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- Practical Packet Analysis: Using Wireshark to Solve Real-World Network Problems by Chris Sanders
- Apache: Inside the Cockpit of the World’s Most Deadly Fighting Machine by Ed Macy
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Security Tools update

February 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Over the last week or so a number of new tools have been release either for the first time or as updated versions:

tcpreplay is now at version 3.4.0 with a number of significant bugfixes. This staple of packet analysis allows for the replay of captured pcap file back over network interfaces. Its a great way [...]

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Wordpress and dealing with incoming hacks

June 7th, 2008 · No Comments

The other day morning stated out with a conversation with darb that went as follows:
DARB: so…wordpress hey?
BVI: I got over writing my own code
BVI: now I’m waiting for my blog to be 0wn3d
DARB: you know wordpress is the equivalent of an 8ft tall ogre that stands outside looking pretty, smashes tables when he tries to [...]

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Layer 2 security is still important

June 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Richard Bejtlich posted a few days ago about the ‘hack’ on the Metasploit webserver as reported by SunBelt. What is interesting is that the actual website wasnt compromised, but rather another system on the same VLAN at the hosting provider which then performed some ARP spoofing magic against the gateway, in effect redirecting traffic to [...]

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