BackTrack Linux 5 R2 Released

Mar 09, 2012

Full release of BackTrack Linux 5 R2 is now available.

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Charly’s Column: w3af The sys admin’s daily grind: w3af

Mar 02, 2012

After toiling away to create a small but exclusive website, Charly wanted to run a security scanner against it to check for vulnerabilities. The choice of tools is enormous, but Charly chose w3af.

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Charly’s Column: PortSentry The sys admin’s daily grind: PortSentry

Feb 02, 2012

To celebrate 10 years of his column, Charly sets up a sensitive detector that measures the cosmic background radiation of the Internet.

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Anonymous: Activist Hackers in the Headlines

Jan 30, 2012

The Anonymous Hacktivist group has been in many headlines this past year. Who are they? What did they attack? How do they communicate?

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Wireshark 1.6 Released

Jun 08, 2011

The Wireshark free network sniffer rolls out 1.6 release with advanced features.

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BackTrack 5 "revolution" Rolls Out

May 11, 2011

BackTrack, an Ubuntu-based penetration-testing distribution, offers "major improvements" over previous releases, including support for 32- and 64-bit architectures, KDE 4, Gnome, and Fluxbox.

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Snort Helpers Snort Helpers: Open Source Network Intrusion Detection

May 02, 2011

Snort is the de facto standard for open source network intrusion detection. The developer community has kept a fairly low profile for a couple of years, but extensions like Snorby, OpenFPC, and Pulled Pork have given the old hog a new lease on life.

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Red Hat Summit and JBoss World: May 3-6

Apr 13, 2011

Red Hat announces IBM, Accenture, Alfresco, Cisco, HP and Intel representatives are scheduled to deliver keynotes at the seventh annual Red Hat Summit and JBoss World, May 3-6, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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