The Security Fix blog reports, along with the latest round of Microsoft exploits, that an anonymous hacker has won the iDefense Vulnerability Challenge.
What a payday eh? Ethical Hacking does have its uses!
Exerpt:
“Speaking of iDefense (scoop alert!) … remember back in February when I wrote about iDefense offering their “quarterly vulnerability challenge,” a $10,000 [...]

While doing some daily reading, I came across a good article on CNN. It states that with the click of the mouse complete strangers can find Social Security numbers, birthdates, bank loans and even digitized signatures that a clever thief could easily manipulate onto official-looking documents. Basically everything anyone would need to steal your [...]

For those of you familiar with the the specification (and for those of you who aren’t) (which is estimated to become official in April of 2008) it appears that the Task Group charged with creating the specification does not seem to have intentions to implement protection for control frames on the wireless network.
This means it [...]

Ars Technica has an article with some updates on the network neutrality issue that has been terrorizing us as of late.  It mainly has to do with the rumblings caused by the measure not being enacted by Congress last Thursday.
The problem I see with this is the massive amount of taxpayer money that has gone [...]

In case you’ve never heard of it. Intrusion Detection is the process of identifying anomalous traffic on a network. It’s what a couple of us who maintain this website do for our jobs.
In basic terms, the idea is to monitor traffic both incoming to and outgoing from a given network to try and [...]