KMIP – New Encryption Protocol

Friday, February 13th, 2009

A number of industry heavywights have unveiled the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP), a new specification jointly developed by Brocade, EMC, HP, IBM, LSI, Seagate and Thales. "Our customers' IT environments are growing in complexity and, at the same time, these companies are under extreme pressures to meet compliance regulations and ...

Denial of Service using Partial GET Request in Mozilla Firefox 3.06

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

The Partial GET Request (HTTP 206 Status Code) of a WAV file results in a Denial of Service of the application. Last HTTP packet from Firefox before the DoS is listed below in RAW format: GET /fpaudio/footprints_waves.wav HTTP/1.1 Accept: */* User-Agent: NSPlayer/11.0.6001.7001 WMFSDK/11.0 UA-CPU: x86 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Range: bytes=34848- Unless-Modified-Since: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:44:57 GMT If-Range: "4f0018-440f2-434d403204440" Host: ...

Privacy on Facebook

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

This is an excellent article that lists 10 ways to protect your privacy on Facebook.  Read the article for the full details, but here's a quick summary: Use Your Friend Lists Remove Yourself From Facebook Search Results Remove Yourself From Google Avoid the Infamous Photo/Video Tag Mistake Protect Your Albums ...

Crooks set cyber traps on Digg

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

PandaLabs, a computer security firm, is reporting that cyber-crooks are setting traps on popular news-sharing website Digg. Criminals pose as legitimate Digg members and then entice readers with bogus links to scintillating online video in comments posted in forums related to celebrity news, according to the Spain-based firm. Digg is a website ...

BackTrack 4 Beta Released

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

This is it!  After many months of effort from the Remote Exploit Dev team, BackTrack 4 Beta is ready and available.  I thought I'd post up some "getting started" notes, to help people out with the first surge of questions. Default password to BackTrack 4 hasn't changed, still root / toor. KDE ...