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German anti-hacker law bites hard
August 21 2007
The recent change to German law to implement the EU Framework Decision on Attacks against Information Systems (enacted in Paragraph 202c of the German Penal Code) has caused many security researchers based in Germany to look to move elsewhere, or to remove previously available research findings. The change in the… read moreRunning Nessus 3 on Windows XP
August 06 2007
I recently had reason to spend a while working with Nessus on Windows XP (Service Pack 2). Usually, I use a Nessus Server running on Linux, either running locally if I am onsite, or one installed on our company infrastructure for scanning from the Internet. In fact, you read the… read moreDetecting hosts bridging your network to a wireless network
August 04 2007
Update: Ron Gula corrected me on this - this is available on the free registered feed. A little while back I spotted this article on the Tenable Blog in reading my morning RSS feeds - Tenable have added a plugin with the ability to interrogate Windows machines for the wireless… read moreDetecting hosts bridging your network to a wireless network
July 30 2007
A little while back I spotted this article on the Tenable Blog in reading my morning RSS feeds - Tenable have added a plugin with the ability to interrogate Windows machines for the wireless SSID that they are currently associated to. Why would this be handy? How about to identify… read moreJuly 10 2006
Recently I decided for some reason to run my site (also, like the O’Reilly blogs, based on Moveable Type) through the W3C Validator to check to see if I was generating valid XHTML. If you’ve ever done this, you shouldn’t be surprised to find out that my site was anything… read moreJuly 10 2006
Its getting to that time of year when thousands of security professionals and hackers congregate in Las Vegas for the Blackhat and Defcon conferences. My company is generously sending me and a few colleagues to Sin City to attend :-) The Blackhat line up is pretty strong, and this year… read moreBeta release of the Oedipus Web Application Scanner is released...
June 09 2006
Related link: http://oedipus.rubyforge.org The Oedipus Web Application Scanner project (that I am involved in some of the development) has just released it’s first beta release - version 1.8.1. Oedipus is a penetration testing focused tool, designed for penetration testers, and for technical security or web development folks to test their applications… read moreBeta release of the Oedipus Web Application Scanner is released...
April 07 2006
The Oedipus Web Application Scanner project (that I am involved in some of the development) has just released it's first beta release - version 1.8.1. Oedipus is a penetration testing focused tool, designed for penetration testers, and for technical security or web development folks to test their applications for… read more
