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Honey, I’m home!! – Hacking Z-Wave & other Black Hat news
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by Charl van der Walt
on
01 June 2013
You’ve probably never thought of this, but the home automation market in the US was worth approximately $3.2 billion in...
Twitter killed the (infosec) Blogging Star ?
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Posted
by Haroon Meer
on
10 November 2009
Like it, hate it or just plain struggling to understand it, Twitter has made a huge impact across a wide...
2 pieces of coolness…
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by Haroon Meer
on
11 September 2009
a) was the politely dropped kaminsky firefox bug [http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2009-September/070620.html] It still requires a click for command execution, but considering its...
John Viega’s “the myths of security”.. Really??
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by Haroon Meer
on
23 August 2009
i go through a ton of books. Over the past 10 years, this has been dominated by books on computer...
Apple gets some clue points?
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by Haroon Meer
on
13 May 2009
At [DeepSec] last year i had the pleasure of hearing Ivan Krsti? speak. While some of his arguments had (small)...
Episode 9 of the ITSecurity Pubcast..
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by Haroon Meer
on
11 May 2009
Yvette Du Toit (E&Y – UK/ZA) featured on the latest ITSecurity Pubcast and spoke about her role in CREST. SensePost...
Should InfoSec companies be betting on PCI ?
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by Haroon Meer
on
05 April 2009
The United States committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology recently held a hearing...
Like deja-vu (all over again)
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by Haroon Meer
on
20 March 2009
Those of you who were around in 2001 will recall http://anti.security.is (anti-sec f.a.q).. The sentiment pops up periodically (in different...
Top Ten Web Hacking Techniques of 2008
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Posted
by Haroon Meer
on
24 February 2009
(aka – Whoot! we are almost famous!!) Jeremiah Grossman’s panel of judges (Rich Mogull, Chris Hoff, HD Moore and RFP)...
HITB08 – Marcus Ranum Keynote on CyberWar..
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by Haroon Meer
on
22 February 2009
I just managed to pull the HackintheBox torrents for their [2008 talks]. (SensePosters can grab a local copy [here]). I...
Dont look now, but it seems they broke the Interwebs again..
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by Haroon Meer
on
29 December 2008
Those pesky hackers! Alex Sotirov (of heap feng shui fame, famous for breaking everything from Vista, to web browsers, to...
Wired Article on DNSGate..
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by Haroon Meer
on
26 November 2008
Wired magazine has covered the DNSGate saga with full dramatic details like: “never, ever repeat what you just told me...
“Unix Terrorist” in trouble over TJX ?
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by Haroon Meer
on
06 November 2008
Anyone who was around for Defcon-10 will have an opinion on the infamous Gobbles-Silvio-UnixTerrorist talk in which mail spools where...
Sarah Palin, a yahoo email account, and something more shocking…
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by Haroon Meer
on
18 September 2008
By now everyone knows that John McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin had her yahoo email account hacked. I guess a...
these tubes are quick
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by marco
on
24 July 2008
Kaminsky’s thunder has all but evaporated into a fine mist, and Ptacek has gone all silent. In the meantime, the...
What? no comment on the DNS thing ??
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by Haroon Meer
on
11 July 2008
Mostly we have stayed silent, because too many people have commented too much already.. It was interesting however how Ptacek...
Carpet Bombing and eating Crow…
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by Haroon Meer
on
12 June 2008
The recent Safari Carpet Bombing bug reported by Nitesh Dhanjani and ignored by Apple had all the makings of an...
If you run Debian (or a Debian Derivative, like Ubuntu)…
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by Haroon Meer
on
13 May 2008
Then you probably should get on this one… [Problems with Random Number Generator] While it looks like an arb openssl...
The Peltier Effect – Year in Review..
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by Haroon Meer
on
04 March 2008
Peltier and Associates have released their massive “Peltier Effect – Year in Review 2007“. The collection comes in at a...
SNMP Joins Dark Side in New XSS Attack
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by Haroon Meer
on
27 February 2008
-sigh- the topic is stolen directly from the [DarkReading Article] -snip- Itâ€s yet another new spin on a pervasive attack...
Dino Dai Zovi is such a Rock Star..
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by Haroon Meer
on
06 December 2007
Dino is the guy who added much shellcode coolness to MetaSploit, gave the world Karma, released the first virtualization rootkit...
reddit: exploit publisher?
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by marco
on
26 September 2007
saw this in my RSS reader, the null poison byte makes a comeback! Until it gets fixed, you can view...
How Gentoo got hacked.. holy #@^%&!!
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by Haroon Meer
on
30 August 2007
If a picture is worth a 1000 words, then i dont want to know what this reads…
Probably the best book dedication i have ever seen….
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Posted
by Haroon Meer
on
07 July 2007
Richard Bejtlich didnt give the pre-release a glowing review but i know at least a few people waiting eagerly to...
and then there was one….
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by Haroon Meer
on
19 June 2007
First IBM announced their interest in Watchfire, and now HP announces their interest in SPI Dynamics. “Consolidation in the industry”...
Safari on Win32, and browser choices in general..
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by Haroon Meer
on
12 June 2007
Gareth linked to David Maynor’s blog where he documents the results of some simple fuzzing against the new Win32 port...