Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
For consumers, open up the Preferences panel and click on "Trust Manager" in the left pane. Clear the check box "Allow opening of non-PDF file attachments with external applications".
For administrators who wish to accomplish this with a registry setting on Windows, add the following DWORD value to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\\Originals
Name: bAllowOpenFile
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: ...
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Here's a nice little cheatsheet for NMAP 5 making it's rounds today on the internet:
http://sbdtools.googlecode.com/files/Nmap5%20cheatsheet%20eng%20v1.pdf
Very handy.
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Friday, January 29th, 2010
Google has recently launched an "experimental new incentive" that could reward security researchers for their bugs in the Chrome browser (all versions - stable, beta, and dev) or in the open source Chromium project itself. Their base reward is identical to Mozilla's at $500, but they are offering a higher ...
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
This is a tool for security researchers. It allows you to search for either an IP address or a DNS name and display all associated domain names known to Bing.
Download:
http://bingprobe.codeplex.com/
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Sunday, January 17th, 2010
While I was updating my VMs today with the final version of BackTrack 4 I decided to jump in and take a look at the new IE 0day exploit that was added to MetaSploit a couple of days ago. It works surprisingly well. I had 100% success rate with IE6. ...
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