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- Why many MCSEs won't learn Linux
- Here's the entirety of a note by discussion contributor nhudd responding to my e-mail exchange with "MCSE Mike": On behalf of MCSE Mike's everywhere... Paul, I think that the vast majority of techs/geeks out there can relate to MCSE Mike's question at the top...
- Tags: MCSE, Newcomer, Nathan, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Is Nintendo about to challenge Jenny Craig?
- Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk investigates the power of Nintendo's Wii and virtual gaming to improve the health and well being of society. Depending on whose statistics you prefer to disbelieve, between 15 and 25 percent of American children are overweight. The causes seem evident...
- Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Fact, Nintendo Wii, Nathan, Games, Personal Technology, Chris Matyszczyk
- Blog posts 2008-02-16
- Nathan's Second Chance (exe)
- What do you expect when you die? Shining light? Booming voice? Rotting slowly in the ground? You probably don't expect to be greeted by an eccentric crone in a flying yellow bus, but then, neither does Nathan. Follow one man's journey as he travels across New Zealand, space and his...
- Tags: Nathan, Telecommunications
- Software downloads 2006-03-30
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- McAfee's HackerSafe: "Um... we go in like a super hacker"
- Updated 05/16/2008 2:00 p.m. CST: I officially have my first customer for the "Nate McFeters Safe" certification and Jeremiah Grossman and I have signed up another member for Scanless PCI, as noted security researcher Russ McRee has purchased our certifications, see http://holisticinfosec.blogspot.com. God is good and created YouTube for laughs...
- Tags: Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Safari "Carpet Bomb" attack information released
- Nitesh Dhanjani released information about some of his newest research on the Safari web browser this morning, and interestingly enough, Apple has decided NOT to fix some of the issues he presented. Dhanjani reported three issues, as follows below from his blog: 1. Safari Carpet Bomb.It...
- Tags: HTML, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Issue, Safari Carpet Bomb.It, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- With the Quickness: HD Moore sets new land speed record with exploitation of Debian/Ubuntu OpenSSL flaw
- So, for those who haven't heard, a Debian packager modified the source used for OpenSSL on Debian based systems Debian and the whole of the Ubuntu family to remove the seed used for PRNG Pseudo Random Number Generator used when creating SSL keys. Well, HD Moore set a new record...
- Tags: OpenSSL, SSH, Debian, Key, Flaw, HD, ID, Ssl/Tls, Operating Systems, Open Source, Security, Software, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Aviv Raff drops an 0-day for IE 7.0 and 8.0b on XP
- I've been busy all day and just haven't been able to get to it until now, but Aviv Raff is a seriously bad man. I follow his blog religiously as he always has some cool stuff going on and a lot of it tends to be thought provoking for other...
- Tags: HTML, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Blog, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Aviv Raff, Blogging, Web Browsers, Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Security Researcher to release Cisco rootkit at EUSecWest
- According to good friend Robert McMillan of IDG News, Sebastian Muniz, a researcher with Core Security Technologies, has developed malicious rootkit software for Cisco's routers, which he will release on May 22 at the EuSecWest conference in London. This will mark the first time at least publicly that someone has released a...
- Tags: Black Hat, Cisco IOS, Router, Cisco Systems Inc., Robert McMillan, Rootkits, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Details, details, details... more on the Microsoft flaws from today
- Thought I'd explore some of these bugs a bit more... first, Tipping Point released one of the vulnerabilities that Larry reported earlier, listed as a stack overflow issue in Microsoft Office Jet Database Engine. The stack overflow isn't what's interesting, what's interesting is the attack vector itself. To be fair to...
- Tags: Vulnerability, Microsoft Corp., Database Engine, iDefense, Flaw, Exploitation, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, CSS, Microsoft Office, Security, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- McAfee isn't "McAfee Secure" or "Hacker Safe"
- In my most recent discussion on McAfee, I posted a talkback to Russ McRee stating, tongue in cheek mind you, that it'd be interesting to see an XSS or SQL Injection on McAfee's site, see if they are indeed "McAfee Secure". Well, I guess you get what you ask for......
- Tags: McAfee Inc., XSS, Hacker, Tool, Productivity, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- McAfee's HackerSafe: When all else fails, rebrand it!
- Not to beat a dead horse, that's already been beaten to death time and time again, but... Update 05/12/08: Russ McRee has actually just posted a story about "Why PCI DSS is Doomed". Came across this page on McAfee's site about their "McAfee Secure", "McAfee...
- Tags: Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- News to know: Vista troubleshooting, RIM, XP SP3, Apple, SAP
- Notable headlines: XP SP3: Now on Windows Update Ed Bott: Fixing Windows Vista, Part 3: Top Troubleshooting Tools [See Gallery] David Morgenstern: Is Mac OS X Leopard, Safari 3.x too dark? Larry Dignan: Cisco third...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Microsoft Windows Update, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Windows Vista, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Can I interest you in a glass of Berry Blue Kool-Aid?: A recap of Microsoft Blue Hat v7
- Hey all, I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend Microsoft Blue Hat v 7 as I had some research that Microsoft was interested in bringing me in to talk about. Microsoft got to have co-worker and fellow researcher Rob Carter and I in to talk...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Blogging, Team Management, Internet, Management, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Hot off the wire: Windows XP SP3 available from Windows Update
- From Paul Miller at Engadget: "At last the moment you've been waiting for. Microsoft wants to hit your version of Windows with an update, and this time you don't have to go rummaging around the internet to find it: just fire up Windows Update and let Microsoft do all...
- Tags: Security, Microsoft Windows Update, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- House of Hackers social community opens up
- PDP, the leader of the Gnucitizen White Hat Hacker outfit announced the opening of the House of Hackers social community yesterday. The House of Hackers is intended to enable its members to exchange ideas with each other, communicate, form groups, elite circles and tiger/red teams, conglomerate around projects, and participate in...
- Tags: Community, Network, Member, Hacker, Gnucitizen White Hat Hacker, House, Hacking, Social Networking, Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Hacking NASA: One small step for man, one giant leap for hackers?
- The CORE Security Team released an advisory to the Full-Disclosure mailing list today that documented a stack overflow in NASA's Common Data Format libs. Looking at this bug, the tech details aren't overwhelming, I think I'm mostly excited about it due to the high profile of hacking NASA libs. One...
- Tags: NASA, Vulnerability, Hacker, Exploitation, Common Data Format 3.2.1, Security, Patches, Hacking, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- News to know: MicroNoHoo, OpenSolaris, 10 reasons for IT failure; Apple
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Microsoft walks away from Yahoo: Assessing winners, losers and Plan Bs Microsoft walks: Five reasons why it's a good move Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft takes its ball and leaves Yahoo on the Web 2.0 playground Dan Farber: Yang...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Web, OpenSolaris, Information Technology, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Enomaly, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Microsoft Windows, Sales Strategy, Strategy, Open Source, Marketing, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Morse Code Rickroll 0-day... no, seriously, I mean it
- In the security research world, getting Rickrolled has become a global epidemic. If you've been to any of the recent conferences, you're sure to have been Rickrolled at least once... if you were fortunate enough to be at ToorCon Seattle, then you got Rickrolled about 300 times by Dan Kaminsky....
- Tags: Morse Plc., I/O, XSS, Encryption, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-04
- More bad news for McAfee, HackerSafe certification
- Dan Godin posted a great article that was picked up by The Register a couple days ago about continued challenges for McAfee's newly purchased HackerSafe division. I find the article interesting as HackerSafe uses a scanning tool that probes for web application security flaws... of course, tools are limited in...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., Security, Certification, Vulnerability, XSS, HackerSafe, Godin, Goodin, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Apple and AT&T providing free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users and oops... to everyone else as well!
- You have to love security through obscurity... A friend of mine on a private mailing list passed me a link to a story on macrumors.com, which was quite interesting. Apparently, Apple and AT&T has decided to provide free wireless access to iPhone users at places like Starbucks. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Wi-Fi Access, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Starbucks Corp., User Agent, MacRumors, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
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