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RFP for PenTesting

July 11, 2007 – 8:53 am

eWeek has a decent RFP template you can use when selecting a company to provide PenTest services. It’s not perfect but it is a great start if you have nothing. The RFP is on page 44 of the July9th issue.
If you happen to be looking for those services check out NMI InfoSecurity Solutions. They produce […]

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Declassified window film stops wireless / cell signals

July 6, 2007 – 9:50 am

I saw this one on Slashdot the other day science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/03/0228246&from=rss
Quote from article:
“Once manufactured under an exclusive contract with the US government, this recently declassified window film is now available to the public. But don’t expect to see it on store shelves anytime soon. Currently, it’s only available directly from the manufacturer, […]

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List of Malware Analysis tool from SANS

November 3, 2006 – 11:07 pm

The Internet Storm Center at SANS has a post with a list of Malware Analysis tools submitted mostly by readers. If you are thinking about dissecting that piece of malware you just found, take a look at this list of helpers. Unless you do this a lot you’ve probably never heard of most of these […]

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Malware Analyzing Sandbox

November 3, 2006 – 10:47 pm

The clever folks over at Sunbelt Software have created a great free service to analyze malware samples called CWSandbox. How it works is you upload your suspected malware sample to their site. The CWSandbox then runs the malware and gives you a detailed report of what it did, it’s name if known, and a bunch […]

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Free Windows Honeypot from NetVigilance

November 2, 2006 – 2:12 pm

VA provider NetVigilance has released a free Honeypot for Windows called WinHoneyd. It is a low-interaction (it simulates services such as RPC, HTTP, FTP, etc.) honeypot based on the Open Source honeyd software written by Niels Provos. Instructions, sample configs and FAQ’s can be found on the NetVigilance site.
–Chris
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Ajax based port scanner

October 27, 2006 – 10:41 am

In the “WEB 2.0″ world we live in it was a matter of time before Ajax security tools showed up. Ener OPScanner, an Ajax based port scanner. I definitely wouldn’t start making plans to replace NMAP with it. It’s more a novelty and a useful way to can yourself when making basic firewall or ACL […]

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Web based VMX file creator

October 18, 2006 – 7:35 am

If you do any sort of sandbox / Honyepot work like me you probably use VMWare Virtual Machines. When you create a VM the configuration settings are saved in a file with the .vmx extension. This file is a simple text file with name value pairs. Mike over at MikeTechShow.com posted a link to EasyVMX, […]

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Bootable Linux security distros

September 26, 2006 – 10:47 pm

Darknet.org.uk has a pretty good list of Linux distributions that are geared to security tasks like pentesting, forensics and nsm. The good thing about this list is that these are Live CD’s. This means you can drop them into your CD a boot into a working Linux distro without affecting the currently installed operating system. […]

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