varsalone, a computer forensics expert that happens to be a reader of this site, just emailed me a link to a cool video where he demonstrates a quick and easy [...]