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Firefox Extensions For Penetration Testing

By On November 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment

This year at the SecTor security conference in Toronto, Canada, Security Compass introduced a series of open source firefox extensions aiding in penetration testing exercises.

Illuminating the Black Art of Security. SecTor brings the world’s brightest (and darkest) minds together to identify, discuss, dissect and debate the latest digital threats facing corporations today. Unique to [...]

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Root Shell – The Holy Grail

By On October 9, 2008 · 1 Comment

The “Holy Grail” of any attack is the creation of a root shell. On UNIX/Linux, the “root” user is a superuser account that has the capability of running any process on the machine. An exploit will attempt to gain root access to a system by obtaining a root shell prompt from which any command [...]

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No-Tech Hacking

By On October 9, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Observation is one of the most important traits of a hacker. Johnny Long outlined at Defcon 15 last year in Las Vegas just how much observation and/or social engineering can go when gathering information.

His most recent book takes a look at how to defeat every conceivable high-tech security system by [...]

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