This review of June’s event is more than a little late, but it was still a great event. The format was different this time around, with an open podium. This produced some interesting and unexpected topics, the first being an introduction into the world of geocaching from Alastair McDonald. Alastair’s talk caught me unawares as […]
Monthly archives: July 2009
Starting out with physical security
Several months ago I was involved in a discussion focusing on steps taken to secure information systems, and came to the realisation that all the counter measures and protections where network and system based. As a joke I asked what was the point if someone could pick the building locks and walk out with the […]
Damn Vulnerable Web App, version 1.0.4
Ryan Dewhurst of ethicalhack3r.co.uk has created and been maintaining Damn Vulnerable Web App (DVWA). The goal of the project is to aid learning and teaching of the art of web application security. Ryan provided an overview and demo of the suite at a recent SuperMondays open podium event, you can find an archive of the […]
Good night Milw0rm
Final Update: Crisis averted, Milw0rm is still up and functioning. Looks like Milw0rm is calling it a night. Haven’ t been able to get any official word as the site is unavailable. As the site is now unavailable it’s hard to tell what happened, but an ISC diary has this message from the site: Well, […]
kismet2gmapstatic: Updated versions
I’ve spent the day adding some additional functionality to my GPS mapping proof of concept (original here). The second release, kismet2gmapstatic-0_2.py, changes the scripts output to wrap the Google maps API call in a self contained HTML page, and contains multiple map images to mitigate the URL length limit. The third release, kismet2gmapstatic-0_3.py, builds on […]
BU-353 GPS Reciever
Recently added to my wireless toolkit is a USB GPS reciever. After a fair amount of research and some advice from more experience guys I ended up with the Globalsat BU-353 device below: (If you can’t make it out, that is a British 10p for size comparison) Unsurprisingly given some of my previous posts, the […]
kismet2gmapstatic (PoC)
I’m still following my recent interest in wireless networks and devices. In the past month I gained a USB gps reciever (which I forgot to write about, may have a short review shortly). After adding gps capability to my wardrive setup I proceed to scan the local area, then hit a brick wall. There appears […]